The Distinguished Club program is in short are the goals that we have each year as a club. There is a Distinguished club Report that is on Toastmasters International Website and is updated throughout the year. This is a tool we as a club use to track our progress on a variety of goals. You can see with this report, here for reference, what we are looking at and that we get points for achieved goals.
The report is fairly self explanatory. For example the first Goal is Level 1 Awards. When our club members have achieved 4 level one's in the Pathways program we will achieve that goal. It goes down the list Level 2's and so on. There are other areas in this list for membership, Training, and administrative things.
The different awards for achieving these goals is listed in the upper right of the report.
Distinguished = 5 Goals met
Select Distinguished = 7 Goals met
Presidents Distinguished = 9 Goals met
In the Upper Center of the report is a membership block. Requirements for this are a membership of 20 or net growth of 3 new members. Our club will need to have 20 members Coincidentally we are at 17 so I suppose we need both net growth of 3 as well.
When the club is recognized by the district as distinguished they will send us a ribbon that we will place on our club banner. If you look at the banner you will see many ribbons that recognizing decades of toastmasters achievements. This is not just about the ribbon. It is a recognition of the hard work and effort that all of you as members have put in over the year. It is also the sign of a healthy club. We have struggled the last few years with the membership piece. We seem to regularly achieve many goals, even to the presidents distinguished level but just fall a little short on the 20 members needed to qualify. I say let's shoot for Presidents distinguished this year and more than 20 members in the club! I look forward to a great year fellow Pioneer Toastmasters!
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