Paul opened the meeting, reflecting on the importance of growth within Toastmasters.
Marcelo as Toastmaster welcomed everyone and expertly guided the meeting this evening.
Tom D was our timekeeper; reminding us the importance of time.
Jack was our Table Topics Master, using the theme of emotions as the basis for impromptu speaking for our members and guests.
Leanne was our Topics Evaluator; giving encouragement and feedback to all 8 table topics!
Rachel; introduced our new guests for the evening.
We had 2 great speeches tonight (their speech evaluators in brackets):
- Scott– “How Diversity Affects Netflix” – a thoroughly engaging and insightful talk around the benefits of having diversity to solve problems (Charlotte)
- Tian – “The 93%” – Turning the concept of a speech on it’s head, that content is only 7% of a speech (Paul)
It was a lively and Spring fresh meeting; congratulations to Ga Lok winning best Table Topic and Leanne who won best Evaluator.
Peter, the Area 58 Director also visited to present Ga Lok with the Area 58 Evaluation contest winner award . Ga Lok will be representing Area 58 in the Division K contest this Saturday 23rd April. It’s a full day event with workshops, networking and of course the speech and evaluation contest. Free to all members, more details and registration can be found here
Next meeting Tues 3rd May, see you all there.
