Cromwell Community Toastmasters
Club 5908 ~ District 53
Tues, May 5 2015
Attendees: Don Ostertag, Charlie Hubert, Bill Sullivan,
Jen Bourne, Crystal Storo, Phil Mason, Cheryl Mason, Sheetal Patel, Hollie
Rose, Andrew Watt, Jeevan Kale
Guests: Maria , Claude, Aiday
Business
Meeting
President
Phil Mason presented the Cromwell Community Toastmaster certificate for the
club’s 30 year anniversary. VPE Bill
Sullivan reviewed our progress toward our presidents distinguished status for
Cromwell. Area Governor Crystal Storo,
in charge in nomination committee for next officer group effective July 1st. Voting process within next two meetings,
Nominees Hollie Rose - President, VPE – Andrew Watt, VPM Don Ostertag, VPPR – Jen Bourne,
Treasurer – Brian Fleming, Secretory and
Sgt at Arms nominees yet to accept nomination.
Second meeting in June small campaign speech and then voting.
District
Conference – this weekend Sat in Albany, NY.
Info on District 53 toastmasters website.
Toastmaster Hollie Rose
Invocation Charlie Hubert
Og Mandino: The Greatest Salesman
in the World. “I will form good habits
and make them my slave.”
Table Topics Andrew Watt
Good Stuff in Toastmasters
Magazine
· [Bill] Common Speaker Pitfalls Given this a lot of
thought. Greatest pitfall is thinking
that you don’t have to prepare for a speech.
Best speakers look like they were able to do it without practice, only
because they did so much preparation.
· [Crystal] Setting and reaching goals When I first joined TM I came at speech-a-thon time; the
speakers and then the feedback really drew me in. There’s no timeline to say, I
have to get this done in a certain amount of time. You can set a goal and get it done in your
own time.
· [Don] Leading with Love When I was 50 years
old I stumbled on the “consonant blend” which opened up a big door for me in
ease of reading. Doing reading manual
after finishing my CC.
· [Sheetal] Telling Tales at the Office There is
nothing you can do better at work than to be honest and there are many ways of
telling the truth. The direct way is
the best way.
· [Maria] It’s about time, and how to manage
it Life has been very busy, as a working
mom. Just forget about the list, just do
what you need to do. I hope to find time
(enough time) for everybody in my life.
One step at a time.
·
[Cheryl]
TED talk The best Ted Talk I ever saw was described and delivered though the movement of dancers on the
stage. It was about physics and
science. It changed my whole vision of
how to present at topic.
·
[Claude] Password
security It
doesn’t matter how careful you are. If
you have a digital internet its possible for your password to be stolen. I had this experience and found out when I
went to file my taxes. Choose a
password root and make the password unique to the website in question
·
[Aiday]
Speaking on Camera I will be looking at the
person who is behind the camera. The
camera is a person that you are talking to.
Speaker # 1: Crystal Storo 9:03
Manual/Project: Specialty Speeches, Impromptu Speaking
Title:
Off the Cuff: Officer Roles
I have served in all of these roles; Secretary
– was only member for 4 months. I’m a
procrastinator and usually meeting minutes would not go out until the day
before the next meeting. So I learned
to work on procrastination. Advice: Participate as an officer in ways other
than meeting minutes – you are part of the leadership team and can give your
input. Second role was VPE – I felt I
hadn’t been a member long enough. But
this was one of my favorite roles and the one that made me flourish. Their main responsibility is to motivate the
club members to achieve their goals. I
felt it was rewarding to see people grow throughout the year. Advice: Connect with each person
individually rather than in aggregate as a club. Third role was President – Felt very
enthusiastic and want to help lead the team.
One of the things I work on is to try to build the team and get people
to work together. This was great for my
professional role at work. Advice: get your team together thinking about not
just their role but how they can all help
each other. Currently Area Governor
– work with the leadership teams of all the area clubs and get area clubs
together and cross pollinate. Next
will be running for Division Governor – gets area governors together and works
to improve the district as a whole.
Speaker # 2: Jen Bourne 5:23
Manual/Project: Competent Communicator #9
Title: What’s your story?
Jen asked the club to stand up and
physically express and feel certain way – think about their story when they
felt a certain way. She asked fellow
members to move beyond initial excitement of motivation to working towards
their goals in their own way.
Evaluator # 1: Phil Mason
Crystal’s off the cuff speech sounded like a
prepared speech. Detailed about
explaining roles and what people could get out of that role. You could have moved around the room and
connected with different people. Liked
how you told how you were rewarded by each role. You created a really strong structure, which
is a challenge in an impromptu speech.
Evaluator # 2: Charlie Hubert
What better way to persuade than with the title,
What’s your story? Persuading people
works well when you connect with people’s personal interest. I can recommend “not to use any notes”. I think she persuaded us that we need to
tell our own story and this is the venue to do it in.
Functionary Reports:
WordMaster: Andrew Vernal –adj spring-like, springtime Hollie 1, Andrew 1, Jen 1, TT speaker 1
Timer: Sheetal - gave times see above
Grammarian: Cheryl –
Bill: preparation is the key to give
Crystal: “you do good when you are setting goals” Jen “How do you succeed in the way you want to
succeed it your story”
Ah Counter: Don - Only a few each for: Crystal, Maria, Phil that was basically it.
General
Evaluator: Bill Sullivan -
Transition
to Table topics, this is a place where we make mistakes and a learning
opportunity. That’s why we practice,
practice, practice. It would have been
fine to just go with it and see how it goes for the group. Part of the beauty
of toastmasters is the place to make the mistakes. Andrew in table topics, I thought I had him
and I didn’t think he’d called on guests but then he got them. Evaluators:
I like to hear how the speech made you feel. Give the evaluation from your point of
view. Meeting could have started more on
time. The person who didn’t speak today
was Jeevan. Jeevan: Crystal’s and Jen’s
speeches were good the meeting was good.
To the guests, it is really good that you spoke at your very first
meeting. Next time you’re in a staff
meeting, notice how many people speak. Not
everyone is speaking but everyone has something to say - ask a chronically quiet person what they
think.
In closing:
This weekend, there is the district conference. International conference in August – go
online and be inspired by some of the international speech contest winners on
you tube.
Next meeting: May 19, 2014
Respectfully
submitted by
Jennifer Bourne, Secretary
[Posted by Hollie Rose CC, CL}
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