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Why is being a Distinguished Club so important?
Ask any club members why they joined and most likely at least 95% will say they joined to become better speakers. Our Club's purpose is to provide the environment in which members learn speaking skills. When our Club
provides plenty of speaking opportunities for members, members
receive helpful evaluations, and there are enough members to conduct the program, members learn what they joined our Club to learn.
The Distinguished Club Program helps our Club accomplish its purpose by focusing on two areas:
Educational Awards: The number of Competent Communicator (CC), Advanced Communicator-Bronze (ACB), Advanced Communicator-Silver (ACS), Advanced Communicator-Gold (ACG), Competent Leader (CL), Advanced Leader-Bronze (ALB), Advanced Leader-Silver (ALS), and Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) awards issued to members determine our Club's success in helping our members learn not only speaking skills but leadership skills as well.
Membership: In order to properly conduct the educational program, a Club should have at least 20 members. Membership turnover is unavoidable as members move, change jobs, or encounter other situations that take them away from the Club. Our Club should continually strive to bring in new members to combat the natural turnover, to provide a stronger leadership base, and to bring a flow of fresh, new ideas and personalities.
How it works?
The Distinguished Club Program is an annual program, running from July 1 through June 30. The program consists of 10 goals our Club should strive to achieve. World Headquarters tracks the progress of your Club toward these goals throughout the year. At year end, WHQ calculates the number of goals our Club achieved and recognizes it as a Distinguished Club, Select Distinguished Club or President's Distinguished Club based on the number of goals achieved and the number of members we have.
Recognition Levels
Achieve 5 goals - Distinguished Club
Achieve 7 goals - Select Distinguished Club
Achieve 9 goals - President's Distinguished Club
Awards
If our club earns recognition as a Distinguished, Select Distinguished, or President's Distinguished Club, World Headquarters will send our president an attractive ribbon for display on our club banner and a congratulatory letter. The ribbon and letter will be included with the year-end report.
Goals to Achieve:
- Two CCs
- Two additional CCs
- One ACB, ACS or ACG
- One additional ACB, ACS or ACG
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One CL, ALB, ALS or DTM
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One additional CL, ALB, ALS or DTM
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Four new members
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Four additional new members
- Minimum of 4 Club Officers trained during each of two training periods
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One membership dues report and one Club Officer list submitted on time
In addition, our Club MUST meet a membership requirement. At year-end (June 30) we must have:
- at least
20 members OR
- net growth of at least five new members |
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