"LIFE'S ADVENTURES!"

GE’s Report for Thursday the 12^th of March -

Short and sharp with elbow bumps

·      A fast efficient, meeting, Paula as Toastmaster set the scene –putting the agenda on recycled paper and she laid down the ‘challenge to do the right thing’ in terms of being environmentally friendly.  She suggested cutting out handshaking was appropriate at the moment and introduced the elbow bump which continued throughout.

·      Laurel read the mission statement with vigour, great modulation and clarity.

·      Craig’s introduction of Hannah’s icebreaker, ’Life’s adventures’ was warm and welcoming.   ‘She impressed me with her confidence’.  He summarised his evaluation effectively, after giving great feedback on pause and suggesting Hannah slow down her speech rate.It was an excellent Ice Breaker though, congratulations Hannah!

·      Mehran was thrown in the deep end with evaluating Peter who has been in Toastmasters for over 40 years and has run a professional speaking course for many years. He was very positive and shared that it was hard for him to find a recommendation – perhaps Peter could open up to bigger gestures and smile more often.

·      Sahar’s table topic focused on a time machine – at the ideal age people would like to go back to.  This brought up many creative ideas and stories for the eight people who took part as there was more time at the end of the meeting for more to have a go.  Sahar has mastered the art of smiling and has a warm and engaging style. She put on the board different ages and asked the audience to talk to them. She could have given a specific time to each participant to make it more challenging. But it was a topic that allowed everyone to talk easily too.

·      Lou as the table topics evaluator, gave specific feedback, was short and sharp and used humour well.

*     Anna summarised the meeting extremely well as General Evaluator and Paula, who had run the meeting very succesfully and in plenty of time, allowed us some extra Table Topics, so everybody had the opportunity to speak!

Well done everyone involved!!(ED)

Best evaluator - Lou

Best speech  - Hannah

Best table topic  - Craig