Pathways Paths and Projects
Persuasive Influence
This path helps you build your skills as an innovative communicator and leader. The projects on this path focus on how to negotiate a positive outcome together with building strong interpersonal communication and public speaking skills. Each project emphasizes developing leadership skills to use in complex situations, as well as creating innovative solutions to challenges. This path culminates in a “High Performance Leadership” project of your design.
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 is designed to introduce conflict resolution strategies and provide an opportunity to resolve a conflict scenario within an interactive activity.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop or enhance your understanding of the steps and strategies to address conflict.
Overview: Complete the conflict resolution video activity in the project. Prepare a 5- to 7-minute speech to discuss how you manage conflict, how you can develop a stronger strategy, and your best attributes in a conflict situation. You may also share the impact of the video activity. Your speech may be humorous, informational, or any style that appeals to you. This project is not a report on or a critique of the content of this project.
This project includes:
- A conflict resolution video activity
- A 5- to 7-minute speech
LEVEL 3 PROJECTS (Required)
Level 4: Building Skills
LEVEL 4 MEETING ROLES (Required)
This project focuses on the fundamentals of managing challenges, analyzing difficult situations and identifying best strategies for overcoming adversity.
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to practice strategies for adjusting to unexpected changes to a finalized plan.
Overview: Design and complete a project plan for any event or set of goals. Your plan may be real or hypothetical. Add as many details to your plan as possible for the best success of this project. In a 5- to 7-minute speech at a club meeting, share your plan. Distribute copies of the Plan Disruption Ideas resource to club members and allow them 2 to 3 minutes to discuss possible disruptions to your plan. Listen and present impromptu solutions to the disruptions introduced by club members. The total time to complete this assignment in a club meeting is 15 to 20 minutes.
This project includes:
- Designing a detailed project plan
- The Project Plan resource
- The Project Plan Overview resource
- The Plan Disruption Ideas resource
- A 5- to 7-minute speech to share your plan
- An impromptu speech to present solutions to disruptions
Accessing the documents: Members can easily find these documents by logging in to toastmasters.org – go to Base Camp in Pathways and find the link to the web page with links to the ‘Speech Evaluation’ documents.