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Contact: YouthLeadership@toastmasters60.org

What is Youth Leadership?

The Youth Leadership Program is a terrific way to help younger members of society begin learning more effective and leadership skills at a younger age.

The Youth Leadership Program helps young people develop the communication and leadership skills they need to be successful adults. The program is conducted by a coordinator for a group of young people under the age of eighteen, in four to eight sessions of one to two hours each. Ideally, there should be 15 to 25 participants; the minimum number is five.

Over the course of these sessions, participants learn about effective public speaking, have the opportunity to practice speaking themselves, and can be mentored by experienced Toastmasters if they desire. Friendships can and do blossom from the Youth Leadership experience.

This is a very effective way for a teenager to acquire the skills of speaking, listening, thinking, and evaluating -- all skills that are extremely important in today's world.

The sessions of the Youth Leadership Program covers a variety of topics which play a part in good public speaking.

• Gestures
• Vocal Variety
• Using Visual Aids
• Speech Organization
• Taking the Terror Out of a Talk
• Effective Speech Evaluation
• Constructing a Speech
• Relating to Your Audience

Why Host a Youth Leadership Program?

Conducting a Youth Leadership Program is an ideal way for your club to work with young people and to help build goodwill in the community.

Also, coordination of a Youth Leadership Program helps individual members by satisfying one of the requirements for the Advanced Toastmaster Gold recognition.

How Does a Club Host a Youth Leadership Program?

If your club would like to host a Youth Leadership Program, contact District 60 Lieutenant Governor of Marketing, who will help you coordinate the program, tailor it to your club's needs, refer people as participants and presenters, and provide other resources as needed for the program to be a success.