Pathways Paths and Projects
Presentation Mastery
This path helps you build your skills as an accomplished public speaker. The projects on this path focus on learning how an audience responds to you and improving your connection with audience members. The projects contribute to developing an understanding of effective public speaking technique, including speech writing and speech delivery. This path culminates in an extended speech that will allow you to apply what you learned.
Level 1: Mastering Fundamentals
LEVEL 1 PROJECTS (Required)
Level 2: Learning Your Style
LEVEL 2 PROJECTS (Required)
Level 3: Increasing Knowledge
LEVEL 3 MEETING ROLES (Required)
This project focuses on helping you to develop and support a viewpoint, and identify the most appropriate type of persuasive speech for your topic.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to understand the types of persuasive speeches and deliver a persuasive speech at a club meeting.
Overview: Choose any topic that lends itself to speaking persuasively and prepare a speech. Present your 5- to 7-minute speech at a club meeting. If your vice president education approves a non-club event or group, your evaluator must be present for your speech.
This project includes:
- The Persuasive Speech Outline Worksheet
- A 5- to 7-minute speech
LEVEL 3 PROJECTS (Required)
Level 4: Building Skills
LEVEL 4 MEETING ROLES (Required)
This project covers common behaviors of difficult audience members and how to address each behavior in a calm, effective and professional way.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to practice the skills needed to address audience challenges when you present outside of your Toastmasters club.
Overview: Prepare a 5- to 7-minute speech on a topic of your choosing. You may write a new speech or use a speech you presented previously. You will be evaluated on the way you manage audience disruptions, not the content of your speech. Before your club meeting, send the Role Play Assignments resource to the Toastmaster and vice president education. As you present your speech, respond to different types of difficult audience members that disrupt you. The process of speaking and responding to audience members will take 12 to 15 minutes.
This project includes:
- A role play assignment for club members
- A 5- to 7-minute speech