Toastmasters International offers two beginning manuals, the Competent Communicator and the Competent Leadership. The Competent Leadership manual contains ten projects to help develop comprehensive leadership skills.
Leadership skills are learned in every meeting role, however you choose which roles you complete to finish the different projects. There are requirements for marking off a role for a project. Each meeting that you fill a role can only count for one project. Example: Critical thinking and giving feedback require the same roles, however if you are grammarian on August 9th you can only count that for one project not both.
Projects include skills such as listening, motivation, and time management. Some projects require meeting roles, such as being timer for time management. Others require you to help lead a extra role such as organizing a contest speech. Others, such as Mentoring, require you to help other members complete speeches or complete leadership projects.
Just like the Competent Communicator, once you have completed the ten projects Toastmasters International can send your employer a letter with your accomplishment. From there, Toastmasters has more manuals tracks that you can continue building your leadership skills. The Advanced Leadership Bronze and Silver. At the end of these manuals, including the communication series, you will receive the Distinguished Toastmaster award.
Friday, March 31, 2017
About the Competent Communicator
The Toastmasters program helps you through manuals such as the Competent Communicator, but is not a formal course such as Communications 111. There are no grades or tests, but instead you have Table Topics and the Ice Breaker Speech. Club meetings help you to work together to study and practice your communication and leadership skills.
You can work with introductions, perform roles during club meetings, and work on projects, such as the ten speech projects in the Competent Communicator. In this manual you build speaking skills with each new project. Most of the speeches are five to seven minutes focusing on a single skill. It works on everything from organization, to body language, to researching a topic. This will help you learn to speak with clarity and confidence.
With each speech you give, you will be evaluated to help you grow and learn. They will point out strengths and offer suggestions on how to improve the speech. This manual focuses on the basics of public speaking, and your evaluator will focus on the basics as well. If you are working on vocal variety for your speech, they will also focus on it when giving your evaluation. The manual will help you gain the skills through it's ten projects, then you will receive the Competent Communicator Award.
Want to learn more than just the basics? There are plenty more manuals for communication that you can work on, ranging from storytelling, to career related learning. After you have finished the manual, Toastmasters International will send a letter to your employer if you wish them to, notifying them of your achievement. This is especially nice if your work has a program to pay for you to be in Toastmasters.
You can work with introductions, perform roles during club meetings, and work on projects, such as the ten speech projects in the Competent Communicator. In this manual you build speaking skills with each new project. Most of the speeches are five to seven minutes focusing on a single skill. It works on everything from organization, to body language, to researching a topic. This will help you learn to speak with clarity and confidence.
With each speech you give, you will be evaluated to help you grow and learn. They will point out strengths and offer suggestions on how to improve the speech. This manual focuses on the basics of public speaking, and your evaluator will focus on the basics as well. If you are working on vocal variety for your speech, they will also focus on it when giving your evaluation. The manual will help you gain the skills through it's ten projects, then you will receive the Competent Communicator Award.
Want to learn more than just the basics? There are plenty more manuals for communication that you can work on, ranging from storytelling, to career related learning. After you have finished the manual, Toastmasters International will send a letter to your employer if you wish them to, notifying them of your achievement. This is especially nice if your work has a program to pay for you to be in Toastmasters.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Next Weeks Schedule
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Dave is the Toastmaster of the day being evaluated by Laurie. There is one speaker since it is a business meeting. Paul is speaking, and being evaluated by Brian. River is the Table Topics master of the day, with Peter as grammarian and Lee as timer. *No openings
April Fools Table Topics
March 28th meeting
We would like to thank everyone who volunteered for a position, especially Laimons and Viki who were given jobs as they sat down to have breakfast.
Peter was the Toastmaster of the Day, giving us the history of April Fools day. He talked about how April 1st used to be the first day of the year, until we switched which calendar we used to make January the first month. Therefore people who had not changed over to the new schedule were fools. Paul was the general evaluator today, who commented on the nice tie in between table topics and the Toastmasters theme.
There were two speakers today. Brian gave his first advanced manual speech called Lost in Translation. He talked about his adventure as a manager for UPS where he had too much money to cross over into Mexico. During his speech, he talked about how usually the boarder patrol into Mexico is relaxed but that day they were alert, so he was searched then sent to another person to search him, then the boss's boss who opened all of his mail and searched through his car after Brian mistakenly said that he had his suitcase, mail and hooker in the car, instead of suitcase, mail and pillow (cohen). Laurie was Brian's evaluator, who asked if you can really evaluate stand-up comedy? She talked about how he brought in his life experience to the story to make it personal and fun. One suggestion Laurie did have was to start when he is ready so he did not use an audible pause to begin his speech.
Lauralee was the second speaker, who lead everyone through a guided imagery session set at the beach. In her speech, Lauralee invited everyone to lean back, relax as we enter into our vacation. She explained what the beach looked and felt like, then used the waves to allow the audience to let go of the worry and stress of life, and focus on the beach. Another thing Lauralee explained was the benefits of guided imagery, such as lowering the blood pressure and cholesterol levels, as well as relieving muscle pain. River was Lauralee's evaluator, who said the speech was very relaxing and painted pictures for everyone to go on a mental vacation.
Lee was in charge of table topics based on April Fools. He asked Brian what he would do with green jello as a practical joke and he said he could think of several morbid jokes he could do with it. Paul said that a practical joke that was played on him was being given a cake made of toilet paper that the group could not cut through. Laurie won Table Topics by using saran wrap in the bathroom as her practical joke, saying April Fools is a reminder that we should not take ourselves so seriously.
Laimons was the timer of the day, and Vicki was the grammarian of the day with the word bilik.
Peter was the Toastmaster of the Day, giving us the history of April Fools day. He talked about how April 1st used to be the first day of the year, until we switched which calendar we used to make January the first month. Therefore people who had not changed over to the new schedule were fools. Paul was the general evaluator today, who commented on the nice tie in between table topics and the Toastmasters theme.
There were two speakers today. Brian gave his first advanced manual speech called Lost in Translation. He talked about his adventure as a manager for UPS where he had too much money to cross over into Mexico. During his speech, he talked about how usually the boarder patrol into Mexico is relaxed but that day they were alert, so he was searched then sent to another person to search him, then the boss's boss who opened all of his mail and searched through his car after Brian mistakenly said that he had his suitcase, mail and hooker in the car, instead of suitcase, mail and pillow (cohen). Laurie was Brian's evaluator, who asked if you can really evaluate stand-up comedy? She talked about how he brought in his life experience to the story to make it personal and fun. One suggestion Laurie did have was to start when he is ready so he did not use an audible pause to begin his speech.
Lauralee was the second speaker, who lead everyone through a guided imagery session set at the beach. In her speech, Lauralee invited everyone to lean back, relax as we enter into our vacation. She explained what the beach looked and felt like, then used the waves to allow the audience to let go of the worry and stress of life, and focus on the beach. Another thing Lauralee explained was the benefits of guided imagery, such as lowering the blood pressure and cholesterol levels, as well as relieving muscle pain. River was Lauralee's evaluator, who said the speech was very relaxing and painted pictures for everyone to go on a mental vacation.
Lee was in charge of table topics based on April Fools. He asked Brian what he would do with green jello as a practical joke and he said he could think of several morbid jokes he could do with it. Paul said that a practical joke that was played on him was being given a cake made of toilet paper that the group could not cut through. Laurie won Table Topics by using saran wrap in the bathroom as her practical joke, saying April Fools is a reminder that we should not take ourselves so seriously.
Laimons was the timer of the day, and Vicki was the grammarian of the day with the word bilik.
Monday, March 27, 2017
Division Contest
The division contest will be on April 22 at University of Oregon from 10-2
Christa and Dave will be competing from Newport Toastmasters! Please join us!
Christa and Dave will be competing from Newport Toastmasters! Please join us!
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