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Toastmasters and typically more in-depth. • You and a friend can be the sponsors
Toastmaster magazine put it this way: • District 7 needs more new clubs!

As we grow in our Toastmasters experience, we Here are some advanced/specialty club ideas:
sometimes see the need for a greater challenge. • Humor and Drama Toastmasters
And that frequently involves receiving a stronger • Debate Club
level of feedback after our speeches. If that sounds • Advanced listening and critical analysis

like you, then you might want to consider joining • Parliamentary Procedure
an advanced club. • Master Trainers
The main difference between a basic and an • Bilingual
advanced club is the level or type of feedback. Consider starting with why. Why would you

Bill Brown DTM, Toastmasters Magazine, 8,2018 want to start a new club? Simon Sinek’s Start
Here are the benefits as you ponder starting with Why (2009) encourages readers to start
an advanced club: understanding their ‘why.’ If you know the why,
• More advanced learning in the District you can do the what. The reason must be strong

• Education taken to the next level. like it was when you first started in Toastmasters.
• You can mold a club the way you want You started because you wanted to learn how to
• It’s fun to start a new club! stand up in front of others and speak confidently
• Toastmasters International is waiving without fear. The same passion can be used to

the charter and new member fees until start your next new club! Why not? All the help
06/30/21! you need is available.
• We have three more months to start a Call or email your Club Growth Director cgd@
new club! d7toastmasters.org and get started!

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