I am conducting very powerful HPL workshops for anyone looking to take public speaking to the next level and build a personal brand. This is how TI explains the HPL. High Performance Leadership High Performance Leadership features five projects offering instruction and practice in such vital leadership areas as developing a vision, goal-setting and planning, developing plans and strategies, and team-building. It also gives you feedback on your leadership skills. The program may be completed within your Toastmasters club, area or district, and even within your company or community. Perhaps you would enjoy taking on a project for your club or district while serving as an officer or committee chairman. Or, if you are an employee or supervisor in a business organization, you could do a leadership project related to the needs of your organization. Other possibilities include projects for your community, church, an association or professional group, or some other organization. Your project can be almost anything, so long as it is legal, ethical, and socially responsible, and your activities are not represented as being endorsed by Toastmasters International.

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Andre Wiley, CC
The
High-Performance
Leadership Project

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Why Do an HPL Project?
 Fulfill Toastmasters requirement for
Advanced Leader Silver award
 Get one step closer to becoming
Distinguished Toastmaster
 Build your leadership skills

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What is an HPL Project?
 Can be any project with these characteristics:
 has specific goals and timeframe
 requires advance planning, tracking, execution
 requires organizing a team (exercise leadership!)
 produces lessons learned
 Can be a project you are already planning
 Within Toastmasters:
 Organize an Area/Division/District Contest
 Club PR campaign
 Starting a New Club, Reviving an Existing Club
 Outside Toastmasters: at work, community,
association, or professional group.

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The 7 Steps to an HPL Project
1. Select a project – where you exercise leadership
2. Recruit a Guidance Committee (4+ members)
3. Select Action Team to work with
4. Establish goals, success criteria, timeframe, and a
work-plan to achieve goals; use SMART formula
5. Work the plan, meet periodically with the team &
guidance committee: status update & fine-tune the plan
6. At project end present “Results and Lessons
Learned”; get a written evaluation
7. Submit to TI the written evaluation and 4 signatures of
members of the Guidance Committee

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Examples of HPL Project + Goals
 Conduct a Blood Drive in October ’06;
Goal: 200 donors in 2 days
 Conduct District Conference
Goal: 200 attendees, 8 training sessions, break even
 Club Coach to Santana TM Club;
Goal: sign 6 new members, 5 DCP goals by June ’07
 Organize Community Fair on 9-10 August,
20 sponsors, 50 vendors, 1000 attendees

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NOT a Candidate HPL Project
 Achieve Competent Communicator in 6
months
– does not involve coordinating a team
 Swim from SF to Alcatraz some day
– time is not specific
 Run Meetings On Time
– does not have a defined timeframe

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Ideas for *your* HPL Project
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Select a Guidance Committee
 People who can advise you, have experience,
can help refine the project goals and objectives
 Subject-matter experts
 People you respect
 People who have done a similar project
 People on your team
 At least one person is active Toastmasters member
 Need 4 people
- they sign off at completion on Signature Sheet (p.70)

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Mission, Vision, Goals
 Vision: Imagine what you’d like to happen,
decide what needs to be done to make that
vision a reality.
“I have a dream….”
 Mission: simplified vision, defines purpose,
benefits, who will benefit.
Becomes foundation of the efforts.
 Goals: specific results to achieve, how the
goals are organized, prioritized, measured

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Goal-setting the “SMART” Way
“SMART” goals are:
 Specific
 Measurable
 Achievable
 Realistic
 Time-bound

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The Secret to Goal-Setting
The clearer the goals, the easier
to achieve.
Clear GOALS are:
 Easy to communicate
 Easy to delegate
 Easy to rally behind
 Increase a chance to success

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Action Plan
Example: Plan for Division G Contest - April 2006
# Action Item Lead Due Date Status
1 Select Venue Div. Governor 30-Jan Complete
2 Get Chairpersons for Committees Div. Governor 20-Feb
3 Get Toastmasters Contest Chair 10-Mar
4 Solicit Door Prizes Program Chair 9-Apr
5 Get Names and Contact info of Area Winners Area Governors 2-Apr

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Status Check
 Periodically meet with Action Team,
Guidance Committee (together or separately)
 Status update, check on progress
 Any course corrections needed?
Need to update goals/metrics?
 Define next steps to achieve goals
 Need two or more status check meetings
over the lifetime of the project

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Leadership Skills
 Evaluate your leadership style and
tendencies at beginning of project
 Discuss with Advisory Committee
 Observe – any changes / growth in your
leadership style throughout the period of
the project?

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Submit Report to TI
 Present Results and Lessons Learned to
home club, get a written evaluation
 Get signatures from 4 members of the
Guidance Committee
 Get signature from club’s VP Education
Send the forms to TI HQ as instructed in the
most up-to-date HPL Manual