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Looking Good!
by John Rodke, DTM—Program Quality Director
Pathways Club Officer Training
Your enthusiastic engagement with our new Club Officer Training has been going well.
Pathways education program has been awesome! Thank you for all of the officers and future
This opportunity for growth has been, and will officers who have attended these events. I hope
continue to be, transformational. Thank you to you are employing the information you were
all of the clubs who have adapted to coordinate presented to help your clubs become even
with our Pathways Guides to arrange visits and stronger. Reach out to your Area Directors if you
demonstrations. We appreciate your flexibility, have not had the opportunity to be trained for
openness, and support. For those clubs who have your role. The strongest clubs have all 7 officers
not scheduled your visits, please reach out to trained every 6 months. I am hearing dynamic
your Area Director to help coordinate with your success from officers who have utilized assistants
assigned Pathways Guide. to help them rock their roles. I encourage you
Learning about Pathways from this excellent to empower the next set of leaders within your
slate of Guides will help you and your club thrive club. Oh yeah, they are encouraged to attend
in this new education program. There is no wait- trainings as well.
and-see period for new members coming in. Toastmasters Convention Streaming Video
Embracing this opportunity will help you I invite you to check out the events of the
become confident in the new program, and World Championship of Public Speaking at the
capable of helping new members quickly Toastmasters International convention from
gain the maximum value from their time in August 24th-26th. You can view many of the
Toastmasters. Larry West had an excellent idea events online. We have a huge contingent from
to use this program as a relaunch for his smaller District 7 attending, to root for our very own
and struggling clubs. They are building energy Quint Crispin as he competes to become the
around this new opportunity and reaching out next World Champion!
to past members to help add more value to their
lives.
Speak on!
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