Welcome to Pathways!

Welcome to the Toastmasters Pathways learning experience, an exciting, flexible and interactive way to develop your skills and help others in your club develop theirs. Pathways help you learn the communication and leadership skills needed to succeed.

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Paths and Projects

The Pathways learning experience is an interactive and flexible education program like no other. It will strengthen your communication and leadership skills, support your personal and professional success, and help you have fun and connect with others in the process!

Dynamic Leadership

This path helps you build your skills as a strategic leader. The projects on this path focus on understanding leadership and communication styles, the effect of conflict on a group and the skills needed to defuse and direct conflict. 

Engaging Humor

This path is designed to help you build your skills as a humorous and engaging public speaker. The projects on this path focus on understanding your sense of humor and how that sense of humor translates to engaging audience members.

Motivational Strategies

This pathway strengthens your skills as a confident and effective communicator. The initiatives focus on strategies to build connections, understand motivation, and successfully lead small groups to reach their goals.

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. 

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. 

Visionary Communication

This path helps you build your skills as a strategic communicator and leader. The projects on this path focus on developing your skills for sharing information with a group, planning communications and creating innovative solutions. 

Vintage Paths

The Communication Series:
Entertaining Speaker + Storytelling

This vintage path offers access to cherished Toastmasters content from the 1990s. The first three levels include material from the Competent Communication manual, while levels 4 and 5 feature projects from The Entertaining Speaker and Storytelling advanced manuals. Although this content hasn’t been used since 2018, it laid the groundwork for Pathways and remains relevant for members enhancing their communication skills.

Basic Training For Toastmasters

This vintage path allows you to work through a version of the Basic Training for Toastmasters manual that was first introduced by Toastmasters founder Ralph C. Smedley in 1943. The topics covered in this manual remain the foundation for the Toastmasters education program and are valuable for all speakers, regardless of experience level.

Explorations

Online Meeting Mastery

This exploration helps you master norms and techniques necessary to participate in three aspects of online meetings. The projects focus on effectively attending, presenting in, and leading online meetings. The fourth and final project, the Culminating Assignment, is a demonstration of skills learned in all Core Projects.