Meeting Recap: March 16, 2013

Meeting Theme: St.Patrick's Day- Go Green

Jocelyne, the chair for the meeting opened the meeting with a a few words on the theme “St.Patrick's Day:Go Green”. Some members wore green clothing and even brought green items to match with the theme. Bhushan, the toastmaster of the meeting, introduced our speakers.

SPEAKERS

Tiffany gave a speech “Talk about Bones” where she talked about Osteoporosis. She explained what it was, who it affected and how it can be prevented.

Since we were short on speakers, Jocelyne stepped up and gave an impromptu and brief educational talk about what made a good speech opening. (Remember that a good opening contains a Bang, Promise and a Roadmap)

Pearl conducted a St. Patrick's Day themed Table Topics session. All speakers who volunteered for the session picked a 4-leaf clover that had their question on it and kept the clover after they were done.

BUSINESS SESSION

Jocelyn and Bhushan will represent our club at the International Speech and Evaluation Area Contest which will take place in the Mississauga Central Library. More details will be available in a future post.

Meeting Recap: March 2, 2013

Elizabeth, the chair for the meeting opened the meeting with a a few words on the theme “We Create Opportunity”. Raj, the toastmaster of the meeting, introduced our guest speaker of the day.

SPEAKERS

We had a 40 minute seminar workshop from guest speaker, J.Brett Abbey. In his seminar titled, “Discover how to get your audience to buy into your message”, he talked about how we can get our audience to buy into our message and move them to action.

After his detailed talk, he held a brief Table Topics session to test how the club members would use the lessons from his talk when they were called upon to talk.

Elizabeth also held an additional Table Topics session in the form of a lively debate, where members were asked to debate over serious and even fun topics.

BUSINESS SESSION

Jocelyn informed members about a comedy presentation on March the 22^nd. She will be one of the opening acts for Judy Croon at the Speaker's Think Tank's 2nd Annual Showcase on March 22nd at the Noel Ryan Auditorium in Mississauga from 7:30-9:30 pm.

Visit http://speakersthinktank.com/member/?page_id=575 to more information. You can even buy your tickets online. Ticket price is $25 if you purchase online and $30 if you buy them at the door

Meeting Recap: February 16, 2013

Evaluation Contest

Raj, the contest chair started off the contest by giving a brief explanation of how the contest would run. Mike, the chief judge, took a few minutes to go over the contest rules for the benefit of the audience just before the Target Speaker could be called upon.

Elizabeth, a toastmaster from another club who volunteered to be our contest Target Speaker, talked about how having a mentor helped her succeed in life in her speech "Secret Weapon."

Speech Contest

Elizabeth, the contest chair, started off the speech contest by introducing the chief judge, Mike, who gave the audience a brief explanation about the rules.
The order in which the contestants presented their speeches was decided by lots, chosen before the meeting.

Raj gave a speech titled "The Plan" where he explained that having a plan was the only way to reach your goals and ambitions.

Jocelyne gave a speech titled "To be or not to be is your choice". She talked about knowing your strengths and weakness and how you can turn your weakness into strengths with effort.

Tiffany gave a speech titled "I almost took it" where she talked about anti-anxiety medication and why she chose not to take it.

The Results

Nikesh, our Area Governor, presented all the winners with certificates and handed gift cards to the first place winners.

                                 For the Evaluation contest               For the Speech contest
                                 1. Bhushan                                       1. Jocelyne
                                 2. Viash                                            2. Tiffany