Completion requirements
If your meetings are only turning out five or six people, it can be pretty demoralizing. This entire program is designed to get and retain members, so find out what you need to watch for here.
3. What Factors Should You Watch For?
Toastmasters International recommends the following standards:
- Maintain a minimum of 20 or more members.
- As noted, this should be a minimum goal. The RDG marketing program is meant to help your club reach into the 30s.
- Work to retain members.
- This is usually a side-effect of other actions.
- Actively promote your club in the community or within the sponsoring organization.
- How to do this will be covered in RDG Marketing.
- Continually plan varied and exciting club meetings.
- This is covered more in MoT #4.
- Recognize Toastmasters who sponsor new members.
- Not enough clubs do this; usually because it's not remembered. An easy way to facilitate this is to make sure the sponsor information on new member applications gives sponsors proper credit; after sponsoring a certain amount of members, they'll get an award.
- Participate regularly in membership-building programs.
- Once you have a year-round marketing plan and execute on it, this will automatically be satisfied.