The High Performance Leadership project helps you develop
your leadership skills on a project of your choosing. The
program consists of five parts offering instruction and
practice in such vital leadership areas as:
As you work with a guidance committee on your project, you
receive feedback on your leadership skills at each of the
following steps:
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Learning About Leadership
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Choosing Your Objective
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Winning Commitment to Your Objective
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Working the Plan
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Analyzing and Presenting Results
The project may be completed within your Toastmaster club,
area or district or even within your company or community.
Completion of a High Performance Leadership project fulfills
one of the requirements for Advanced
Leader Silver (ALS) award.
The chart below lists the parts of the High Performance
Leadership project. Click on the titles to see the steps
involved in an individual part.
Learning About Leadership
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Assess your knowledge of leadership
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Assess your leadership skills
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Develop list of leadership projects to
be discussed with guidance committee
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Recruit a guidance committee
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Meet with guidance committee and select
project
Choosing Your Objectives
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Describe your vision
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Write your mission statement
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Define you core values
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Plan speech about vision for
presentation to your club
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Review your plan and speech with
your guidance committee
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Present speech to the club
Winning Commitment
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Recruit your action team
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Reach agreement on vision, mission
and core values
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Create an action strategy
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Identify key result areas
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Set goals and deadlines for each and
assign responsibility
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Create Action Plan
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Meet with your guidance committee
Working the Plan
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Review progress against action plan
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Identify and overcome any problems
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Handle interpersonal conflicts
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Re-evaluate overall plan
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Get feedback from team about your
leadership
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Reassess leadership skill
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Meet with your guidance committee
Analyzing and Presenting Your
Results
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Analyze the final results of your
project
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Meet with your guidance committee to
review
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Present your project results as a 5
- 7 minute speech to your club
