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BurnsMasters Toastmasters: 90 days to Charter Status (Part 1)

Marv Serhan, DTM

reaching “charter” status is merely a project There are many resources available at
milestone. Chartering marks the beginning of toastmasters.org/Start-a-club. Your research will
a never-ending journey in search of excellence generate ideas that will enable you to tailor your

in Toastmaster-club management. Without strategy to more precisely align with the needs
that constant focus on improvement, club of the organization you are seeking to support.
sustainability can be placed in jeopardy. As such, Item 218H would be a good place to start.
club leadership and its members cannot rest on
past laurels; it is their responsibility to live up Write a ‘new-club’ project-implementation
to their “Toastmaster Promise” to keep their plan that includes a macro and micro

club healthy and strong. With that in mind, the listing of all tasks, milestones, and
following information may be of benefit to those deliverables necessary to achieve club
who assume club sponsor, mentor, or coaching charter status. Seek to prioritize each
assignments. Here are those considerations entry.

listed as tasks, milestones, or deliverables within One does not need a Microsoft Project
an informal project-management approach to software application to develop such a project

new-club establishment: plan. A simple Excel file could be used to
identify/list all the activities, administrative
Review the various resources at TMI’s steps, equipment requirements, training needs,
website for “Starting a New Club.” marketing strategies, file-sharing priorities,

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