Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 10-27-20

 

Increase Your Presentation Skills the Friendly, Fun and Easy Way – Join Toastmasters! Come zoom with us at 11:45.

Announcements:  Next week, November 3^rd we’ll have an officers’ meeting at 11 am.

We’ll all receive a free Path from Toastmasters International. Wonderful!

 Our Meeting Toastmaster: Nancy created a fun agenda highlighting her theme, “The Origins of Halloween. Throughout the meeting she offered Halloween tidbits like black is for the death of the old year and bonfire was originally bone fire.

 Our President: Barb welcomed our guests from last week, Bob and Midori. We hope they’ll join.

 Grammarian and Word of the Day – Adilene chose ‘Other-Worldly’ to fit with our Halloween theme.

Ah Counter – Lynne volunteered to count our ahs, ums, and other speech distractions. This will help us avoid them when we talk and become better speakers.

 Timer – Kate used the green, yellow, and red cards to help us keep our talks on time.

 General Evaluator – Jean evaluated the meeting and found it to be excellent.

 Our 1^st Speaker – Robert entitled his talk, “Playing Games with Sheldon.” He shared 3 unique childhood games involving a silver dollar, a penny, and a broomstick. He told us about a salt-shaker game he and his friends played in college while they were waiting for food. We were eager to play his games but alas, we were on zoom.

Our 2^nd Speaker – Lucelly’s title, “Wish It, Plan It, Do It,” sparked our curiosity. Lucelly delivered. She left Puerto Rico with a master’s in Industrial Psychology. When she moved to the U.S., she knew the quote by Wittgenstein, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” applied to her. She is now studying English to understand the questions for her boards as a Behavior Analyst Professional. She shared her proposal to study every day using the mock test for her exam. She has one year to pass it. We believe in you Lucelly.

 Our 1st Evaluator – Jim enjoyed Robert’s games and noted that Robert shared a “unique slice of history” when kids made up their own games and played them for hours.

 Our 2^nd Evaluator – Barb admired Lucelly’s persistence and drive to learn English. She noted Lucelly’s wonderful gestures and vocal variety. Barb also marveled at Lucelly’s improvement in speaking English.

 Our Table Topics Master – Mara set the stage for an extended story about Halloween, a mom, and trick or treating. Everyone took turns in expanding the story. So fun!

 General Evaluator – Jean enjoyed many parts of the meeting including Nancy’s Halloween tidbits and agenda, the fabulous talks, and the fun table topics.

Our Members in Attendance – Lynne, Nancy, Jim, Barb, Lucelly, Kate Mara, Adilene, Robert, Jean

 Our Guests in Attendance – Bob and Midori

Motion to Adjourn – Nancy,  Second – Jean

Your Secretary,

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 10-20-2020

 

Want to learn the skills to become a polished speaker? – Join Toastmasters

Announcements:  We’ve created a promotion team to investigate Facebook Live. As a team we will be learning how Facebook Live works and then present it to our members. The goal is to promote our polished speakers.

 

Our President: Barb opened the meeting and welcomed our guests, Mary, Midori, and Bob.

 

Our Meeting Toastmaster: Lynne opened her agenda with the theme, “Falling Back.” Throughout the meeting Lynne shared Daylight Savings Time news like November 1^st we will fall back 1 hour.

 

Our Gate Team was:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Kate told us to use the word, “Anticipate” when we speak. The idea is to build our vocabulary. Kate said, “We did well today in using the word.”

 

Ah Counter – Kate counted our “ahs” and “ums” and other filler words to help us avoid them when we speak. This will help us to become better speakers.

 

Timer – Lynn  showed us the green, red, and yellow cards to help keep our speeches on time. This prevents us from taking too much time from other speakers and throwing the timing for our agenda off.

 

General Evaluator – Nancy evaluated the meeting at the end. She shared compliments and gave suggestions to make the meeting even better. This will help us, as leaders, to create well-run meetings that people enjoy.

 

Our 1^st Speaker – Warren spoke first and entitled his speech, “Light Their Fire.” He offered statistics on working from home during this pandemic. He shared the high rate of burnout feelings at Amazon and Microsoft. He also said managers could help employees handle working at home by contacting them personally with compliments on their work.

 

Our 2^nd Speaker – Jim gave his talk entitled, “A Serious Beginning.” He shared 2 stories from his childhood that influenced him to adopt a serious mindset. He is striving to add humor to his presentations by following the Humorous Pathway in Toastmasters. Jim knows using humor will makes any speaker’s talks more enjoyable for the audience. That’s what he’s aiming for.

 

Our 1st Evaluator – Barb felt Warren’s talk was inspiring, helpful, and interesting. She liked his suggestions for making online meetings better.

 

Our 2^nd Evaluator – Mara liked Jim’s true stories and thought that he captured the members feelings.  She would have liked knowing how old he was at the time. Jim blurted out, “6 years-old.”

 

Our Table Topics Master – Jean requested that each speaker finish the story sentences she provided and use “anticipate,” the word of the day within their stories.

 

Mara finished the story about a monster buried in a pile of wet leaves who feared for his life.

 

Barb completed the story about Little Mary Sue who bit into a chestnut full of tiny worms.

 

Mary, our guest, related the story about an old crow shivering while sitting on a scarecrow.

 

Jinxin told the story about a big black bat with extra sharp teeth and her fear for her cat.

 

General Evaluator – Nancy gave a thorough evaluation with compliments and suggestions.

 

Humorist – Lucelly quizzed us with 3 Halloween jokes. She fooled us all.

 

Our Members in Attendance – Nancy, Warren, Lynn, Barb, Kate, Jim, Lucelly, Robert, Jinxin, Lynne, Mara, and Jean

 

Our Guests in Attendance – Mary, Midori, and Bob

 

Motion to Adjourn –  Jim, Second – Robert

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

 

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes – 10/12/20 –

 WANT TO DEVELOP YOUR SPEAKING CONFIDENCE? – JOIN TOASTMASTERS. IT’S FUN!

 Sergeant-at-Arms: Lynne opened the meeting with our mission statement and flag salute.

 Our President: Barb welcomed guests – Janice, Emily, and Kevin

 Our Meeting Toastmaster: Kate spoke about her theme – “The Beautiful Salish Sea.” She showed us a map of its size and fiords . Throughout the meeting she shared interesting tidbits about it and its native people.

 Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Adilene introduced the word of the day, “ENTHRALL.” Adilene kept track of the members who used enthrall. The purpose is to build our vocabulary.

 Ah Counter – Janice counted the number of times members used ahs, ums, and filler words to help us avoid them and become better speakers.

 Timer – Janice was also our timer and presented the green, yellow, and red cards so our speakers learn to keep within their time limits.

 General Evaluator – Lynne’s job is to evaluate the meeting.

 Our 1^st Speaker – Glenn gave his first speech, the Ice Breaker. He entitled it, “Cultured.” He spoke with praise about growing up in Hawaii.

 He experienced culture shock when coming to Oakland and shared a story about ordering some fast food at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

 Glenn studied graphic design at CSC in California. He also joined Toastmasters in California.

 Glenn moved to Washington State as a graphic designer. He joined our club during this pandemic to connect with people and to become an even better writer and speaker. Welcome Glenn, you are a treasured member.

 Our 2^nd Speaker – President, Barb’s talk, “Making Critical Decisions,” persuaded us to vote in this election because these are critical times for our country. She gave us guidelines for our voting thinking and actions:

• Realize all issues are complex.
• Check the facts.
• Look at the whole picture not just one issue.
• Explore each candidate’s decisions and data.
• Beware of their misleading words.

 We marveled at how balanced and well-delivered Barb spoke. She never gave away how she would vote.

Excellent guidelines, Barb. Your call to action – VOTE – was very convincing.

 Our 1st Evaluator – Robert evaluated Glenn’s talk and offered personal information, suggestions, and ended complimenting Glenn for his calmness and eloquence.

 Our 2^nd Evaluator – Warren enthusiastically gave Barb compliments and praised her for tackling such a difficult topic, for her appropriate gestures on zoom, and for her story examples. He also gave her kudos for not revealing how she will vote.

 Our Table Topics Master – Adilene asked Jim, “What eating contests would you like to enter.” Jim said he wouldn’t enter a hot dog contest because they look disgusting.

Jim spoke about a woman who goes around the country entering eating contests and winning. She makes big bucks and only weighs 130 lbs. In the end, Jim wants to be a watcher not an eater.

 General Evaluator – Lynne evaluated the meeting from top to bottom telling us what we did well and areas where we could do even better.

She thought we handled the heavy winds, the power outages, and our efforts to keep the meeting flowing quite well.

Our Members in Attendance – Barb, Lynn, Kate, Nancy, Warren, Lynne, Glen, Lucelly, Robert, Mara, Jim, Adilene, and Jean

Our Guests in Attendance – Kevin, Janice, and Emily were our guests. We hope to see them at the next Tuesday at 12 pm since they all praised the meeting and it’s structure.

Motion to Adjourn – Jim  Second – Jean

Your Secretary,

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 10/06/2020

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

October 6, 2020

 

 

 Our Toastmaster was with the theme was couplets.

 

Our Sergeant at Arms Lynne called our meeting to order.

 

Our President, Barbopened our meeting.

 

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Lynne

Word of the day was Poetic

Ah Counter – Lynne

Timer - Glenn

General Evaluator – Lucelly

 

Our Speakers were Warren with a commencement address called “There is a Reason You Have Two Ears and Only On Mouth, and Jinxin with the Good dirt on Novice Gardening.

 

Our Evaluators were Giri and Kate

 

Our Table Topics Master was Robert

 

Our Table Topic Speakers were Nancy, Lynn, Lynne, Kate and Adilene.

 

Our Humorist was Kate.

 

Members in Attendance were Lynne, Barb, Glenn, Warren, Jinxin, Robert, Giri, Kate, Lucelly, Lynn and Adilene.

 

 

Motion to Adjourn: Kate    Second: Robert