Common Terms & Terminology

A Club Officer Training (COT) provides officers with the basics of how to achieve Distinguished Club Program goals as well as what roles and responsibilities they have. These typically are shorter than a Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) and may be conducted by a division, so they're recommended for more experienced club officers who can't attend the TLI.

The Competent Communicator (CC) was the starting speaking manual prior to the introduction of the Pathways program. It contains ten projects, starting with the Icebreaker and ending with Inspire Your Audience.

Though outdated now, the manual has some useful lessons.

The Competent Leader (CL) was introduced in the mid 2000s, and was designed to help develop leadership skills by getting written evaluations for performing club-related tasks and roles, such as being an evaluator, Table Topics Master, and so on. Like the CC, it has ten projects, but requires you to complete a set of tasks for each project that cannot be done in one meeting. It has been replaced by the Pathways program.

CTM is the older version of the Competent Communicator award/designation, replaced by CC in the mid-2000s.