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Friday, 11 March 2016

Novice Speech and Table Topics Contest


This night organised by Marilyn D (Bunya Club) was well supported by our club members. Annette W gained third place in the novice event, while Darryl  gained valuable experience against very experienced speakers in the table topics contest. Members from our club gave enthusiastic support to our speakers. Marilyn D is keen to have more inter club speaking events later in the year. 

Thanks to Leesa for the Photos & John T for the report.

We are proud of both our contest participants.

Novice Speech Place Getters

Rose, John T, Leesa, Annette W, Tami, Darryl, Annette T
Leesa, Rose, Peter, Annette T, Annette W.

Marilyn with Novice Speech participants

Table Topics Participants

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Meeting 960 "Cinema/Movies"

New Members Carmy & Christiane
Welcome to our new members Carmy and Christiane who were inducted last meeting.

Annette T was Toastmaster and kept the meaning flowing with snippets of information about movies.

Carmy proposed the toast. Darryl was Wordmaster and chose the word NUGATORY, meaning worthless, of no value or importance. Some members managed to use the word during the meeting.

Wordmaster Darryl
Round Robin Master Amanda asked us what our favourite "Guilty Pleasure" movie was.


Harry presented a speech on "High Performance Teams."  Jonathon has put up a movie of Harry's speech and  you can listen to it you scroll down.

Harry

Another informative presentation was Sharyn's "Fake it until You Can Make it."

Sharyn

 Jonathon 's speech project was from the Story Telling Manual and he told a touching story. "The Accident of Birth."
Jonathon

Speech evaluators were Annette W (her first evaluation,) Marlene and Jim.


Jim
Annette W

Table Topics Master Paul had movie related topics for Nick, Rosanne, Christiane, Amanda. John T, Annette T, Darryl & Marlene.

Nick
Paul


Christiane
Amanda

John T
Rosanne

Annette T
Darryl

The Table Topics were evaluated by Lisa and Rose.

Rose
Lisa

Supper time - Amanda, Lisa & Christiane
Supper was provided by Amanda.

Rosanne's raffle (wine and chocolates) was won by our Time Keeper, Dave.

John T evaluated the meeting, and presented the evening's awards to Annette T (Best Table Topic and Best Contribution,) Jonathon (Best Speech,) Annette W (Best Evaluator,) and Christiane (Personal Best.)

Winners - Annette T, Jonathon, Annette W, Christiane.

Next meeting will be on the 8th March with the theme, "International Women's Day." 

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

High Performance Teams

A speech from the advanced manual on "Speaking To Inform" about how high performance teams work together.

What is a high performance team, and where do they exist out there in the world?
Find out in the speech below ...

Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Chinese New Year - Meeting 959



Thanks to Rose for taking photos in my absence. I have been told it was a great meeting, with four of our guests deciding to join our club. The pictures can tell the story.

Trish - Toastmaster
Nick - Sergeant-at-Arms
Amanda - Timer
Jim proposed toast

Annette' W's 2nd speech

John T -Interpretive Reading
Liz - Evaluator
Sharyn - Evaluator

Tim
Harry

Jonathon

Paul - TT Evaluation

Rosanne

Marilyn & Mahia from Bunya


Rose -Word Master

Liz W & Trish

Marilyn

Darryl

Lisa - TT  evaluation

Dave Grammarian

Supper time - Thanks to Leanne
Steve Gen Evaluator

Annette - Personal Best
Marilyn - Raffle winner

Darryl - Lucky Red Envelope
Annette (Personal Best,) Liz W holding Table Topics trophy for Harry, Trish (Best Contribution,) Annette W, Best Speech,  Sharyn, (Best Evaluation)

Thursday, 11 February 2016

Be Prepared To Grab Your Opportunities Whenever They Appear

This speech was actually presented some time ago ...

Have you ever missed an opportunity in your life? Did you beat yourself up about it afterwards? Perhaps you avoid opportunities because of a fear of failure (public speaking for example)

Steven Bradbury, who won a gold medal in the speed skating at the winter Olympics, is a great example of someone who was prepared to take advantage of an opportunity when it “fell” into his lap. He was way back in the pack near the finish of the race, when all the skaters in front crashed.
He was only in the race in the first place because of his years of preparation, and when opportunity presented itself - he took full advantage.

To be able to do this, you need to be prepared.


Speech - Finding Pleasure Through Pain

This speech told the story of how the pain of cycling became an enjoyable hobby and explored the potential to be able to push through the pain to find pleasure on the other side.