Sunday, March 1, 2015

October 20, 2014 Club Meeting

Chamber Speakers Circle Toastmasters

October 20, 2014

Attendees: David N., Samya, Aditi, David K., Suzanne, Randy, Fernando, Belinda, Lucy, Annamarie, and Kira
Guests: Joe

Theme of the day:  Impromptu
Word of the day:  “Improvise”

David K. was the Toastmaster; Randy was the General Evaluator; David N. was the Grammarian, Fernando was the Ah Counter, Kira was the Vote Counter, and Suzanne was the Timer.

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

Speaker #1:  Joe:  Project #1, “Ice Breaker”        

Joe began his speech by stating that he was born in El Paso, Texas.  He briefly went through his early years and received his B.A. in business.  He worked in mass transit by driving buses for 15 years and then went into management for several years, as a rail safety officer.  During this time, he was actively involved with safety training in environmental compliance.

It took Joe eight years to achieve his final job of “Proactive Training for Safety, Transportation Safety Institute”.   He is now happily working in this capacity for California Transportation.

Speaker #2:  Lucy:  Project #1, “Ice Breaker”        

Lucy described herself as an “introverted personality”.  She was a quiet introspective kid and an artist.  Lucy told the story of when she was a maid of honor at a wedding and when giving the wedding toast, used the wrong name for the groom.  She now knows the value of good communication and becoming a confident speaker.   Lucy’s new job requires more communication skills and she is now looking forward to progressing through the Toastmaster skill development series.

Table Topics:  Kira was the Table Topics Master. Questions were asked around of the theme of “Impromptu”.

Randy called on his team of evaluators.

Evaluator #1:  Annamarie. Evaluated Joe.   Annamarie opened that Joe’s speech “blue her away”.  Joe made excellent eye contact, and communicated well with the audience.  He made us interested in the subject by his passion for what he does.  This was an impromptu speech and Joe did not use any notes.  Annamarie suggested that he put in a personal story to help illustrate some of his main points and to move about the room more.  It was an overall very good speech. 

Evaluator #2:  Belinda evaluated Lucy.  Belinda said that Lucy smiled openly and used good gradation.  She loved the maid of honor story and she wrote Josh into her story very effectively.  Her suggestion was that she could have evolved the story a little more so the audience could get even more involved.  Belinda had a final suggestion that Lucy describe introversion, not as a weakness, but rather how she turned it into a strength.  Belinda gave her an example of how to do this. 

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


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