February 9, 2015 Club Meeting

Chamber Speakers Circle Toastmasters

February 9, 2015

Chamber Speakers Circle Toastmasters

February 9, 2015

Attendees: Brenda, Leif, Belinda, Randy, Samya, Martin, Suzanne, Aditi, David K, David N., and Annamarie

Guests: Janet and Jim

Annamarie was the Toastmaster; Brenda was the General Evaluator; Belinda was the Grammarian, Martin was the Ah Counter and the Timer.

Samya started the meeting by introducing the guest and making announcements.

Speaker #1 and Speaker #2,  (Combined speeches)  “An Interview”

Aditi – Project #8  “Getting Comfortable with Visual Aides.” 

Samya – Project #3 in the Advanced Manual  “When You’re the Host”

This was a very creative way of combing the needs of each speaker.  It was an educational session incorporating these three areas:

1.     Leadership

2.    Communication, including our websites, (Chamber Speakers Circle, District 4, and the Toastmaster International sites), and Social Media (Facebook site)

3.    Engagement, Being pat of a larger community    

Brenda called on her team of evaluators.

Evaluator #1:  David K. evaluated Samya.  He said that it was well prepared and well rehearsed.  Samya demonstrated that she understood the dynamics of an interview.  It was very effective and called for action from the audience.  Samya is a seasoned speaker, relaxed and confident.

The suggestion was made that Samya be careful not to stand in front of the projector and to also use a little more vocal variety.  She has a good presence and excellent eye contact. 

     

Evaluator #2:  Leif evaluated Aditi.  He started by saying, Aditi was excellent all the way across.  She had good inflection, and used visual aides with confidence.  It was recommended that Aditi dim the lights slightly because it was hard to read the slides at times.  Leif stated that she demonstrated a very good use of body language and had excellent expressive language skills.   

Samya asked for the guests remarks and then closed the meeting.