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SUCCESSFUL CLUB

Defining Success

at Babble-On

PJ Kleffner, DTM

There are many ways to define success—a nice achieved Select Distinguished status our first full
home, car, good job, and retirement nest egg. year in existence. We have earned President’s
When I see my brother-in-law, he simply asks, Distinguished Club status every year since 2005.
“Are you happy?”, because none of those material Other Toastmasters ask how we achieve

things matter unless you are happy. One of success—looking for the magic or secret sauce.
the ways we define success at Babble-On is our The simple answer is “We work the Toastmasters
impact on others. program.”
As servant leaders, we succeed by helping our That means:

individual members succeed. The Distinguished • All speeches are manual speeches.
Club Program is our “report card” on how well • Officers attend Toastmasters Leadership
we met the ten goals given to us each year by Institute (TLI).
Toastmasters International. Our individual • We develop a Club Success Plan at the

members must meet their educational goals for beginning of the year and identify who
us to meet our club goals. will complete the various educational
Babble-On chartered on March 31, 2004. We awards for DCP credit.
• We strive to achieve all 10

goals by April 1st, so we have
three months to adjust if
anything goes wrong. (Credit to
Scott Stevenson for that idea.)

• Our VP Membership follows
up with every visitor, usually
with a personal phone call.
• We vote in new members

and assign them mentors.
• We participate in Area,
Division and District level
speech contests.

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