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Candidate for Division G Director
David Shehorn, ACS, ALB
As a district, we are constantly faced with the challenges presented with the chartering of
new clubs and the demise of existing clubs. My urgency for the next year is to increase the
focus of our training to include support for existing clubs by providing more opportunities
to learn from our success and our failures. One area of focus will be to implement a specific
training for club mentors, coaches and sponsors. I will be calling on previous leaders to
participate in mentoring within this structure. For instance in District 7, we currently have 3
times as many requests for club coaches compared to available coaches.
Additionally, I will focus my energy to cultivating the leadership potential of current club
members. We can better emphasize the individual career advantages afforded by Toastmasters
leadership projects citing specific examples of challenges and success. Many companies do not
provide in-house management training programs. That is a strength of Toastmasters -- we can
be there for the employees of the companies who do not provide the extensive management
training opportunities. It is more important now than ever before.
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