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Your Journey

At Norwich Speakers' Club, all members have access to Pathways. This is the the official educational program of Toastmasters International, designed to help members develop communication and leadership skills. It's an online system where members can select a personalized learning path and progress through various projects at their own pace. 

Once you become a member, the Vice President of Education will guide you through how to create an account with Toastmasters International and then begin your educational journey with Pathways, should you choose to take the structured route. A brief summary of the available paths are illustrated below but for a more in depth incite in to the exciting Pathways Education Program visit the Toastmasters International website.

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Dynamic Leadership

The projects on this path focus on how to negotiate a positive outcome together with building strong interpersonal communication and public speaking skills.

Visionary Communication

The projects on this path focus on developing your skills on how to share information with a group, planning communications and creative innovative solutions.

Presentation Mastery

The projects on this path focus on learning how to develop all aspects of your public speaking skills and will enable you to become a powerful and confident speaker.

Engaging Humour

An exciting new edition to the available paths...This path is designed to help you build your skills as a humorous and engaging public speaker. 

Motivational Strategies

The projects on this path focus on learning strategies, understanding motivation and successfully leading small groups to accomplish tasks.

Persuasive Influence

The projects on this path focus on how to negotiate a positive outcome, together with building strong interpersonal communication and public speaking skills.

Evaluations

In Toastmasters, feedback is called evaluation, and it is at the heart of our educational program.

 

Public speaking and leadership are skills that can be developed and improved. You observe the speeches and leadership roles of your fellow club members and offer evaluations of their efforts, and they do the same for you. If you truly want to improve your speaking and leadership skills, you must learn how to give and receive helpful evaluations.

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There are many advantages of receiving well-structured evaluations and as you begin on your exciting journey of self-discovery and personal development, the evaluation will be an immensely valuable tool enabling you to learn and progress.​

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Evaluations have many benefits and help you to:

 

  • Enhance self awareness

  • Identify what you are doing well

  • Establish what you could improve on

  • Gives you the necessary tools to develop your skills

  • Gain a sense of direction, a goal, something to work towards

  • Increase your motivation to improve and be the best you can be

  • Develop resilience within your character and strengthens your desire to succeed

  • Ultimately enables you to reach your true potential

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Mentoring

At Norwich Speakers' Club, mentoring plays a large part in your development toward becoming a successful public speaker.  
 

When you join the club, you have an opportunity to be allocated a Mentor to familiarise you with all aspects of the club meetings and help you work towards delivering your first speech. Your chosen Mentor will be an experienced member of the club and will work with you to ensure your integration into the club and progression towards achieving your personal goals.

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A mentor can help you:

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  • Learn all about the education programme – Mentors help new members become familiar with the Pathways Education Programme, club meeting roles and opportunities available through membership

  • Learn club standards and customs – Mentors help new members learn about the club and its activities

  • Develop confidence – Armed with the knowledge mentors provide, new members’ self-confidence increases

  • Participate more – Mentors help new members become familiar with and enjoy the club and its members. As a result, new members become more involved in club activities

  • Quickly learn speaking skills – Mentors familiarise new members with the resources available to them and coach them with their speeches, enabling the new members to advance faster

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If you are thinking of joining the club but worried about how you will seamlessly integrate into the mechanics of the fortnightly meetings, then the help available from a Mentor could be the invaluable resource you are looking for.

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