Your membership provides you with professionally prepared educational material and resources on speaking. All of this material is available online.
PATHWAYS
Upon joining our club, you will be introduced to the Toastmasters Pathways system. There are 6 learning paths in total, and you would choose the one that suits you best.
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. These projects also emphasize the development of strategies to facilitate change in an organization or group, interpersonal communication and public speaking. This path culminates in a project focused on applying your leadership skills.
Engaging Humour:
This path is designed to help you build your skills as a humourous and engaging public speaker. The projects on this path focus on understanding your sense of humour and how that sense of humour translates to engaging audience members. The projects contribute to developing an understanding of how to effectively use humour in a speech, including challenging situations and impromptu speeches. This path culminates in an extended humourous speech that will allow you to apply what you learned.
Motivational Strategies:
This path helps you build your skills as a powerful and effective communicator. The projects focus on learning strategies for building connections with the people around you, understanding motivation and successfully leading small groups to accomplish tasks. This path culminates in a comprehensive team-building project that brings all of your skills together—including public speaking.
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. Each project emphasizes developing leadership skills to use in complex situations, as well as creating innovative solutions to challenges. This path culminates in a “High Performance Leadership” project of your design.
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. The projects contribute to developing an understanding of effective public speaking technique, including speech writing and speech delivery. This path culminates in an extended speech that will allow you to apply what you learned.
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. Speech writing and speech delivery are emphasized in each project. This path culminates in the development and launch of a long-term personal or professional vision.
HOW IT WORKS
You will be given an online assessment to determine what is the best learning path for you but if you don’t like what’s recommended you can choose your own.
Each learning path starts the same by getting you used to speaking in front of an audience, after that you focus on the main theme of your learning path.
Each learning path contains a series of 15 assignments designed to provide instruction and practice in the basic techniques of public speaking and leadership depending on which path you choose.
Your first speech will be an “Icebreaker” – a chance to introduce yourself to your fellow Toastmasters. From then on, you work at the pace that suits you. You will be introduced to techniques on how to identify and state your purpose, and how to properly construct a speech. You’ll gain experience in the use of voice variety, word pictures, and persuasion, and you will learn how to make what you say crystal clear to your listeners.
Leadership
Pathways contains a series of leadership assignments designed to provide instruction and practice in the basic techniques of leadership as you perform the various leadership roles in the meetings and in special leadership projects.
Evaluation
To assist the member, the Toastmasters programme includes effective evaluation. This evaluation of each members’ prepared speaking effort is performed by fellow Toastmasters in a constructive and helpful manner, utilizing a prepared evaluation procedure that is an integral part of the Toastmasters programme.
Table Topics
You will be given ample opportunities to practice expressing your thoughts in conversation through Table Topics. This is speaking off the cuff.
During the programme, all those who are not assigned a prepared speech or other role are offered a table topic. This is a one to two-minute impromptu speech, on any topic; it is usually spiked with lots of humour and it is a real fun part of the evening.
The Toastmaster Magazine
Every month, you will receive the Toastmaster Magazine. It provides new insight into the ever-changing world of communication and leadership. The ideas, opinions and techniques featured in each issue are alone worth Toastmasters’ modest dues.
BEYOND THE BASICS
Advanced Communication and Leadership Programme
Upon completion of your first learning path, the opportunities do not stop there. The next step is to take on another learning path, and at Florida Toastmasters Club you can combine it with the advanced programme series. This programme offers challenging projects that are geared to your specific career needs. Titles include: Speeches by Management, Public Relations, The Entertaining Speaker, Speaking to Inform, Specialty Speeches, The Conference Speaker, The Professional Speaker, Technical Presentations, Humorously Speaking and the Professional Salesperson.
Success/Leadership Series
Toastmasters International has created a series of seminar modules designed for supplemental educational programming in your club. You will have the opportunity to build your thinking power and learn how to give effective evaluations, to listen effectively, to conduct productive meetings, various aspects of leadership and to learn parliamentary procedure.
Speechcraft, and Youth Leadership
You can share your Toastmasters training with others outside of the organization when you participate in these programmes. The Speechcraft programme is an eight-week course for adults on the fundamentals of public speaking. Many clubs present this course to local company employees. The Youth Leadership Programme teaches young men and women under the age of eighteen the basic techniques of public speaking and helps prepare them for taking positions of leadership in today’s society.
Audio and Visual Tools
For use outside your club meeting, Toastmasters International also offers nearly 100 Video Recordings on the subject of communication and leadership and associated topics.
Leadership
As you become more experienced and confident, you’ll be given opportunities to learn the basic skills of leadership. You’ll serve as master of ceremonies, lead group discussions, serve as a chairman or member of a committee, or become a club officer.
Later on there will be opportunities to become a district officer and you can go on and on to become a member of the national committee called the Cabinet.
You will gain experience in conference, convention and programme arrangements – learning while doing in an atmosphere of fellowship and fun with your fellow club members.
Minimal Cost/Maximum Benefits
There is a joining fee (for profile activation on the online system), plus a semi-annual subscription fee. You can become the successful person you want to be!
Toastmasters International is the best value self-development organisation in the world.
To be a member of Florida Toastmasters Club, the current (2026/27) costs are:
| Joining Fee | R450.00 (once-off) |
| Name Badge | R95.00 (once-off) |
| Semi-annual Membership | R1 550.00 (per semester)* |
*Members joining the club outside of the standard dues periods (April and October) qualify for pro-rata membership fees, calculated according to the month in which they join. Pro-rata fees cover the remainder of the current dues period, after which the standard semi-annual membership fee will apply.