'SPECTRUM CARE"

"Spectrum Care", was the name given to Laurence's Company with his speech from 'The Public Relations' manual based on a project called 'crisis management' at Pania Club's meeting on Thursday 24th April, due to the long holiday weekend and also school holidays, attendance was down on the usual numbers but a great meeting was had with lots of entertainment under the guidance of Toastmaster Graeme.

Laurence was required to talk about an issue for 4-6 minutes and then respond to a question and answer session for 3-5 minutes. The issue, Laurence was discussing, revolved around a patient under Spectrum Care's management that somehow got out of the Company's grounds and drowned in a pond. Spectrum Care was a Company running care facilities for the elderly.
Laurence gave a plausible account on what probably happened while reminding us (the News media) it would be sometime before the facts were known. Spectrum Care, he said took full responsibility for the tragic loss! and went on to explain the day to day operation of the Company, giving well reasoned opinion as to safety procedures.
He had obviously put a great deal of thought into the assignment.
The question & answer session went on for 10 minutes, Jen (Christchurch Sunday Times) and Graeme (Auckland Tribunal) questioned the validity of Laurence's comments especially when he said the accident was not through lack of funding or low staff ratio- in fact he was not blaming the staff fro what happened.
Both Jen & Gareme had Laurence grasping for answers- a vigorous session indeed! well done to everyone.

Ian gave his evaluation praising Laurence on how thorough he had been, giving in depth thoughts and making the whole assignment believable. He also praised Jen & Graeme for keeping Laurence "on his toes".
General business concentrated mainly on the new two month forward programme, with Graeme asking for comments relating to individual tasks, receiving good response.
The Table Topics session was well worth a mention.Mike had given the topics considerable thought and told us that he was giving a basic location i.e. "swimming in a pond" added to which were four obscure unrelated words i.e. "happy,orange,appear,crusty", those words had to be included in the presentation and would be held up so the audience could see them.Needless to say everyone  clamoured to have a go-'yeah right!'
Darryl was given "a day in your garden" (bored,banana,violet,ketchup) and was able to include them all and still make sense-well done Darryl. Graeme "away on a beach" (elephant,sycamore,velvet,custard) maybe next time!
Jen "down by a river" (fabulous,transparent,carpet,crumb) and a good response. Interestingly the topics took 1m33secs,38secs and 48 secs only-one wonders why?

Darryl's evaluation was very kind to everyone, especially those receiving a Table Topic! Mike received praise for the challenge offered and the effort made. Darryl only had one uncertainty and that was whether to award the Best Table Topic to himself or Jen-Jen won!!

Jen as Geberal Evaluator echoed the thoughts of everyone, when she said "that was a really enjoyable meeting with lots of fun moments".

Best Speaker; Laurence
Best Evaluator; Darryl
Best Table Topics; Jen

Join us next Thursday for more education, entertainment and FUN.

Thanks Graeme for the report.