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FIELD NOTES

Professionally Speaking Toastmasters
Expectations of Success

Suzanne Loeb, DTM - Division G Director

Imagine stepping into a new Toastmasters Club anyone. Furthermore, this was a well-run, hybrid

meeting. Listening, you hear upbeat enthusiasm meeting.
and an unspoken camaraderie. You sense a I had plenty of questions:
confident ‘we-have-this-covered’ vibe. Then, • Is there a secret sauce for success?
precisely at the appointed time, the President • How does the Club get this level of

opens the meeting, the group synchronizes, and commitment and engagement from
they take off together like a Swiss train, hitting members?
all stations on time. • Why does this group of people work so
I witnessed a Professionally Speaking well together?

Toastmasters meeting as a visitor and was On December 14, I sat down with Mark
impressed. I saw the Toastmaster set a nice pace Phillips, President of Professionally Speaking
through three speeches, three evaluations, a Toastmasters, looking for answers. But, of course,
satisfying round of Table Topics, good robust from its beginning, I knew that Professionally

reporting, all accomplished within an hour. Speaking has always been among the top clubs
There is no noticeable stress or sweating from in District 7.
But the answers I learned
from Mark were simple,

straightforward, and no,
there were no secrets.
First, there is no secret
sauce.

“Success comes from the
expectation of excellence” -
Mark Phillip
Mark laughed and

assured me; there was no
secret sauce.
He explained how
Professionally Speaking

Toastmasters established
its tradition of excellence.

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