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Club Plan, but you can roll all of this into one easy D is for DREAM. Before you even open the
set of initials D.E.P.O.T. If you follow this helpful booklet or workbook and begin filling out the
tool, your Club (the “train,”) will pull into the 25 pages of questions, take a moment as the
“depot” on June 30, 2023 on-time, a Distinguished Club executive committee to dream. Without

Club, and be successful in membership growth, being numerically specific, what does your Club
education awards, and program administration. want to do this program year? Is there one event
Your Club-wide goals can be achieved as well item you want to address this year? Do you need
as your members’ individual goals for the year. more time for speeches, or perhaps learn more

Your Club will be honored by Toastmasters as about the art of evaluation? Do you want to
either a Distinguished, Select Distinguished or conduct vibrant Club meetings with themes, or
Presidents Distinguished Club. Check with your hold a bang-up and spot-on open house? Need
Area Director if you need more information on leadership training? All of these items you can

how to become a Distinguished Club. dream about and should be considered.
What does D.E.P.O.T. stand for? The five Now that your locomotive is chugging down
initials represent the process of helping your the rails to the ultimate D.E.P.O.T., employ next
Club discover, process, and achieve your Club’s your E for EVALUATE by looking at the past

goals using the dream, evaluate, plan, organize, program year. What worked? What didn’t? Do
and track method. you have enough Club members? Were your
If you have not thus far worked on a Club education goals met and achieved? Once you
Success Plan, it is a tool and workbook (found have taken inventory of your successes, not-so-

online) to help your Club over the next program wonderful misses, and areas you never got
year. The process can appear overwhelming, But around to this past year, you can begin to outline
as the pygmy told the explorer, “You can eat a possible goals for the upcoming year.
whole elephant one bite at a time.” Too often a Club’s “engine” is “derailed” by

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