Working on Level One? Start working on this project at home

Level One:
Researching and Presenting:

• This is a good time to complete any research that needs to be done to put together a speech on any topic that you wish. 

Start Your High Performance Leadership Project

High Performance Leadership Project: (Works for Pathways and Legacy)

1. Read the High Performance Leadership manual for their background

2. Come up with an idea for a project (IE: leadership campaign, Speechcraft, Youth Leadership)

3. Recruit a guidance committee to work with you on your project

4. Meet with your guidance committee to go over what you have in mind

5. Create your mission statement, vision, and values. Run these by your committee

6. Present your first speech to your club about your project

7. Create your Roles Goals and Timetable for your project

8. Recruit and Action Team

9. Create your action plan on how you are going to achieve your goals in your time limit

10. Meet with your action team and guidance committee to review your progress and how things are working. Overcome problems, if any, and reevaluate your plan if needed

11. Results: go over your results with your team and evaluate how your plan went

12. Present your results to your club with a speech

Competent Leader Project to Work on At Home

Competent Leader:
Project Six:

• There are many Divisions and Districts that are working to pull off an online competition. You can volunteer to help in one of those contests and get credit for helping organize a speech contest.
• Another option for project six is helping with the online presence of the club. This is a great time to go through the web presence of the club and make sure everything is accurate. 

Project Nine:

• If someone in your club is working on their High Performance Leadership Project, you can volunteer to be a part of it. 

Project Ten:

• If you chair a contest, you can complete project ten in the Competent Leader manual. 
• Another option for completing Project Ten is to serve as the webmaster in your club.

Project to Work on From Home

With the cancellation of clubs everywhere, this can be a great time to start projects that extend over several weeks. Here are a few projects that take an extended amount of time- both for the Legacy and Pathways Program.


Legacy Projects:
Competent Leader:
Project Six:

• There are many Divisions and Districts that are working to pull off an online competition. You can volunteer to help in one of those contests and get credit for helping organize a speech contest.
• Another option for project six is helping with the online presence of the club. This is a great time to go through the web presence of the club and make sure everything is accurate. 

Project Nine:

• If someone in your club is working on their High Performance Leadership Project, you can volunteer to be a part of it. 

Project Ten:

• If you chair a contest, you can complete project ten in the Competent Leader manual. 
• Another option for completing Project Ten is to serve as the webmaster in your club.

High Performance Leadership Project: (Works for Pathways and Legacy)

1. Read the High Performance Leadership manual for their background

2. Come up with an idea for a project (IE: leadership campaign, Speechcraft, Youth Leadership)

3. Recruit a guidance committee to work with you on your project

4. Meet with your guidance committee to go over what you have in mind

5. Create your mission statement, vision, and values. Run these by your committee

6. Present your first speech to your club about your project

7. Create your Roles Goals and Timetable for your project

8. Recruit and Action Team

9. Create your action plan on how you are going to achieve your goals in your time limit

10. Meet with your action team and guidance committee to review your progress and how things are working. Overcome problems, if any, and reevaluate your plan if needed

11. Results: go over your results with your team and evaluate how your plan went

12. Present your results to your club with a speech

Pathways:
Level One:
Researching and Presenting:

• This is a good time to complete any research that needs to be done to put together a speech on any topic that you wish. 

Level Three:

Focus on the Positive:

• This project takes a minimum of two weeks with writing daily in a journal on feelings, what you are grateful for and behavior. 

Level Four:

Manage Projects Successfully:

• For Manage Projects, you will need to decide on a project, which can be used for later projects within your path, and carry it out for whatever length of time you deem appropriate. This project does require collaboration with at least three people. 
• Suggestion for Project: Help plan a contest that is now online
• Suggestion for Project: Lead the club transition to online meetings
• Suggestion for Project: Create a new member packet for your club

Create a Podcast: 

• Record 60 minutes of content for your podcast (in sections or one podcast) and share the podcast with your club. 

Building a Social Media Presence:

• Take this time to either review and enhance or build the social media presence for your club. 

Write a Blog:

• This requires you to write a minimum of 8 blog posts over the span of a month. You may choose to have your blog evaluated by members of the club.

Create a Public Relations Strategy:

• To complete this project, map out a public relations plan which can be used in future projects if desired. 

Level Five:

High Performance Leadership Project (See above)

Leading in Your Volunteer Organization:

• If you have served in a leadership position for six months, or are volunteering in another organization for six months, ask members who have worked with you to fill out the 360 evaluation form. Create a succession plan for the person who will replace you in that position, and reflect on the position that you were in. 

Bonus: 

Level Four

Conduct an Online Meeting

• With many clubs turning to online meetings, you can complete the project for leading an online meeting!

Level Five:

Ethical Leadership Panel

• Moderate a panel for a 20 to 40 minutes discussion on ethics, with a Q&A session. 

Lessons Learned:

• For a project that has already been completed, facilitate a discussion about the project and review how everything was handled. Have each member fill out a 360 evaluation form. 

Moderate a Panel Discussion

• Moderate a panel for 20 to 40 minutes on any topic 

Practicing Public Speaking from Home

With the spread of COVID-19 and the cancellation of in-person meetings, some Toastmasters have been wanting to keep up their skills while on break from regular meetings. There are a variety of ways to continue practicing your public speaking skills at home. Here are five ways to keep your public speaking skills strong during the break.
1. Join an online Toastmasters club
There are several hybrid clubs and online clubs that you can attend while your traditional club is on break. Additionally, your home club could consider moving online during this pandemic.
To look up online Toastmasters clubs, follow this link:  https://www.toastmasters.org/Resources/Online-Clubs-List
2. Start a podcast
One of the projects for Pathways is to start a podcast. This would be a great time to look into how to complete that project. What topic would you want your podcast themed around? How long would you want your podcast to run? The possibilities are endless!
You can see the official Toastmasters podcasts to get some ideas here: https://www.toastmasters.org/resources/news-and-announcements/podcasts
3. Start a blog
While on this break, you could start a blog or a vlog, which is a video based blog. The Toastmasters blog project requires 8 posts within a month. With the break from in person meetings, this is a great time to get started on your blog so you have time to reflect on what you learned.
You can find information on how to create the blog on Pathways.
4. Record Live on Social Media speeches
If you are still on the Legacy program, you can work on the Interpretative Reading manual by reading your selected pieces live on social media, such as Facebook. For the Pathways program, level four has an elective of creating a social media presence.
You can find information on how to use live to continue giving speeches in Pathways or on the traditional program.
5. Write speeches to give to your club later
While on break, you can use this time to read through different projects and brainstorm speeches that would fulfill them. This is a great time to explore the Pathways platform and plan out which speeches you would like to give to complete them.

Roots of Yaquina Toastmasters

Yaquina Toastmasters started on April 1st, 1965. They are a club that is apart of Toastmasters International, an international speaking and leadership organization. Since it's beginning in 1924, Toastmasters International has grown to become a world leader in helping people become more competent and comfortable in front of an audience. Yaquina Toastmasters strives to provide a fun and supportive atmosphere where their members can practice public speaking and leadership skills. This allows their members to grow in confidence and overcome their fears. To help their members achieve their goals, Yaquina Toastmasters has a mentorship program, where every member has a mentor that will guide them through the education program towards their goal.
As a club, they are active in their community, helping the Loyalty Day Princesses perfect their scholarship speeches, assisting clubs such as the 4H members as they work on their competition speeches, and supporting professionals in the community to further their career and ambitions.
To aid in the members' growth, Yaquina Toastmasters has an educational program that all members have the opportunity to go through. This new program is called Pathways, which is made up of ten different Paths that members can choose from, which can be seen in the graphic below. Each Path includes five different levels that increase in difficulty (see below). These Paths will teach both leadership and public speaking skills to the members, and can be customized to the person's interest.

As a member of Toastmasters, there are opportunities to practice leadership skills at club and district levels. Every club has seven officers, including the President, Vice President of Education, Vice President of Membership and Vice President of Public Relations. There are also the Treasurer, Secretary, and Sergeant at Arms. In addition to year long roles, there are meeting roles that members can practice their skills doing. These include roles such as timer, speech evaluator, grammarian and Toastmaster of the day. Other meeting roles are general evaluator, table topics master, and speakers. Members also have the opportunity to give prepared speeches at meetings, and participate in Table Topics, practicing on impromptu speaking.
Yaquina Toastmasters meets every Tuesday at 7 AM PST at Pig 'N Pancake in the back meeting room. We would love to have you join us!

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