11 members attended Pania Toastmaster's meeting on 26th June and enjoyed a varied and interesting programme, chaired as Toastmaster of the day by Graeme. Graeme's programme was clear and concise which commenced on time and ended similarly, the one speech was presented by Craig and titled "All is Lost or All is Not Lost!"
Club No 1996
Thursday 26 June 2014
Friday 20 June 2014
"IT'S ALL GOING SWIMMINGLY with EEZY PEEZY PIKELETS!"
The two speeches given yesterday at Pania's meeting went along the the subject above and we got to taste the results of one of them!!
But first congratulations to Wendy, our Toastmaster of the day, on the preparation and thought put into the programme. Not only was the agenda a visual masterpiece( typical of Wendy's efforts in this regard) but she also had a Winter Solstice theme along with details about Matariki (Maori New Year). Well done, Wendy always a top effort!
Our first speaker, Carol, was introduced by Jen who gave the objectives of Project Five 'Your Body Speaks'. This is all about gestures, facial expression and eye contact. Carol spoke of her love of swimming and this gave her ample opportunity to explore and utilise body language and this she did very, very well. Freestyle,Breaststroke,Backstroke,Butterfly, Side Stroke,Dog Paddle were given due attention as was synchronized swimming. You sue had the right moves which made subject choice great.
In her evaluation, Jen gave her praise on achieving the speech objectives, beautiful word pictures and natural body language. Jen's suggestion for improvement was that she could have dressed for the part!! (mid winter-even in the Hawkes Bay- I don't think so!)
Darryl introduced our next speaker, Barbara with her "Selling a Product" speech from Speciality Speeches manual with the interesting title of " Eezy Peezy Pikelets". I was impressed with Barbara's preparation , cooking is not easy but Barbara took it to another level and offering samples to all the audience was an absolute winner. "Yummy!". What stood out was Barbara's ability to keep the conversation flowing from beginning to end and 12 minutes is a long time particularly while cooking.
Darryl congratulated Barbara on her efforts,-achieved the objectives, kept our interest, explained the steps taken, challenged us, gave background as to when it all started and the use of word pictures. He suggested the the table used for cooking be moved closer to the audience and to show the contents of the bowl after either stirring or adding ingredients.
Table topics were next and introduced by Mike, he told us that he would start a sentence and it was up to the speaker to finish it! Laurence had "there were six eggs in the nest", he did very well linking it to the eggs Barbara used in her speech- well done!
Ian "I took a short cut through the fence and came face to face with a cow", responded well drawing on years of experience and concluded by saying "it's just as well it was not a bull!"
Graeme " I was completely submerged and found that" Graeme never really answered the question allowing distractions to interfere with his thinking.
Jen, "it was completely dark and smelly" she showed plenty of imagination along with excellent humour.
General Evaluator, Laurence, provided a very good summary of the whole meeting. Wendy was rightly praised for a well run meeting, using Matariki and standing up to make announcements. Laurence also provided feedback for both Evaluators. Thank you Laurence , your comments are always appreciated.
Best Speaker; Barbara
Best Evaluator; Darryl
Best Table Topic; Laurence.
Another excellent meeting, thank you everyone for participating and helping one another, let's do it all agian next Thursday when the Toastmaster is Graeme.
Thank you Graeme for the report.
But first congratulations to Wendy, our Toastmaster of the day, on the preparation and thought put into the programme. Not only was the agenda a visual masterpiece( typical of Wendy's efforts in this regard) but she also had a Winter Solstice theme along with details about Matariki (Maori New Year). Well done, Wendy always a top effort!
Our first speaker, Carol, was introduced by Jen who gave the objectives of Project Five 'Your Body Speaks'. This is all about gestures, facial expression and eye contact. Carol spoke of her love of swimming and this gave her ample opportunity to explore and utilise body language and this she did very, very well. Freestyle,Breaststroke,Backstroke,Butterfly, Side Stroke,Dog Paddle were given due attention as was synchronized swimming. You sue had the right moves which made subject choice great.
In her evaluation, Jen gave her praise on achieving the speech objectives, beautiful word pictures and natural body language. Jen's suggestion for improvement was that she could have dressed for the part!! (mid winter-even in the Hawkes Bay- I don't think so!)
Darryl introduced our next speaker, Barbara with her "Selling a Product" speech from Speciality Speeches manual with the interesting title of " Eezy Peezy Pikelets". I was impressed with Barbara's preparation , cooking is not easy but Barbara took it to another level and offering samples to all the audience was an absolute winner. "Yummy!". What stood out was Barbara's ability to keep the conversation flowing from beginning to end and 12 minutes is a long time particularly while cooking.
Darryl congratulated Barbara on her efforts,-achieved the objectives, kept our interest, explained the steps taken, challenged us, gave background as to when it all started and the use of word pictures. He suggested the the table used for cooking be moved closer to the audience and to show the contents of the bowl after either stirring or adding ingredients.
Table topics were next and introduced by Mike, he told us that he would start a sentence and it was up to the speaker to finish it! Laurence had "there were six eggs in the nest", he did very well linking it to the eggs Barbara used in her speech- well done!
Ian "I took a short cut through the fence and came face to face with a cow", responded well drawing on years of experience and concluded by saying "it's just as well it was not a bull!"
Graeme " I was completely submerged and found that" Graeme never really answered the question allowing distractions to interfere with his thinking.
Jen, "it was completely dark and smelly" she showed plenty of imagination along with excellent humour.
General Evaluator, Laurence, provided a very good summary of the whole meeting. Wendy was rightly praised for a well run meeting, using Matariki and standing up to make announcements. Laurence also provided feedback for both Evaluators. Thank you Laurence , your comments are always appreciated.
Best Speaker; Barbara
Best Evaluator; Darryl
Best Table Topic; Laurence.
Another excellent meeting, thank you everyone for participating and helping one another, let's do it all agian next Thursday when the Toastmaster is Graeme.
Thank you Graeme for the report.
Wednesday 11 June 2014
"'TO BE OR NOT TO BE A CHILD OF AFRICA"
That could have been the question at today's meeting of Pania Toastmasters, attended by 13 members who enjoyed a Football World Cup prelude as a theme meeting run by the Toastmaster of the day, Craig, whose agenda was cased in Football players 'speak' and adorned with soccer transfers.
Monday 9 June 2014
'LIFE AFTER WINDOWS XP"
The Title of David's speech today at Pania's meeting overseen by Darryl our Toastmaster of the day, who welcomed us all. A small but vocal turnout and a great meeting was to follow.A standout feature of today's meeting was the Agenda, extremely well set out and in colour, with visuals of various computers through the ages. This was excellent work Darryl and it also tied in very nicely with David's Speech.
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