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BurnsMasters Toastmasters: 90 days to Charter Status (Part 3)

Marv Serhan, DTM

When Marv Serhan was asked to serve as the sponsor for a new corporate club in Vancouver, Washington, he elected to apply a project management approach on how that club establishment and charter would take
place. Parts I and II outlined the first series of key tasks in the project plan. Part III will present five additional key steps that helped to keep this project moving forward toward charter status. All projects are team
efforts and this club-charter initiative was certainly that with Patrick Locke, DTM, Bob Hall, EH5, and Greg Hawkins, MS3 coming aboard as co-sponsor and mentors to support this project.

Plan and conduct a Toastmasters
demonstration meeting
After laying the foundation for

the new club by earning leadership’s
support, marketing the value of
Toastmasters to internal staff,
preparing for a meeting location, time/

date, identifying key interim officers,
and starting the cross-functional role
training, the staff is now ready for a
Toastmaster demonstration meeting.

The lead sponsor is responsible for
this event.
Besides his mentors and sponsors,
the lead sponsor must select current

Toastmasters to join the demo team
who will provide the best possible
representation of the learning value
that is generated through a well-

managed TM meeting agenda. The
graphic depicts the functionary role
assignments used to support the
BurnsMasters demonstration meeting.

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