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Who’s YOUR Club Champion?
Leanna Lindquist, DTM
Club champions are easy to identify. If their
names don’t jump out at you, make some provides the encouragement,
observations at your next Club meeting. Who do
your Club members look to for answers? Who
does everyone listen to? Has your Club run into
a few challenges? Who stepped up with a plan,
encouragement, and support?
Club champions fill Club meeting roles away. She sits
and officer roles when no one else will. When
something needs to be done, no matter how
small or how large, the Club champion will step
up. And will do what needs to be done and do
it well.
Does someone now come to mind? More than
one? If you answered yes, your Club is lucky.
Treasure your champion. Thank your champion.
Make your champion feel appreciated.
When I think about a Club champion, Lisa
Hutton comes to mind. Lisa has been a member
of Marylhurst Toastmasters Club for almost
ten years. She loves our Club. We are family.
We know it. Guests comment on it. Like with
any family, someone is the glue who holds it
together. Lisa is our glue. This year she is our
VP Membership. Her immediate responses to
emails bring potential members through our
virtual door. She welcomes guests and invites
them to come back. She keeps guests on a list
and emails the Zoom link out every week.
Lisa will make house calls to help members
navigate Pathways. She doesn’t want anyone in
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our family to feel left out. She
the patience, and the help they
need.
I have noticed that many
times Lisa doesn’t sign up for
a meeting role right
back, gives
others a
chance, then
fills in where she
is most needed. The same goes
for Club officer roles. Lisa has
been a Club officer for as long
as I can remember. She served
as president two different times
when no one stepped up. She
waited for someone to take
advantage of the opportunity
and when that didn’t happen, she
volunteered.
It is in our Club DNA to be
President’s Distinguished. We
have been for the last 14 years.
We have struggled from time to
time with our membership numbers. Lisa keeps
an eye on them. She lets us know when we need
to step it up.
When Scott Stevenson retired from
Toastmasters, Lisa took over his role as