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The Club Coach Program - Benefits to You and Your Club

Eldred Brown, DTM - Club Growth Director

Is your club struggling for members? Does • Is not be suspended or closed
your meeting quality suffer for low attendance • Does not have two coaches assigned

(not enough people to fill all the roles, people To receive a coach, your club President must
serving two or more roles in a meeting)? Are formally request a coach. No coach will be
the members of your club feeling burned out assigned to a club that doesn’t want one.
for taking the same officer roles year after year To request a coach, please contact your

after year? If you can answer yes to all these District Director (Emilie Taylor), your Club
questions, then your club might benefit from Growth Director (myself), or your Club Coach
having a Club Coach or two. Coordinator (Jim Robison). If your Area or
Division Director requests a coach on your club’s
About the Program behalf, we will contact your club President to

The Club Coach Program is a program verify that you really want one. Remember that
Toastmasters offers struggling clubs to help them your club can have two coaches at a time.
rebuild their membership and restore their club
quality. The alternative is usually that a club Club Coach Eligibility Requirements

continues to flounder and may even die. To be eligible to coach a club, you must meet
the following requirements:
Club Eligibility Requirements • Be an experienced Toastmaster in good

To be eligible for a Club Coach, your club standing
must meet the following requirements: • Not already be a member of the club you
• No more than 12 members in good standing want to coach

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