Meeting #878 Theme “Slogans
Toastmaster Caleb Vercoe
Caleb proved to us all that we must very good listeners as most of us at todays meeting knew all the marketing slogans he tested us on. So back to the TV ads for me!
Dion Ebrahim our Grammarian for the meeting
Dion started his role by telling us he would be assessing our actual grammar through the meeting and to report who was using slogans. A bit of a challenge in this case as even though we were great at the test of Slogans, not so good at actually using them. Our grammar was in question as well but over all a good report and a very thorough one at that. Well done Dion.
Speeches
Alan Calder
Turn back time
Alan talked about accidents and injuries while doing recreational sports. while Alan has had injuries he focused on his wifes repeated injuries including a broken leg. Moral of the story try and learn from our mistakes and try to avoid the same things and as we get older it becomes more difficult to recover. Stay Smart, Alert, and prepared.
Brent Ruru
Dream Design Do
Brent told us to have a plan or you will find yourself fiting into somebody elses plan. Brent gave us some ideas to inspire Dreaming, writing lists of what matters most, what makes you happy, what you do everyday. Put together experience boards of photos to remind you of whats been achieved.
When making big plans try the analogy of when painting a big fence that looks overwhelming just look at painting a few palings at a time. Then brent told us a story about their travels biking across Canada even though Bears live there and love bikes too. Follow your dreams.
David Clarkson
Over the horizon
We were treated to a great story with photos of his recent trip through Europe This was very inspirational in it self. We all felt like we were there with David and his wife. Amazing pictures David.
Table topics
Helen McLeod did not disappoint with the fun part of the meeting. Helen used Table conversation cards. Each card has a question to be read out and discussed, although catching a couple out. All the table topics speeches were well put together as mini speeches and entertained.
We had some great evaluations this week, although some common themes came through. Simple things. Remember to speak up, look around and keep to time above all enjoy!
Time for a ………?? “world famous in New Zealand”
Meeting #849 Friday November 4th
Meeting #849 Friday November 4th
Speech Marathon
Theme – Power of Speeches
Toastmaster Alana Bogart
Sergeant of Arms Charlene Hails
Charlene Welcomed everyone on time, making us feel happy to be up at this early hour. We were then treated to Alana’s very organised and well explained meeting for our speech marathon with six speakers all ready to go. Alana introducing every speaker and evaluator through the meeting.
Speaker 1 Personal Story By Issac Tanner-Dempsey
Issac treated us to an interesting story about his friends, finishing with some good advice for us. ‘When giving advice Ask questions, Listen then give advice’.
Speaker 2 Photos by Helen McLeod
Helen had a wonderful speech all about the best way to take photos Teaching us about – three parallels, Area, and the Triangles using objects, in this case people. We were treated to some of Helens own photos as props. Helen even used audience involvement to ensure we had learnt the main points. (Hoping I have it right as I am writing from memory!)
Speaker 3 Mentoring, Educational by Steven Mydlowski
Steve explained the ins and outs of becoming a mentor telling us if we have completed the competent Communicators Manual or close to it you can be put down on the list as a mentor. New members are assigned a mentor and our VP of membership Grant Beatie will assist with anyone wanting to become a mentor.
Speaker 4 Elite6 By Danny de Hek
Danny asked an audience member (Sandra) to come up and ‘mock’ a coffee meeting and Danny asked questions to explain his Networking business and how it works and why it works for professionals and people trying to get into the workforce.Danny explained synergies created between the members of elite 6 networking meetings. Thoroughly enjoyed that Toastie award making speech.
Speaker 5 Ancient Liturgy By David Cooper
David explained literature written by people whom had a completely different way of life to modern day. The danger in reading these words written by ancient writers is that the stories may seem barbaric but the importance is, this was the way of life thousands of years ago. David had some very interesting examples, but his main point was that to find the proper meaning of the writer you need to look beyond the differences in culture and time in order to see the relevance of books like the Bible.
Speaker 6 On your Bike by Alan Calder
A brought in two of his Mountain Bikes as props. Alan explained pretty much everything you can know about the bikes, amazing whats on a Mountain Bike nowadays I was fascinated by the seat dropper which drops the seat at the touch of a button, used for going down hill to give you more balance also goes up without dismounting from the bike. Alan explained the benefits of cycling and suggests cycling with friend on the port hills. My days with bikes were very simple, BMX and no breaks or helmets, using sneakers on the back wheel to stop. (My Mother loved that!)
Evaluations
We had some very good Evaluators today with some good tips, commendations and importantly some recommendations. Particularly being reminded to follow our manuals because they do give you all the instructions on how to present a great speech. Over all a very good speech marathon and well done to all who had a role including the audience of Boaters members and guests.
Meeting # 838 – The Olympics
Toastmaster Dan McKirdy
Dan struck it lucky today he had two roles Sergeant of Arms and of course Toastmaster. Dan brought us through the meeting with some great lines to mix it up between speakers keeping us on time and interested.
Steven Mydlowski our Grammarian for the meeting
Steve had some Grammar to consider
specifically the use of Bought and Brought, Buy and Bring
Steve suggested he would be watching and reporting back at the end to bring us the bad news!! I thought he might have brought the bad news.
Speeches
Caleb Vercoe with
We are all old enough
We are the Perfect age for lawn bowls and people are never too young to start. Caleb started at 14, he explained some of the ins and outs of Lawn Bowls. Some really good tips, “If you do the same thing over and over you should get the same result” Caleb even bought an actual lawn bowl, Caleb told us all about it, and whats in the bowlers Big bag (kit) Caleb explained some of the items, interestingly they use a lot of Special grip cream so they don’t drop the Ball (Bowl).
Next we heard from our resident Pain Dr,
Dr John McVicar
With , Are intra-Articular injections of Corticosteroid effective for Sacroiliac joint pain.
John explained what a steroid is and used some pretty big words but still we were able to understand what he was talking about.
Some big Names, sacrum, Ilium, and Sacroiliac Joint and what they do and the pain associated when things dont work. John explained We can improve the pain by injecting local Anaesthetic into the joint.
He explained to diagnose he injects Anaesthetic and dye with a 9 cm needle!. followed by a number of steps and questions.John had a number of statistics around use of the Steroid injections. Over all very interesting speech.
“Not really looking forward to any injuries so I suggest we all take care!”
Steve Thomas
Knowledge driven project development
Steve started during the week asking us to complete a survey Online which gave him back ground information on his audience and he could tailor the speech.
Steve explained he built a play house, and it was not quite right, it was on a lean and he would have done better if he had read the instructions.
Steve told us,” we have all experienced product development at home”, it could be a creating simple meal or putting together kit set product. Steve went through some steps for designing a product and determine the needs of the customer.
Steve used a power point helping us comprehend what he had to say and help him connect with the audience.
Helen McLeod Table Topics
Helen brought us a great Table Topics session on ‘Winners’ which had some very good easy questions.
Rachel Walton, gave us a great mini speech on the most Medals won at the Olympics.
Kevin Cusack got up to tell us about more events for the elderly at the olympics, he said he needs a Gold medal for being the oldest person in the club.
Terrell told us if we should we go back to doing the olympics in the nude as they did at the first olympics. Terrell said its not about the bodies its about winning.
Isaac, Did we show the world, with rugby Sevens! Isaac told us he was impressed with The All Blacks winning attitude.
Brent Chatterton- Cost of the olympics should it be shared among more then 4 countries or keep it in one area.
Brent drew a parallel with our sporting venues that by investing in infrastructure likes of Dunedin it means we can have great facilities for generations to come.
We had some very good Evaluators today with some good tips, commendations and importantly some recommendations.
Steve Mydlowski told us we had very good gramma throughout, watch the fillers in the speeches and evaluations.
Vivien Was very please to be the General Evaluator as no body evaluates her! Vivien had some very good feedback for the introduces and evaluators. Vivien had listened well and used good Humour throughout.
The toastie award went to John McVicar for a informative and interesting speech.
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