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Toastmasters Education Program
TOASTMASTERS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
Communication and Leadership Skills Development
The educational system is the heart of every Toastmasters club. It provides members with a proven curriculum that develops communication and leadership skills one step at a time, with many opportunities for awards and recognition along the way. The communication and leadership tracks are not mutually exclusive; you may participate in both at the same time, if you wish.
- You progress along each track by working through a series of manuals, each of which offers a set of carefully crafted projects to complete.
- Each project includes an evaluation guide, which gives club members an easy way to provide immediate feedback as the project is completed.
- Once you become a member, you can begin the educational program right away.
The New Member Kit includes the following manuals to get you started in both tracks:
- Competent Communication
- Competent Leadership
- Your Speaking Voice
- Effective Evaluation
- Gestures: Your Body Speaks
COMMUNICATION TRACK
Members who wish to focus on communication skills begin with the Competent Communication manual that’s included in the New Member Kit. Once they have completed this manual, they can progress to the Advanced Communication Series.
Members who wish to focus on communication skills begin with the Competent Communication manual that’s included in the New Member Kit. Once they have completed this manual, they can progress to the Advanced Communication Series.
Competent Communication manual
The 10 speech projects in this manual will help you develop your speaking skills one step at a time. When you finish all of the projects, you are eligible for Competent Communicator (CC) recognition. Complete the CC application in the manual and ask your vice president education to submit it online to World Headquarters. You'll receive a CC certificate and, if this is your first CC award, twoAdvanced Communication Series manuals free of charge.
The 10 speech projects in this manual will help you develop your speaking skills one step at a time. When you finish all of the projects, you are eligible for Competent Communicator (CC) recognition. Complete the CC application in the manual and ask your vice president education to submit it online to World Headquarters. You'll receive a CC certificate and, if this is your first CC award, twoAdvanced Communication Series manuals free of charge.
Advanced Communication Series
After receiving CC recognition, you can work in the Advanced Communication Series manuals, where you’ll refine and enhance your speaking skills and become eligible for Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB), Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS) and Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG) recognition. There are 15 manuals, each containing five speech projects. Many of the manuals are career-oriented. You choose the manuals you want to complete and the skills you want to learn.
After receiving CC recognition, you can work in the Advanced Communication Series manuals, where you’ll refine and enhance your speaking skills and become eligible for Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB), Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS) and Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG) recognition. There are 15 manuals, each containing five speech projects. Many of the manuals are career-oriented. You choose the manuals you want to complete and the skills you want to learn.
Of course, the Toastmasters educational program only makes sense from a club perspective. Speaking and leadership skills cannot be learned in isolation; to get the full benefit of the Toastmasters experience, you have to join a club!
LEADERSHIP TRACK
Members working in the leadership track learn and practice leadership skills by serving in club roles.
The Competent Leadership manual is the core of the leadership track. It features 10 projects, listed below under "Prepared Speeches" which you complete while serving in various club meeting roles. An evaluator will give you feedback on each project, helping you to improve. When you complete the manual, you are eligible for Competent Leader recognition. Complete the CL application in the manual and ask your vice president education to submit it online to World Headquarters. You'll receive a CL certificate and, if you wish, World Headquarters will send your employer a letter about your accomplishment.
Advanced Leader Program
After earning the CL award you can further refine and develop your leadership skills by working in the advanced leader program. Members working in this program are eligible for Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) and Advanced Leader Silver (ALS) recognition
Members working in the leadership track learn and practice leadership skills by serving in club roles.
The Competent Leadership manual is the core of the leadership track. It features 10 projects, listed below under "Prepared Speeches" which you complete while serving in various club meeting roles. An evaluator will give you feedback on each project, helping you to improve. When you complete the manual, you are eligible for Competent Leader recognition. Complete the CL application in the manual and ask your vice president education to submit it online to World Headquarters. You'll receive a CL certificate and, if you wish, World Headquarters will send your employer a letter about your accomplishment.
Advanced Leader Program
After earning the CL award you can further refine and develop your leadership skills by working in the advanced leader program. Members working in this program are eligible for Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) and Advanced Leader Silver (ALS) recognition
PREPARED SPEECHES
To become a competent and confident speaker you need a particular set of skills. The Toastmasters Competent Communication manual delivers these skills in a set of 10 Speeches. These speeches can be on any subject that the speaker chooses, but the material should be chosen to support the objective of the exercise.
A brief synopsis of each speech project is given below.
1 The Ice Breaker
The purpose of this exercise is to help other members get to know you and for you to discover what skills you already have and how to begin improving.
2 Organize Your Speech
All Good speeches have a captivating beginning and end. Couple this with a clear flow of ideas and good transitions from one idea to the next and you are on your way to creating great speeches.
3 Get To The Point
In order to hold an audience a speech must be informative and entertaining. It must also have a point to it in this project you learn how to construct a speech with a specific idea in mind and to build a speech that supports the purpose at hand.
4 How To Say It
Here you learn how to make the language more interesting and to paint word pictures. Think how much better it is to say, “Samantha reclined on the lush emerald meadow and gazed vacantly at the cloudless azure sky” rather than “Samantha lay down and stared into space”
5 Your Body Speaks
The use of gestures and facial expressions enhances what you say and assists the audience to understand. Making eye contact with the audience makes them feel included. Learning how to make all of this appear natural is another key to quality speaking.
6 Vocal Variety
Speaking is not just about what we say, it is very much about how we say it. Project 6 helps us to understand the usefulness of changing volume, pitch and pace to enhance the message. You will also learn the use of the pause to add drama to your message.
7 Research Your Topic
Facts and anecdotal evidence give the speaker a degree of authority and lead the audience to trust the presenter and therefore feel more comfortable. This exercise is all about gathering those facts and putting them together in an interesting manner so that the audience are entertained as well as educated.
8 Get Comfortable With Visual Aids
“ A picture paints a thousand words” Visual aids such as charts and graphs can get figures across in a fraction of the time explaining them takes. How much easier is it to understand a product when you are looking at it rather than listening to its description? When you tackle this exercise you will use at least 2 different visual aids to enhance your speech.
9 Persuade With Power
Learning the techniques of using logic and emotion to convince people that your view point is the correct one can be a very rewarding experience. On completion of your 9th project you will have had the opportunity to get people to listen to your view on a topic and influence their opinion.
10 Inspire Your Audience
The final step on the journey to the Competent Communicator award. Use all the skills you have learned in earlier projects to deliver a powerful speech which captivates an audience and inspires them to a course of action. This may seem like a distant dream before you join toastmasters, but thousands of people achieve this goal every year.
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