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You Can’t Tell a Book (or Toastmasters Club) by the Cover
Paul Fanning, DTM - Club Coach Coordinator
year to two years to discover for yourself what If your club membership is 12 or less, and
can be done to help you to not only grow your desire to increase your numbers, become a
membership, to create a positive membership distinguished club, or just need help figuring out
experience for your club and to guide you to a the how’s and why’s, then please request a club
quality club program that leads to distinguished coach. Just email me at coaches@d7toastmasters.
club status. What the coach is not is a dictator com and I will be pleased to send you a club
coming to tell you how to run your club, nor to coach request form.
serve as a club officer, but to serve as a resource, “We live to serve” was a motto that was shared
guide, friend, and help you “write” on the blank with me in another organization. The success of
pages. your club, the positive membership experience,
Toastmasters is the cover. Your club is and the quality program you deliver is all part
the pages, chapters, and appendices that you of our service through Toastmasters. Each
compose your volume of leadership, evaluation, district, division, and area director shares this
and public speaking upon. However, there is one goal and watchword. We are here to (happily)
major caveat—we will not appoint a club coach help. Contact us.
for you without your approval or agreement to And by the way—looking for a great holiday
have one. It would be counter-productive to just gift for a friend or your club? My new book,
send someone to you. Like all good writing, you All I Know About Coaching A Toastmasters Club
,will need to put a little effort into the process. will be out by November. It’s an impressively
We currently have a list of over 40 clubs that red-bound book. The cover is designed with
could use a club coach .We have experienced gold-embossed-letters. Surely this is the book
Toastmasters available to be coaches—and more for you . . .
soon to join us on the list.
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