PSNW meeting minutes, May 7, 2019

Public Speaking Northwest, Club #9406    

May 7, 2019

Meeting Theme “Spring flowers”

             Sergeant at Arms

Call Meeting to Order and Flag Salute                                                                    Julia

             President:                                                                                                             Mara           

Welcome Guests - Manoj, Tutta

Introduce Toastmaster

    

             Toastmaster:                                                                                                 Jean

Grammarian w/Florish        Lynne

Ah counter                                                                                                           Hilary

Timer                                                                                                                    Tobias

General Evaluator                                                                                                 Jim

             Speaking Segment:

1st Speaker   level 3, presentation mastery Nancy

    Title: Earthing: a primal connection

    Time: 5-7 minutes

2nd Speaker   level 1, icebreaker Uliana (best speaker)

    Title: The North Pole is here.

    Time: 4-6 minutes

3rd Speaker   level 1 MS Giri

    Title: Easiest motivational strategy

    Time: 5-7 minutes

Timer reports, cast ballots

      

Table Topics Master                                                                      Devi

Table topics: Tobias, Robert (best TT)

Timer reports, cast ballots

             Evaluation Segment:

  1st   Evaluator                                                                    Mara

  2nd   Evaluator                                                                    Barb (best evaluator)

  3rd   Evaluator                                                                    Julia

Timer reports, cast ballots

             Gate team report:

Grammarian w/Florish        Lynne

Ah counter                                                                                                           Hilary

General Evaluator                                                                                                 Jim

       Return Meeting to President   Mara

Closing Remarks and/ or Business

Present: Jim, Jean, Julia, John, Tobias, Barb, Uliana, Robert, Nancy, Lynne, Devi, Hilary, Giri, Mara, Manoj(guest), Tutta(guest).

Officers minutes, May 7, 2019

PSNW Officers meeting

May 7, 2019

Present: Jean, Lynne, Giri, Mara, Uliana, Nancy, Jim, Julia.

In an effort to induce variety to our monthly routine, Jean offered to have a funny contest this month inside our club. We discussed the possible format - all members would prepare a joke (from the internet is ok), 2-3 mins, also it'll leave time for 1-2 funny speeches. We could do round robin evaluations. We discussed the date - on May 21 Jean and Jim won't be here, and also we need time to promote the event to the club, so we decided to bump it to June 4. We need to ask people to be a chairman, food and decorations chairs.

Giri reported on our membership engagements, how he reached out to outstanding members, guests, and ghost members. Giri suggested that we promote our club to our friends, and Giri will contact the nearby businesses with club promotions because they are close. We discussed the possibility to offer gift cards for members who brought guests but didn't reach the action point. We need to let everyone know that we are on a hunting phase. Jean pointed out that our club have enough (10) points to earn president distinguished, but we won't get it if we have less than 20 members by June 30.

Julia said she won't be continuing, since she didn't like the competitiveness, and all the people are so good. We all tried to convince her to stay, but she remained convinced.

We went on to discuss who will take what role next term. No consensus was reached. We'll ask members to volunteer.

Jean offered for people to react to Uliana's minutes somehow, to let her know how she's doing. Thank you, Jean! I would gladly be in the know about how I'm doing! And thank you for your reaction emails! :) ) Email or FB is ok, any reaction is welcome.

Adjourned.

PSNW meeting minutes, April 30, 2019

Public Speaking Northwest, Club #9406    

April 30, 2019

Meeting Theme “The wonderful world of words”

             Sergeant at Arms

Call Meeting to Order and Flag Salute                                                                    Lynne

             President:                                                                                                         Mara           

Welcome Guests - Jarod

Introduce Toastmaster

    

             Toastmaster:                                                                                                 Jim

Grammarian w/Hoopla        Kate

Ah counter                                                                                                           Devi

Timer                                                                                                                    Jean

General Evaluator                                                                                                 Uliana

             Speaking Segment:

1st Speaker   level 1, project 2, presentation mastery Giri

    Title: Easiest motivational strategy?

    Time: 5-7 minutes

2nd Speaker   level 1, project 2, presentation mastery Kate

    Title: Learning to eat- it’s harder than you think

    Time: 5-7 minutes

3rd Speaker   level 5, effective coaching Mara

    Title: Coaching workshop recap

    Time: 5-7 minutes

Timer reports, cast ballots

      

Table Topics Master                                                                                  Hilary

Table topics: Uliana, Robert, Nancy (best TT)

Timer reports, cast ballots

             Evaluation Segment:

  1st   Evaluator                                                                    Nancy

  2nd   Evaluator                                                                    Lynne (best evaluator)

  3rd   Evaluator                                                                    Robert

Timer reports, cast ballots

             Gate team report:

Grammarian w/Hoopla        Kate

Ah counter                                                                                                           Devi

General Evaluator                                                                                                Uliana

       Return Meeting to President   Mara

Closing Remarks and/ or Business

Present: Jim, Jean, Uliana, Robert, Nancy, Lynne, Devi, Hilary, Kate, Giri, Mara, Jarod(guest).