Meeting Recap: November 17, 2012

Since a good number of our members were attending the District 86 Fall Conference over the weekened, we had a relatively small meeting. Even so, we managed to cram a lot of things into our meeting.

Bhushan was the chair for the meeting. Raj, the toastmaster of the meeting inspired the audience by talking about his favourite motivational speaker's (Jim Rohn who can be found on YouTube) analogy that everyone should be 'like a sponge' and 'absorb' everything you can from your daily experiences.

SPEAKERS

We had two prepared speeches in this meeting.

Cheryl gave her Icebreaker Speech, a humourous personal speech, titled "Cheryl".(Speech no. 1 from the Competent Communication Manual)

Surekha gave a thoughtful speech about meat production, titled "Forgotten Meal". (Speech no. 2 from the Competent Communication Manual)

For the Table Topics Session of the meeting, Subrato kept the audience involved and eager to participate by providing creative and imaginative scenarios to talk about.

BUSINESS SESSION

Bhushan reminded everyone to bring their Competent Leadership manual to meetings if they're taking on a meeting role (Timer, Grammarian, etc.)

Tiffany said that our club will be having a "pot-luck" meeting on December 15th- the final meeting of the year. More details would be given out via e-mails.

Meeting Recap: November 3, 2012

Susan, the toastmaster for the meeting, started the meeting with a thoughtful talk about the unpredictability of weather which went nice with the meeting theme "Mother Nature".

SPEAKERS

We had three prepared speeches in this meeting.

Kin Fung gave his Icebreaker Speech titled "About Kin Fung".(Speech no. 1 from the Competent Communication Manual)

Bhushan gave a humourous personal speech titled "Star Trek". (Speech no. 1 from the Advanced Communication Manual- The Entertaining Speaker)

Elizabeth gave a demonstration speech titled "Canoe" where she taught the audience how to make paper boats/canoes. (Speech no. 3 from the Advanced  Communication Manual- Speaking to Inform)

For the Table Topics Session of the meeting, Gavin kept the audience entertained and interested by providing props as the 'topic' for speakers.

BUSINESS SESSION

-Elizabeth, our club President had a few things to share

• The Division C Table Topics and Humourous Speech contest will be on November 6th, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at the Malton Community Center 3540 Morning Star Drive Mississauga, Ontario L4T 1Y2
• The District 86 Fall Conference: A Time for Leadership will be held in Kitchener from November 16-18, 2012.
• Christmas Pot-luck Meeting- the club is planning to make the last meeting of the year on December 15th, a special meeting. More information for this will be provided later.

- Susan reminded everyone to bring their Competant Leadership Manual to meetings with them. If you have a meeting role (grammarian, speech evaluator, etc) then you can give this manual to another member and have them evaluate your performance. Remember that completing the ten projects in this manual will help you receive your Competent Leader award.