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I’ll share our progress and success with the Denver meaningful ROI considerations. Obtaining the

office and will encourage management to get a buy-in and support of the local decision maker
Toastmaster club going in Denver! is critical to club success as was the case with
Thanks again for your support and feedback. This Rick Nye at BurnsMasters.
energizes us to do better.
Rick Nye

Department Manager Part II will offer additional project tasks
Burns & McDonnell used to sponsor and prepare the BurnsMasters
Vancouver, WA” Toastmasters club in Vancouver, WA to achieve

charter status in a timely manner.
Finally, it is important to emphasize that Marv Serhan, Captain, U.S. Navy (Retired) has
one segment of the discussion with Rick Nye been a member of Toastmasters since 1999. He earned
focused on the business value of Toastmasters DTMs in 2007 and in 2020. He is the founder and

as a professional development curriculum. past-president of Professionally Speaking TM-3091 in
Specifically,BurnsMasters members are Vancouver, WA. As Area 81 Director within Division
primarily electrical engineers. Their excitement G, Marv was selected as the District 7 Area Director of
about the TM learning experience will make the Year for the 2018-2019 cycle. If you have questions,

them better communicators with their colleagues Marv can be reached at marv@marvserhan.com. His
and with internal and external company website is www.marvserhan.com
stakeholders – particularly their customers.
Better communications lead to customer Your Next Speech

clarity, understanding, mutual professional
respect, and brand loyalty. Yes, these values are How about you? Are you up for a speech? Or are
intangibles and difficult to quantify, but Return you nervous and worried it will suck like a leech?
on Investment (ROI) in business often is the result You need not have worry, you should not despair.

of customers willingly working with corporate Just let it rip with your usual flair.
representatives whom they trust not merely The audience will cheer! They will applaud your
because of what they say, but because their actions great prowess! Your evaluator will think
your a god, or even a goddess.
mirror their promises. Businesses often have a Your journey to excellence you will feel with amaze,

significant portion of their budget dedicated to after all you are signed up for
employee Professional Development training. Toastmasters Pathways.
The Toastmaster experience offers a key learning So just like a squirrel, you should give it a twirl. You
opportunity to enhance any professional will sigh with relief, and perhaps discover

development initiative. Have that conversation a great pearl.
and stress that significant benefit associated with ~Jack Standeven, DTM
Toastmasters. If you have personal examples,
offer those for they often can be translated into

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