Clubs sometimes underestimate the importance of retaining members. There are several reasons why focusing on retaining members is critical to your club's success.

Tenured members...

1) Serve as important role models for newer members.

2) Provide incentive to guests that the club has quality and experienced members that they'll be able to learn from.

3) Prove that Toastmasters is not an overnight process but an ongoing process for continual self-improvement.

Tips for retaining tenured members:

• Recruit them to be mentors for new members.
  
  
• Publicly recognize achievements such as attaining ACB, ALS, DTM, etc.
  
  
• Encourage participation in Toastmasters contests.
  
  
• Encourage full-length advanced manual speeches. If advanced members need to perform longer speeches to grow, encourage them to do so. Consider having an advanced manual speech meeting or a speak-a-thon periodically, where multiple longer speeches are expected. Be creative. But the important thing is to accommodate!
  
  
• Encourage leadership outside the club. Suggest that more experienced members serve the district as an Area Governor or other district officer.  Many seasoned Toastmasters continue as members just to help others. Serving in a district capacity does just that at an even higher level.