Another fabulous meeting for Toastmasters Pania on Thursday the 27th
of Feb
Our experienced Toastmaster for the day was Craig who ran the meeting
with a reminder that it was National Polar Bear day as well as National Pancake
Day. Graeme called the meeting to order with no clown horn (thank goodness!) and
proceeded to read the club mission statement for us - it is always good to be
reminded of the over-arching goals for our time at Toastmasters.
We kicked straight into table topics ran by Laurel with table topics
based about When, What and Why. Carol had
to tell us about a recent mistake that ended up in stinky mess, Benita told us
about a few temptations she had partaken in, Guest Kerry regaled us about a bad
hair day and Graeme, well Graeme never sticks to the topic so who knows what he
spoke about? Lou evaluated the 4 table
topic speakers and had commendations and recommendations for everyone except
Kerry - who was awarded the best table topic of the day as well!
Paula gave us a warm introduction to our first speech for the meeting
presented by Pedro. It was great that Paula gave us some background information
into Pedro's journey through Toastmasters so far and reminded us that it was
only Pedro's 2nd speech. She also gave some objectives and had some specific
things to look out for. Pedro's very topical speech titled “How not to prepare
for a pandemic” took us through some information about the current
Coronavirus and what was not going so well in the fight against its inevitable
spread. Paula's evaluation covered commendations and recommendations and then
ended on a positive.
Our second speaker Marc was introduced by Anna who let the audience
know that this was a practice run for Marc to be representing Pania Club at the
upcoming speech contest. As we were going to be completing a group evaluation so
Anna also helpfully outlined what we should be looking for to ensure Marc got
some valuable feedback - half of the room focussed on Delivery and the other
half focussed on Content. Marc's speech titled "Sex, Religon and Politics" was a
thought provoking speech about all the things we are safer to avoid in speeches.
The purpose was to make us think, to make us realise how lucky we are to live in
NZ (although we have our own terrible statistics on some issues) and to provoke
the audience into trying to make a difference by talking about and researching
issues such as rape, rascism, politics, gender inequality. We are a proud club
to have Marc representing us at the contest with this hard hitting
speech.
Anna
completed an evaluation on Marc's speech covering some great points and using the
old rhetoric "Pause, Pitch and Pace" which we can all always apply in our own
speeches as well. The group was then invited to cover anything that Anna may
have missed resulting in a few extra points for Marc to work on - I am sure he
took some valuable feedback from this session.
Time Keeper Hannah finished off with an update on how we ran, and
then after a quick general evaluation (carried out efficiently by Tamara) of everyone we finished our meeting for another
week.
Thanks as always to our Sergeant at arms for having the room set up
for us.
Best Speaker : Marc
Best Evaluator: Anna
Best Table Topic: Kerry
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