Chamber
Speakers Circle Toastmasters
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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