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CALLING ALL CANDIDATES
by Scott Stevenson, DTM - District Leadership Chair
It’s that time of
year when members
of the district should
be thinking about
how they can make
a positive difference
in their careers and
personal objectives. One of the ways to help
yourself with your planning is to consider how
much your Toastmasters membership is helping
with your career goals.
Through Toastmasters, you have learned managing the district’s day-to-day operations,
how to better express yourself, gained more finances and human resources. Fortunately,
confidence in your ability to communicate and you have a team of district leaders to help you
lead, and the organization continues to help you fulfill these responsibilities. You must empower
improve your skills in those fields. your district leadership team members to work
But Toastmasters, like all organizations larger together toward the district mission, while
than a single person, cannot function without supporting each one in his or her develop¬ment
a leadership team in place. In our district, we as a leader. Together with your district leader-
elect a new leadership team each and every year, ship team, you participate in District Leader
and it is time to start thinking about your role Training, Mid-year Training and online
in all of this. We need you and your leadership training via the District Leader Tutorials on the
skills to help us continue to make District 7 one Toastmasters International website. To serve as
of the premier districts within Toastmasters district director, you must have served at least
International. six consecutive months as a club president and
As seen by the list below, we have a number at least 12 consecutive months as a program
of offices that need to be filled before our new quality director, club growth director or division
Toastmasters year begins on July 1, 2017. Please director, or a combination thereof at the time
look at the list and decide how you might you take office.
best serve the district during the 2017-2018 Program Quality Director—As the program
Toastmasters year. Also consider other members quality director, you are responsible for all
that you might know who would be a good fit for aspects of education and training within the
a district office.
district.
The Process This includes supporting quality club
The D7 Nominating Form (found HERE) can programming efforts, promoting the Distinguished
be used to nominate yourself or someone else Club Program and planning, organizing and
for one or more district offices. There will also executing the district confer¬ence. Together with
be an opportunity to announce your candidacy your district leadership team, you participate in
at TLI in February, 2017 or send an email to the District Leader Training, Mid-year Training and
District Leadership Chair (scott19770@gmail.com) online training via the District Leader Tutorials
to announce your candidacy. on the Toastmasters International website. To
The following positions will be elected at the be program quality director, you must have
2017 District 7 Spring Conference: served at least six consecutive months as club
District Director—As the district director, president and at least 12 consecutive months as
you are responsible for directly overseeing and a program quality
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