| Project | |
|---|---|
| Active Listening | This project covers the difference between hearing and listening, and steps for exploring the ways listening helps build strong, lasting connections. |
| Advanced Mentoring | This project is designed to support you as you accomplish a six-month term as a mentor. |
| Building a Social Media Presence | This project addresses how best to use different types of online communication. You will create and maintain an online profile to promote yourself or an organization. |
| Communicate Change | This project focuses on creating a communication plan by gathering evidence to support the need for change and communicating change with your audience. |
| Connect with Storytelling | This project addresses storytelling techniques and descriptive skills to help make every speech relatable and interesting. |
| Connect with Your Audience | This project focuses on different audience types and how to address them effectively. |
| Create a Podcast | This project addresses the skills you need to develop a podcast, create interesting content and organize a cohesive program. You will learn how to record and upload it to the internet. |
| Creating Effective Visual Aids | This project addresses effective methods for choosing the best visual aid for your presentation along with the creation and use of each type. |
| Cross-Cultural Understanding | This project focuses on understanding the cultures with which you identify and the impact of stereotypes associated with your cultures and others. |
| Deliver Social Speeches | This project addresses the skills needed to compose a speech for a social occasion including a toast, eulogy, an acceptance speech and a speech praising an individual or group. |
| Develop a Communication Plan | This project focuses on how to formulate a central message and develop a communication plan for a target audience. |
| Develop Your Vision | This project focuses on developing a vision for your work or personal life. |
| Distinguished Toastmaster | This project is designed to give you opportunity to design and fulfill a multifaceted project on your way to achieving your Distinguished Toastmaster award. |
| Effective Body Language | This project focuses on how to recognize body language used when speaking publicly and how to use gestures to enhance speech content |
| Ethical Leadership | This project addresses the importance of recognizing the effect of decisions that impact ethics, best practices for making ethical decisions and developing an ethical framework. |
| Evaluation and Feedback | This project addresses the skills needed to give and receive feedback. You will learn about giving, receiving and applying feedback |
| Focus on the Positive | This project addresses strategies for improving your personal interactions by understanding the impact of your attitudes and thoughts on daily interactions. |
| High Performance Leadership | The focus of this project is to design and complete a project with well-defined goals, lead a team and be accountable to a guidance committee. |
| Ice Breaker | This foundational project is designed to introduce you to your club and the skills you need to begin your Toastmasters journey. |
| Improvement Through Positive Coaching | This project focuses on how your actions can positively affect others and how to nurture relationships and assist an individual in reaching a goal. |
| Inspire Your Audience | This project addresses how to present a speech in an enthusiastic and inspiring fashion to establish a strong rapport with your audience. |
| Introduction to Toastmasters Mentoring | This project introduces the value of mentorship and the Toastmasters view of mentors and protégés |
| Lead in Any Situation | This project focuses on leadership and recognizing the need to adapt your style based on the situation and the people you lead. |
| Leading in Difficult Situations | This project focuses on the fundamentals of managing challenges, analyzing difficult situations and identifying best strategies for overcoming adversity. |
| Leading in Your Volunteer Organization | This project focuses on the skills required to lead in a volunteer organization and the importance of recognition and reward in motivating volunteers. |
| Leading Your Team | This project is designed to help you accomplish a task while leading a small group and give you the opportunity to practice basic skills of leadership. |
| Lessons Learned | This project addresses how to identify the discussion points of a large group meeting, encourage a culture of contribution and voicing opinions, and facilitate productive discussion that yields results. |
| Make Connections Through Networking | This project focuses on how to network effectively and understanding the importance of being a professional ally to people in your network. |
| Manage Change | This project focuses on how to plan for change, develop a communication plan, and identify obstacles to success |
| Manage Online Meetings | This project addresses how to effectively conduct online meetings and webinars, prepare and organize necessary visual aids, and lead with confidence. |
| Manage Projects Successfully | This project focuses on skills needed to effectively manage a project, develop rapport with stakeholders and cultivate strong relationships with a team. |
| Manage Successful Events | This project is designed to give you tools to coordinate an event. It includes steps for managing the unexpected, leading a team and creating positive outcomes. |
| Managing a Difficult Audience | This project covers common behaviors of difficult audience members and how to address each behavior in a calm, effective and professional way |
| Managing Time | This project is designed to help you manage your time, discover time management techniques, and employ them in your speeches and daily life. |
| Mentoring | This project focuses on facilitating a short-term mentoring assignment to help you build your skills as a mentor. |
| Moderate a Panel Discussion | This project addresses the skills needed to successfully moderate a panel discussion and how to be an effective participant on a panel. |
| Motivate Others | This project focuses on how people are motivated. It is designed to help you build your leadership skills by effectively motivating team members. |
| Negotiate the Best Outcome | This project focuses on identifying negotiation styles, engaging in mutually beneficial discussions, and finding and building common ground. |
| Persuasive Speaking | This project focuses on helping you to develop and support a viewpoint, and identify the most appropriate type of persuasive speech for your topic. |
| Planning and Implementing | This project is designed to help you develop realistic plans to meet your objectives and to successfully monitor a project to completion. |
| Prepare for an Interview | This project addresses the skills you need to identify and speak about personal strengths and present yourself well in an interview of any type. |
| Prepare to Mentor | This project focuses on helping you clarify your personal goals and interests as they relate to mentoring others. |
| Prepare to Speak Professionally | This project is designed to help you define the attributes of professional speakers and apply that understanding to your own skills as a speaker |
| Present a Proposal | This project introduces how to select key information to present in a proposal to build a case with supporting evidence and realistic solutions. |
| Public Relations Strategies | This project focuses on how to promote awareness of an organization, formulate a public relations strategy and use various public relations tactics. |
| Question-and-Answer Session | This project addresses how to prepare to answer questions and provide information clearly, concisely and with confidence |
| Reaching Consensus | This project focuses on reaching consensus and the importance of including all group members in the decisionmaking process. |
| Reflect on Your Path | This project is designed to give you an opportunity to share your experience at the end of your path. |
| Researching and Presenting | This project addresses topic selection strategies, suggestions for research and methods for producing a wellorganized speech. |
| Successful Collaboration | The focus of this project is the benefit of collaboration, building an environment of trust, and encouraging creative debate within a group. |
| Team Building | This project addresses the benefits of team building. It is designed to help you build a sense of collaboration and trust within a team completing a project. |
| Understanding Conflict Resolution | This project is designed to introduce conflict resolution strategies and provide an opportunity to resolve a conflict scenario within an interactive activity. |
| Understanding Emotional Intelligence | This project addresses elements of emotional intelligence. It is designed to help you understand your own emotions and the emotions of others. |
| Understanding Vocal Variety | This project addresses the importance of vocal variety when giving a speech and provides activities to develop and nurture its use. |
| Understanding Your Communication Style | This project focuses on recognizing your preferred communication style and understanding how your style impacts your interactions with others. |
| Understanding Your Leadership Style | This project is designed to introduce the different styles of leadership and help you identify your preferred style. |
| Using Descriptive Language | This project addresses the difference between literal and figurative language along with how to determine when to use each to create vivid descriptions. |
| Using Presentation Software | This project addresses the use of presentation software—from identifying topics that benefit from the use of technology to effective slide design and presentation. |
| Write a Compelling Blog | This project addresses the basics of developing a compelling blog and successfully engaging a readership. |
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