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set goals and develop Toastmaster awards. This will also command a
plans and success lot of our energy, but at least we knew this was
strategies for next year. coming (unlike COVID-19).

COVID-19 has forced Now that we’re transitioning from one
us to look at program year to the next, I ask you these
questions:
• How did your year go?

• What lessons did you learn from the
Toastmasters ordeals we experienced together?
in a whole new way. Now • Drawing from what you learned, what will
that so many of our clubs have you do differently next year?

experienced the joys and trials of Have fun celebrating your successes and
meeting online, I don’t know that learning from your failures, and let’s be ready
we can ever go back totally to the ways we for a great new year to come.
did things before. We will need to support

online participation for so many more clubs
now, and we will be up to the challenge! We
also have to implement strategies for adapting
to a landscape where Pathways is the ONLY

educational program—the days of using paper
Competent Communicator and Aadvanced
Communicator manuals will be gone for good
with the exception of those working to finish

their High Performance Leadership projects and
the club sponsor/mentor/coach requirements of
their Advanced Leader Silver and Distinguished

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