If you have a meeting role, are serving as a club officer, or assisting as a committee member at the district level, there are many Pathways Project to help you with your speaking goals while supporting your club’s educational goals at the same time.

When you are the Table Topics Master, the Zoom Master, leading the education session, or the Vice President of Public Relations (to name a few), you are fulfilling project requirements in Pathways. There are Pathways projects designed to be applied to such positions and more. Here is a list of some of the Paths and Projects you can explore while completing a meeting role, club officer role, or district role:

Serve as Table Topics Master.

• Project: Active Listening.
• When: At a club meeting, fulfill the role of Table Topics master.

Building a Social Media Presence.

• Project: Build a new social media presence or enhance an existing presence.
• When: carrying out personal goals (such as connecting with old friends or promoting a blog), professional goals (such as promoting a business or organization), helping promote your club as VPPR, assisting on the District PR team or Conference committee.

Create a Podcast.

• Project: Record a minimum of 60 minutes of content. You are free to divide the episodes as you choose. Episodes are at least 10 minutes each.
• When: carrying out personal goals or professional goals, or while helping promote your club or on the District’s PR team or Conference committee.

Deliver Social Speeches.

• Project: Compose a speech for a social occasion.
• When: Introduce a speaker, present or accept an award at your club, or roast an outgoing officer such as club president or district director.

Develop a Communication Plan.

• Project: Develop a communication plan for any event or situation.
• When: Chair a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference.

Develop Your Vision.

• Project: Develop a vision, establish a timeline for implementing your plan, and execute your plan.
• When: Serve as a club or district officer or chair a large event such as the district conference.

High Performance Leadership.

• Project: Develop a project plan, organize a guidance committee, and implement your plan with the help of a team.
• When: Chair a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference

Improvement Through Positive Coaching.

• Project: Outside of club meetings, coach an individual through a project.
• When: Serve as club officer, district officer, club coach, club mentor, or coach any member through a project in your club or district.

Lead in Any Situation.

• Project: For at least six months, take on a leadership role in Toastmasters (at any level), within another volunteer organization, or in your career.
• When: Serve in a club officer or district leader role (such as an area director etc.).

Leading in Difficult Situations.

• Project: Design and complete a project plan for any event or set of goals.
• When: Serve as a club officer or district leader role (such as an area director etc.) or chair a committee or event.

Leading in Your Volunteer Organization.

• Project: Serve in a leadership role in Toastmasters or another volunteer organization for at least six months.
• When: Serve in a club officer or district leader role (such as an area director, etc.).

Leading Your Team.

• Project: Build a team and lead your team to the completion of a project of your design.
• When: Serve as a club or district officer or chair a committee or event.

Lessons Learned.

• Project: Facilitate a lessons-learned meeting for a team with which you are completing or have completed?a project.
• Lead the debrief after an event or project completion.

Making Connections Through Networking.

• Project: Prepare for and attend a networking event.
• When: Serve as networking chair for an event.

Manage Online Meetings.

• Project: Practice facilitating a 20- to 25-minute online meeting with fellow Toastmasters or a 20- to 25-minute webinar with visual aids for fellow Toastmasters.
• When: Facilitate a club’s online or hybrid meeting, a webinar or other online meeting.

Manage Projects Successfully.

• Project: Practice developing a plan, building a team, and fulfilling the plan with the help of your team.
• Chair a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference.

Manage Successful Events.

• Project: Oversee an event of your design and lead a team in the process.
• When: Chair a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference.

Moderate a Panel Discussion.

• Project: Plan and moderate a 20- to 40-minute panel discussion.
• When: Facilitate an education workshop with a panel at a club meeting, a council meeting, TLI, or at the district conference.

Motivate Others.

• Project: Build a team of three to four people to help you create and complete a project to benefit your club.
• When: Chair a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference.

Planning and Implementing.

• Project: Select any small-scale project. Develop and implement the plan, with or without help from others.
• When: A family party, a short trip, a themed Toastmasters meeting, or any other event or project that requires short -term planning.

Present a Proposal.

• Project: Develop a proposal to improve any area of your life. It may involve your personal or professional life, or your Toastmasters club. Present your proposal to build a case with supporting evidence and realistic solutions.
• When: Present a proposal to your team when chairing a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference. If your proposal involves your club, speak with the appropriate officer. Examples could be a proposal to increase club membership, or to increase the members doing speeches or taking on meeting roles weeks in advance of the meeting.

Public Relations Strategies.

• Project: Create a public relations plan for a real or hypothetical group or situation. Promote awareness of an organization, formulate a public relations strategy, and use various public relations tactics.
• When: Serve as club VPPR or PR Manager or join the District PR team.

Question-and-Answer Session.

• Project: Prepare to answer questions and provide information clearly, concisely and with confidence.
• When: Serve as a facilitator at Club Officer training, facilitate an education session about your club officer role at the club level, conduct an educational workshop at the district or at a council meeting, at TLI, or at the district conference.

Reaching Consensus.

• Project: Work with a group to reach consensus on any topic.
• When: Chair a committee or event, such as speech contest, open house, or district conference.

Successful Collaboration.

• Project: Work with a small team and collaborate to make decisions and apply the collaboration strategies that you learned.
• When: A small-scale project, such as planning a club meeting.

Team Building.

• Project: Practice the skills needed to build and work with a small team to design and host an event.
• When: Serve as networking chair for an event.

Write a Compelling Blog .

• Project: Post a minimum of eight blog posts in one month. The blog may be new or one you have already established.
• When: to promote your club on your club’s website, submit Toastmaster related articles to the District Blog, or blog to promote your own business or your own brand.

Created by Nancy Movrin, DTM, Program Quality Director 2022-2023