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                                  From Bust to Boom: The Greatest Recovery Story Ever Told





                                                                                                     Sudhir Gautam,DL4











      It was a mid-February morning and I woke up a  members could pop in and test out their zoom
      little drunk from all the power that comes with  meeting setup and get familiar with it.
      being a new TI club President. So far I had this           On March 26th, we had our first official virtual
      blasé “impeach me if you can” attitude towards  meeting. It was fun and flawless.

      my job but that morning I realized that I had to           In the first week of April, I did
      do something to even get impeached. I quickly  a club performance appraisal and
      put together our 2020 club vision, which I shared  sounded an existential threat
      with club members later that week. It was well  alarm to our leadership

      received and upon a quick psychic poll, the data  team. After the initial denial
      was clear - it was the best TI club vision ever  phase, we all agreed to come up
      presented in the history of all TI clubs. It was a  with some concrete measures to
      humbling experience.                                   overcome this threat.

          Here’s the club vision we came up with:            By mid-May we were
                                                             flourishing like a
          To create a welcoming and fun                      N95 mask during
          place that guarantees measurable                   a pandemic.
          growth for every club member.                      Memberships

                                                             were up, virtual meetings were fun and well
          We decided to use three tools to achieve this  attended, and people were learning new skills.
      vision:                                                All the while, there was talk of merging all the

      •  Personal SMART (a well-known acronym)  other clubs in the area because they were having
          goals                                              serious membership challenges.
      •  Mentorship partners                                     I live in Ashland so I burnt sage. My tarot
      •  Pathways enrollment                                 cards told me what you’d be thinking at this

          We were off to a great start. And then Covid-19  point—how did you do all this, Mr. President?
      happened. By mid-March we had already                      First of all, I didn’t do it alone. We did it
      initiated virtual meeting trials. These were a  (wink-wink)!
      series of six open-house style trials in which             These are some of the actions that took




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