Public Speaking Northwest Minutes, September 22, 2020

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

September 22, 2020

 

Announcements: You can check out online Toastmasters meetings all around the world.

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 Our Toastmaster was Jinxin (her very first time as meeting Toastmaster) with the theme Honey.  It is national honey month.

 Our Sergeant at Arms Lynne called our meeting to order. She is also our Zoom host.

 Our President Barb opened our meeting.

 Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Glenn

Word of the day was Sublime.

Ah Counter – Glenn

Timer - Lynne

General Evaluator – Barb

 Our Speaker was Giri with 4Cs to Personal Change.  Since we had our second speaking time open, Giri gave a great 10 – 15 minute speech.  There was a great exchange of ideas and discussion with the audience.  

 Our Evaluator was Kate.

 Our Table Topics Master was Lucelly with Fall as her topics theme.

 Our Table Topic Speakers were Robert, Kate, Glenn and Nancy. Did you know Kate has an apple press?  Glenn said that he made Chess Pie. Robert’s family has lots of fall birthdays, so they celebrate them all on one day.  That is clearly not enough cake!

 Our Humorist was Warren with a story of a nun. Nancy also had a story from her recent road trip.

 Members in Attendance were Lynne, Barb, Jinxin, Glenn, Giri, Robert, Lucelly, Kate, Warren and Nancy

Motion to Adjourn: Nancy   Second: Robert

 

Minutes respectfully submitted by Nancy Hovan Carpenter, standing in for Secretary, Jean Tracy.

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes for 9-15-2020

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes for 9-15-2020

 

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Announcements: Glenn has officially joined our club. Welcome, Glenn!

 

Our Meeting Toastmaster: Lynne who had each member wear a fun hat for “Wear a Hat Day.”

 

Our President: Barb welcomed our guest Ray and asked him to share a little about himself. What an interesting person!

 

Our Gate Team:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Jim chose “Shindig” to fit Lynne’s theme.

 

Ah Counter – Jim caught a few “Ahs” and “Ums” from several of us. Our goal is to avoid using them.

 

Timer –  Glenn, as our timer for the first time, kept our speeches, table topics and evaluations within their limits using his green, yellow and red cards. He did a super job.

 

General Evaluator – Barb’s role was to evaluate the meeting from top to bottom. Her evaluation is below.

 

Our 1^st Speaker – Kate entitled her talk, “How to Create a More Welcoming TM Club.”

She suggested 4 steps to having new members introduce themselves and she used them in her Table Topics below. Such a great technique!

 

Our 2^nd Speaker – Mara entitled her speech, “Mara, You’ve Got Some ‘Splaining To Do” We’ve missed Mara for over 6 months. During that time, she started a coaching business, moved to a new home, took on a full-time job, sold her previous home, and is starting her coaching business again. She will end her full-time job in a few weeks and be able to attend our meetings regularly again. We missed you, Mara, and feel so pleased to have you back.

 

Our 1st Evaluator – Jean praised Kate for speaking clearly, audibly, and with well-paced pauses. She complimented her for sharing a welcoming technique for introducing new members.

 

Our 2^nd Evaluator – Giri enthusiastically praised Mara for speaking with such serene inner comfort. He also liked how she looked right into the Zoom camera which is hard to do.

 

Our Table Topics Master – Kate’s role was to choose members to speak for 2 minutes practicing her introduction technique.

 

Robert, Jinxin and Jim each introduced themselves using Kate’s 4 stems from her talk:

 

1.    My name is…

2.    It is pronounced…

3.    I prefer to be called…

4.    I prefer you not call me…

 

We learned new information from each table topic speaker about themselves. Thanks for this great technique, Kate.  

 

General Evaluator – Barb evaluated the meeting from beginning to end with special kudos to Lynne for her fun “Wear a Hat Day” theme, and to Giri for his comfortable style in evaluating. She also praised Kate for her talk and using it in her table topics too.

 

Our Guest, Ray, said he felt warmly welcomed and enjoyed the structure and organization of the meeting. We hope he joins us again.

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes for 9-8-20

 

Want to deliver a well-organized speech your listeners will love? – Join Toastmasters

Announcements:  Next Tuesday Toastmaster Lynne is declaring it “Wear a Hat Day.” Pease wear a hat - the funnier the better.

 

Our Meeting Toastmaster: As Jim unveiled Michelangelo’s, David, he announced his theme, “The Beauty of Art.”

 

Our President: Barb

 

Our Gate Team:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Lynne shared her role and advised us to use the word, “Artistic” if we spoke during the meeting.                                                 

Ah Counter – Lynne told us her role was to count ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ to help us avoid using them and improve our talks.

Timer –  Warren, as our timer, kept our speeches, table topics and evaluations within their limits using his green, yellow and red cards.

General Evaluator – Robert noted the meeting started on time. He complemented Giri to step in as evaluator for Lucelly even though he also gave a speech. Jim also volunteered to be Toastmaster at the last minute.

 

Our 1^st Speaker – Lucelly entitled her talk, “Antecedent Intervention on How to Change Unwanted Behavior.” Being a mom, she told us it’s important to know what motivates a child’s behavior before we intervene. She gave the pretend behavior of her daughter hating vegetables but loving dessert. Then she shared the winning formula for changing her unwanted veggie behavior. If you want the formula, contact Lucelly.

 

Our 2^nd Speaker – Giri entitled his speech, “My First Safari.” Giri’s family experienced excitement from elephants and later a lion chasing their vehicle. Although they were frightened, their driver was not. He wanted to scare Giri’s family so they would never forget their first Safari. Giri remembers it well.

 

Our 1st Evaluator – Giri complimented Lucelly for including her audience (us) by asking us structured questions. He also enjoyed her lively expressions while presenting her talk.

 

Our 2^nd Evaluator – Mara praised Giri for sending a link to the members with beautiful safari pictures. She enjoyed how his story progressed with both suspense and action.

 

Our Table Topics Master – Jean, using pictures from her boys’ childhood, pretended they were from the young lives of famous artists. Our members, as art critics, were to discuss how the pictures showed the beginnings of these art masters.

 

Barb noted the hand showed Salvador Dali’s strange art with wires springing from the fingers and red veins in the hands.

 

Robert observed Georgia O’Keeffe’s white leaves with different sizes.

 

Glenn thought the American Eagle with it’s head turned toward peace was quite a different style for Henri Matisse.

 

Lynne pointed out the cubes in the colorful geometric designs of Pablo Picasso.

 

General Evaluator – Robert evaluated the meeting from beginning to end.

 

Our Guest, Glenn, is in the process of joining.

 

Linda, our past president, brought us special excitement from California where she now lives. We spent extra time after the meeting catching up with her. What a treat!

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 9.01.2020

 Learn How to Become an Accomplished Confident Public Speaker – Join Toastmasters

Announcements:  Next week a leadership opportunity is available – Become our meeting’s Toastmaster. .

 

Our Meeting Toastmaster: Warren

 

Our President: Jean stepped in for Barb.

 

Our Gate Team was:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Jean chose “Picturesque”

Ah Counter – Jean

Timer – Robert

General Evaluator – Kate

 

Our Speaker – Giri entitled his talk, ‘Making Peace with Your Shadow Self.’ Giri mentioned the famous Carl Jung who spoke of the Shadow Self behind our consciousness awareness. Giri used dieting as an example. 98% of dieters don’t achieve their goals or gain back the pounds they lost because of their Shadow Self. It tells them, “You’ve been so good. Take a break.” Then it bombards them with the sights and smells of the foods they’ve missed, for example, ice cream. Giri suggested we make peace with this Shadow Self by pausing and examining our thoughts and feelings and then reinforcing our determination to stay on track.

 

Thank you Giri for giving this talk on such short notice. You are truly professional.

 

Our Evaluator – Lynne complimented Giri on using an example, dieting, that we all can connect with. She also suggested he challenge himself by practicing during the week on Zoom. She told how she always enjoys Giri’s talks because they are personally motivating.

 

 

Our Table Topics Master – Mara invited us to speak on the spur of the moment about ‘School.’ – She asked chosen members specific questions.

 

Glenn spoke of a fond memory when he was in kindergarten during snack time. It was in Hawaii. He and his friend would sit in the sun with a cup of cold milk eating a very sugary butter cookie.

 

Jim told of being at the front board completing with other kids while adding up a long list of numbers. Jim always won because he’d add the first column in his head, then carry over the last number to the next column and add it to those numbers. He kept his speedy secret method to himself.

Jim felt like he was cheating even though he knew he wasn’t.

 

Robert shared his favorite extra-curricular activity. He and his college friends invited every girl from every organization on campus to their Friday night parties. He delighted in the fact so many girls came and were lined up outside the door.

 

Kate said she loved her kindergarten teacher who also taught her third grade class. She said he was so patient and sported a big Tom Selleck mustache. He also stopped some girls from making fun of her when her dress accidentally hiked up and revealed her underwear. He will always be her favorite teacher.

 

General Evaluator – Kate gave a positive review of the meeting and especially Lynne’s evaluation of Giri’s talk. She liked her positive remarks as well as her challenge for his improvement. She enjoyed Mara’s great table topic questions.

 

Our Members in Attendance – Lynne, Warren, Jim, Giri, Kate, Robert, and Jean

 

Our Guests in Attendance – Glenn and Vinod. They both intend to join our club. Woohoo!

 

Motion to Adjourn –  Jim Second – Robert

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

 

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 8.25.2020

 

Here’s How to Speak, Be Heard and Applauded – Join Toastmasters

Announcements:  1. Toastmasters International Educational Talks and Speech Contests Are Online.

2. Make sure you submit each Pathways Level you accomplish to get your well-deserved credit.

 

Our Meeting Toastmaster: Kate

 

Our President Pro-Tem: Nancy

 

Our Gate Team was:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Lucelly/Gabby - Reinforcement

Ah Counter – Jinxin

Timer – Jim

General Evaluator – Jean

 

Our 1^st Speaker – Giri’s Title - Ponder, Purpose, Prepare, Practice – 4 Pillars to Powerful Presentations told exactly what he was going to share. Giri delivered. His talk was filled with stories, suggestions, and picture words.

 

Our 2^nd Speaker – Giri conducted an effective discussion. He asked members to share how they prepared for their presentations. Many helpful ideas were discussed.

 

Our 1st Evaluator – Robert complimented Giri on using alliteration in his title the reticular activating system in his talk.  He suggested Giri make a “bumper sticker review” at the end.

 

Our 2^nd Evaluator – Robert’s comments were included in his overall evaluation.

 

Our Table Topics Master –1. Nancy asked Lynne what subject she’d enjoy as an expert. Lynne would like to be a clown because she could pull tricks on people without them knowing her identity.

2. Nancy asked Glenn what career change he’d like. Glenn, being a graphic designer, is now learning to be a writer.

2. Nancy asked Warren if he’d like to go into outer space. Warren told us, even though he fears heights, he’d risk it because he’d get a new perspective on how small we are and how vast the world is.

 

General Evaluator – Jean evaluated the meeting as a whole and found, it to be fun, interesting, and educational.

 

Our Members in Attendance –Lynne, Nancy, Jim, Kate, Jinxin, Warren, Robert, Lucelly, Giri, Jean

 

Our Guests in Attendance – Glenn, Gabby

 

Motion to Adjourn - Jim     Second - Kate

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jean Tracy, DTM

 

 

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 8-18-2020

  

“How to Speak to Groups and Love It – Join Toastmasters”  JT

Each Tuesday we meet at twelve noon. Please join us on Zoom!

 Our Meeting Toastmaster: Jean - her theme was Sign of Leo

 

Our President: Barb welcomed our guest, Ben.

 

Our Gate Team was:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Barb – her word for us to use was usurp.

 

Ah Counter – Barb also filled this role.

 

Timer – Kate, who kept us on task. None of us went overtime or undertime.

 

General Evaluator – Lynne, who highlighted our timeliness, performance of roles, and commented on the evaluators.

 

Our 1^st Speaker – Lucelly delivered a speech from the Planning Innovation Pathway, Entitled, “The Differences Between Authority, Mentorship, Leadership and Lucelly’s Style.” 

 

Our 2^nd Speaker – Jean stepped outside Pathways and delivered a “how-to” talk, “How to Craft Super Titles and Get Noticed.” She engaged the audience in generating titles.

 

Our1st Evaluator – Giri called our Lucelly’s liveliness as one of her strongest speaking assets and made suggestions for enhancing her future talks.

 

Our 2^nd Evaluator – Nancy highlighted Jean’s focus on the importance and power of titles while adding several suggestions for improving her presentation.

 

Our Table Topics Master – Warren stole the show by calling out members (Giri, Robert, and Mara) to describe the personalities resident within keys on the computer keyboard.

 

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

 

Our Returning Guest in Attendance – Ben

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jim Tracy, DTM – Standing in for Jean

 

Public Speaking Northwest Minutes 8.11.2020

 

 

“Toastmasters makes sense so don’t be tense. Come speak and lead with confidence.“ JT

 Each Tuesday we meet at twelve noon. Please join us on Zoom!

 Announcements:  Lucelly was inducted into our club again. Jean will be her mentor.

 

Our Meeting Toastmaster: Nancy - her theme was Texas -Nancy shared many interesting facts about Texas. Many facts made us laugh.

 

Our President: Barb welcomed our guest, Ben.

 

Our Gate Team was:

 

Grammarian and Word of the Day – Lynn – her word for us to use – ‘inconceivable.’

Ah Counter – Lynn who helped us by counting our ah’s and ums. We’ll try to avoid them.

Timer – Barb, who kept us on track. None of us went overtime or undertime.

General Evaluator – Mara, whose meeting evaluation was very encouraging.

 

Our 1^st Speaker – Robert gave his Ice breaker and shared  funny stories about an algebra student of his and a nurse who passed her math exam to become an RN. This was one of Robert’s great talks.

 

Our 2^nd Speaker – Giri told 4 fascinating stories to help us learn “Flow.’ His motivating points included 1. Acting and 2. Acting at the right time. He show how doing so stopped ‘Decision Fatigue.’

 

Our1st Evaluator – Lucelly gave a positive evaluation which demonstrated the fine points in Robert’s talk.

 

Our 2^nd Evaluator – Jean also gave Giri a positive evaluation adding 2 points for challenging himself.

 

Our Table Topics Master – Kate gave a fun ‘on the spot’ question to Warren who wanted to live in the suburbs with enough land for planting a crop. Hana chose to live near beaches because they remind her of her home in Viet Nam. Ben’s favorite sport is soccer, which he played in Scotland.

 

Our Members in Attendance – Barb, Nancy, Lynn, Mara, Robert, Giri, Kate, Lucelly, Jim, Warren, Hana, Jean

 

Our Guests in Attendance – Ben

 

Your Secretary,

 

Jean Tracy, DTM