Pathways

Toastmasters customized experience of guidance, learning and development

Agenda

1. Pathways
2. What is Pathways
• The 3 components that constitute the framework
• Paths
• Core Competencies
• Level
3. How to use Pathways
• Member using basecamp and utilizing Pathways
• Basecamp Manager and Club Officers
• Pathways Awards & recognitions

4. Commercials

Pathways

It is an experience; with an interactive, exciting, flexible way to develop your skills and help others in your club develop theirs. Pathways helps you learn communication and leadership skills that you need to succeed. It gives you:�

• The opportunity to build  up to 300 unique competencies
• 11 specialized learning paths to choose from
• Online content, so that you can learn anytime, anywhere
• Real-world, transferable skills
• Content is also made available in various other languages to make this framework more inclusive and adaptive

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2. What is Pathways- the experience

The 3 levers to steer Pathways

There are 5 core competencies that are addressed or catered to. These are the universal capabilities that are essential in effective communication and leadership

Core Competencies

• Each customized path includes 5 Levels of proficiencies you will need to follow to learn.
• A before and after assessment mechanism helps us quantify our development, in each project at all levels .

Paths

• Every Level aims at developing a competency.
• It contains projects that enhances or improves our competencies.
• Each project also ensures you with the training material, activities , supporting artefacts and finally the self assessment mechanism to validate your learnings.

Levels

The competencies

There are 300 unique sub-competencies, built on these 5 core competencies in pathways

The paths

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Pathways is comprised of 11 paths that teach more than 300 unique competencies:�

As you progress through Pathways, you will:

• Practice and improve your communication and leadership skills.
• Give speeches in your club based on assignments in Pathways.
• Challenge yourself to build and refine certain competencies and skills.
• Complete a range of projects that include persuasive speaking, motivating others, creating a podcast and leading a group in a difficult situation.��

Develop real-world, transferable skills in many different areas through Pathways—communication, leadership, management, strategic planning, service to others, public speaking and more.

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The Levels and Project types

One required project & a minimum of 2 elective projects

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“Serve as Toastmaster, Topicmaster & Evaluator by end of Level 3”

Two required project

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“Introduction to Toastmasters Mentoring”

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“Ice Breaker”

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“Introduction of Vocal Variety and body language”

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“Evaluation & Feedback”

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Level 1�Mastering Fundamentals

Level 3�Increasing Knowledge

Level 2�Learning your style

One required project & 1 minimum of elective project

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Level 4�Building Skills

One required project & minimum of 1 elective project

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PATH completion sub level-

“Reflect on your path”

Level 5�Demonstrating Expertise

2. How to use Pathways

For members and for Base Camp Managers

How to use Pathways for members

• TI provides videos and tutorials- Members tutorials to access Pathways
• To find evaluation resource for any project in one place go to the page that hosted by Karen Storey to store all evaluation resources
1. Choose a Path here
2. Next you can find all project and their evaluation resources in this link
• Update - Recent-most changes in Pathways Level 1
• Projects in Level 1 has been updated- new project added, while researching and presenting has been made as an Elective in Level 3

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The complete dump of Pathways to Project one book view is here.

Pathways one view neatly created by D80 John Lee

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Guide for Basecamp Managers

• Pathways introduction and enrolment to new members every month within 1 week of joining- VP Education responsible
• VP ED tools- Pathways tracking
• Level Approval process
• Member individual Path-wise tracking tool
• Path progress should be tracked- post every meeting for each in- Club speaker the level tracker should be updated and
• Levels completions should also be filed after completion of final projects in a Level, for any member- again within 3 days of completing the last Club Meeting

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• *All credit of the above tools and tutorials goes to Karen Storey , for collating everything, in her exhaustive Pathways guide site

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Pathways Awards & recognitions

On Path Completion

Certificates of proficiency

After every Level

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Badges

On 2 paths completion

DTM Award *

Club achieves educational goals towards DCP

DCP Recognition

* For getting DTM award- you would also have to fulfill other criteria

Commercials

• The 1^st Path in your pathways journey is free
• It includes the Basecamp access to
• Digital materials for learning
• To get printed materials it would cost you an extra $25.
• You can even get other language specific resources available too.
• There are special materials to facilitate the visually impaired Toastmasters
• From the 2^nd path onwards , for each path you would need to pay $20.

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* All fees are excluding shipping costs- in case there is shipping involved

A quick quiz on Pathways for members

Know your Pathways

Thank you