Neil Pettigrew opened the meeting then handed over to our President, Paul Andreas.
Paul reported back on the advanced club, Excalibur’s, open evening the previous week and encouraged members to visit Excalibur, so that they could learn some advanced speaking skills and then bring back to their home club.
Richard Green was the Toastmaster for the evening who then introduced his team of Simon Maggs, Timekeeper, Georgina Singleton, Grammarian and Margot Glover, Ah Counter. Jenny Taggart then warmed us up and Alain Culos gave us a Hot Tip, which was to remember to shake hands when transferring the stage to someone else.
The first speech was given by Luke Dzierzek, a new member, giving his Icebreaker speech. Luke told us a very interesting and entertaining story about his love of music and how his hobby had become his career.
This was followed by an entertaining speech about the Moon Landings by Dave Henson.
The final speech was an educational speech from the “Successful Club Series” titled “Evaluate to Motivate” by Paul Andreas. Paul gave a presentation about how to create excellent evaluations, using the CRC sandwich method and then use them to motivate, inspire and encourage other members.
This was followed by the break and the opportunity to eat some of the delicious biscuits that Neil Pettigrew, our SAA, had provided.
In the second part of the meeting we were entertained by some very interesting Table Topics, dreamed up by our TT Master, Karen Mefflin.
And the Best Speaker Award went to Dave Henson and the best Table Topic Award went to Alex Clark who had given a very entertaining speech about, “What Makes You Angry?”
Congratulations were given to Susan Rayner and Alex Clark for achieving their Competent Communicator Awards
After the meeting several members retired to the Anglesey Arms, where there was a very lively discussion about moon landings, music and evaluations – amongst other things.
At the end of the meeting several members asked Paul Andreas to email them the slides and script that Paul used in his speech about “Great Evaluations”. If you would like a copy then please email Paul at ToastmasterPaul@yahoo.co.uk