This is my presentation I did on the Toastmasters Educational program.

1. Would You Like Jam With That?
The Toastmasters Education Program

2. How The Toastmasters
Education Program
Works
Works
Works

3. Requirements for DTM
• Advanced Communicator Gold
• Advanced Leader Silver

4. How Do We Get
There?

5. Plans are nothing;
planning is everything.
planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

7. Communication Track
• Competent Communicator
• Advanced Communicator Bronze
• Advanced Communicator Silver
• Advanced Communicator Gold

8. Competent
Communicator
• 10 Speeches
• Provides basic skills needed
to present an effective
speech

9. Advanced
Communicator Bronze
• Complete 2 Advanced
Manuals (5 Speeches Each)
• Some of the Advanced
Manuals are easier than
others
• Speech Length Varies From 3
Minutes To 1 Hour Or More

10. Advanced
Communicator Silver
• Complete 2 Advanced
Manuals (5 Speeches Each)
• You Cannot Repeat Manuals
In a Single Cycle
• 2 Presentations From The
Better Speaker Series and/or
The Successful Club Series

11. Advanced
Communicator Gold
• Complete 2 Advanced
Manuals (5 Speeches Each)
• You Still Cannot Repeat
Manuals In a Single Cycle
• 1 Presentation From the
Success/Leadership Series,
Success/Communication
Series, or Youth Leadership
• Coach a New Member With
First 3 Speeches

12. Advanced
Communicator Gold
• In Summary: 43 Speeches
and Coaching a New
Member With First 3
Speeches (Something we all
need to do any way)

13. Leadership Track
• Competent Leader
• Advanced Leader Bronze
• Advanced Leader Silver

14. Competent Leader
• 10 Projects
• 45 Tasks
• You Only Need To Complete 21 or
22 Tasks if you plan properly
• Develop Basic Leadership Skills

15. Advanced Leader
Bronze
• Complete CL & CC
• Serve at least 6 months as an officer
• Attend Officer
Training
• Participate in preparing the Club Success Plan

16. Club Success Plan
Basically You Show Up At One Meeting
Don't tell our Area Governor I said that.

17. Club Success Plan
DCP Report
Report Card For the Club and the Club President

18. Advanced Leader
Bronze
• I'd recommend getting President or
VP Education (You'll see why soon)
• President can be the easiest job in the
world of you have the right team.
• Complete 2 Presentations From The Successful Club
Series and/or The Leadership Excellence Series.

19. Advanced Leader Silver
• Complete ALB
• Serve a complete term (1 year) as
District Officer
• Complete the High Performance
Leadership Program
• Serve Successfully as a Club Sponsor, Mentor, or
Coach

20. District Officer
• District Governor
• Lieutenant Governor(s)
• Public Relations Officer
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Division Governor

21. Did I Mention Area Governor?

22. Requirements To Be
Area Governor
• Club President
• Vice President of Education
• Other District Officer

23. High Performance
Leadership
• Recruit Guidance Committee*
• Select Worthwhile Project You Can Lead
• Work with your team to accomplish the goal, or at
least make enough progress so you can show
the results of your learning process.
• Make presentation to your club and get
feedback.

24. High Performance
Leadership
• Can Be Inside or Outside Toastmasters
• As You Complete a Each Step You Get
Feedback From Your Committee

25. *Serving on someone else's HPL Committee
counts towards your CL

26. Here's The Kicker:
Your Project Doesn't Even Have To Be
Successful

27. Serve Successfully as a Club
Sponsor, Mentor, or Coach
This is the one part of Toastmasters where you
have to be successful in order to get credit

28. Summary of
Requirements
• Total of 46 Speeches including HPL
Presentation
• Two Years as an Officer: 1 Year As Club
President or VPE and 1 Year As District Officer
• Serve As Club Sponsor, Mentor, or Coach
• High Performance Leadership Project

30. Why?
• Toastmasters is all about leadership and
learning to become a leader by way of both
tracks
• I've become a firm believer in Toastmasters as
a leadership training program.
• I want to be a better leader for my company,
my communities, and my family.

31. I love it when a plan comes together.
John "Hannibal" Smith, The A-Team