"ARE YOU READY FOR YOUR KINDNESS CHALLENGE?"

“Are you Ready for your Kindness Challenge?”

May 25^th Pania Toastmaster’s meeting was entertained by Carol who gave a 10 to 12 minute speech. The speech illustrated the style of presentation she does to promote one of her businesses. The props used created a very colourful appearance within the meeting room and this also enhanced the overall atmosphere of the meeting.

Mike evaluated Carol and he found both commendations and recommendations, which is in line with the ‘CRC’ method of evaluation, ‘commend, recommend, commend’. When this method is used to appraise a speech the recommendations are more easily accepted by the speaker as they appear very helpful as opposed to being critical.

Carol finished her speech off by offering us all ‘The 7 Day Kindness Challenge’ and Mike finished off by suggesting he and Carol discuss the projects objectives to decide if they had actually been meet satisfactorily.

Stephanie created six most interesting Table Topics for; Craig, Darryl, Mike, Carol, Helen and Patrick to reply to in one minute. Table Topics is an excellent way of practicing spontaneous speaking. This can be a most useful tool to have especially when it comes to work interviews or answering teenager’s questions.

During the business session Craig gave a quick review of the recent District Conference in Wellington where Amy from Napier Club was placed third in the International Speech Contest and Craig was unplaced in the District Evaluation Contest.

Patrick went onto evaluate each Table Topic speaker in a very enthusiastic manner. Patrick was actually asked to give a table topic speech and he very cleverly asked another member to evaluate himself. This led to a complete evaluation and the presentation of the ‘Best Table Topic’ award going to Darryl rounded off that part of the meeting very nicely.

The General Evaluator, Helen, summarised the meeting and evaluated the evaluators.                                                                       This was followed by the presentation of the Best Speaker award to Carol and Best Evaluator’s award to Patrick.

Helen also thanked Sandy for doing a fine job as Chairman of the meeting. This was Sandy’s first time in the role and as she has been unable to attend a meeting for several weeks, a very big round of applause must go out to her!

Well done Members and see you all at next weeks’ meeting.