Today, was a red letter day for Pania Toastmaster's Club, A. we had to quickly find a new venue after the Blind Foundation closed their rooms from outside meetings because of coronavirus and B. we were treated to two excellent speeches on 'styles' , Leadership & Communication!
Anna, as Toastmaster, did a great job of drawing the disjointed program together at The Community Co Lab, attached to the Taradale Town Hall, which was a very spacious and airy venue, even if the acoustics were a little echoee!
The two speakers were Michael (Communication Styles) and Marc (Leadership Styles) both speaking from their respective Pathway assignments and they certainly both demonstrated their specific styles through their interesting and enlightening presentations.
They were well evaluated by Benita (Michael) and Pedro (Marc) who gave them suitable praise and were able to offer some suggestions for improvement. This was Pedro's first speech evaluation and he showed that he will be a worthwhile evaluator for future speakers.
Carol ran the Table Topic's session along the broad lines keeping positive, healthy and happy, appropriate in the current climate.
Four speakers covered their topics well, Peter,Hannah,Sahar and Sandy and Hannah was selected as the Best Table Topic speaking about indoor games she has played. Peter spoke on enjoyable activities (Skiing- if coronavirus allows it this year),Sahar (spending two weeks working from home) and Sandy (who would she like to spend the two weeks isolation with!!)
Mehran, as Timekeeper assisted Anna to keep us pretty well to time.
The General Evaluation and Table Topics Evaluation were forgone due to the meeting needed to discuss the current health problem and it was decided to have a break from regular face to face meeting until 23rd April(when it is to be reassessed) and that on-line meetings will be arranged for 2nd & 16th April.
Best Speaker; Marc
Best Evaluator; Pedro
Best Table Topics ; Hannah
Everyone please keep in touch and look out for details of the on-line meetings, we also take this opportunity to wish Lou well with her Division Contest Humorous Speech which is to be held online on Saturday 18th April (The Division Contest in Dannevirke on this Saturday having been cancelled)
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