Author: John Stapleton

Well structured, thoughtful, clear, helpful, sensitive and culturally aware are all words that come to my mind in describing the evaluation given by Marion to a speech given by one of our members for whom English is their second language. Marion has learned and practiced the art of evaluation  and she can identify and demonstrate […]

Our Toastmaster of the day is Thomas. Calm cool and self assured Thomas spotted the technical problem emerging for our speakers presentation today and showed Toastmasters leadership by stepping in to fix it so the slide show worked. Most of us wouldn’t try this for fear of the exposure of getting it wrong. Congratulations Thomas […]

Congratulations to Tony Toastmaster of the day for filling the role of Table Topics Master at short notice. Table Topics is where you offer the opportunity for members and guests to speak impromptu. Tony demonstrated care and thought. He set the scene for each of his opportunity related topics before he selected a speaker. What […]

Congratulations to Toastmaster of the day Hana who gave her second speech from the competent communicator manual today about personal security and the strength of passwords. Hana involved us all straight off by asking questions as to which of two examples of password we thought would be the most secure? Surprise.  We got it wrong. […]

Congratulations to our Toastmaster of the Day, Marion. Marion, full of enthusiasm and energy joined the stage as one of the table topic speakers for the day. Table Topics is part of our weekly agenda where speakers are invited to deliver an impromptu speech for 1-2 minutes. This helps Toastmasters acquire new skills through thinking […]

Congratulations to our Toastmaster of the Day, Hazel. Hazel spoke on a topic relevant to everyone in the room, learning. Throughout Hazel’s speech she encouraged us to continue learning new skills, whether it was reading a new book, learning a new language or learning a new skill like trapeze. Hazel had the audience’s attention captive […]

Why do we come to Toastmasters? Usually because we have made one or two speeches or presentations and know we need help to overcome our fear and improve.  Other times someone at work sees us struggle with the skill and may recommend joining. Toastmaster of the day goes to Siobhan who got up and told us as a Table Topic how she found […]

Now they talk about and write about this type of presentation but rarely if ever do you get to witness it first hand. Today we did. Hazel gave us an educational presentation on Mentoring using very simple but highly effective presentations methods. Enthusiasm for the subject Hazel’s was infectious with eyes flashing and arms stretched out drawing us […]

Congratulations to all  6 of our club members who challenged each other for the best extemporaneous speaker of the day. Table Topics is a part of the Toastmasters program that allows speakers to speak on a topic for a maximum of 2 minutes and its designed to enable you to learn and gain the self confidence that comes with […]

We are being treated to an explosion of Ice Breaker speeches from our new members and Andrew C as one of these did his today. Keeping to the meeting theme of ‘Get Active’ Andrew treated us to his speech on how his Father has taken up riding a motorcycle with himself being roped in to make sure the old […]

We all have to start. Zena began her Toastmasters journey with us today giving her first speech called the Icebreaker. This is generally where you tell the meeting a bit about yourself. Zena warmed us all up in theme with our meeting ‘a winter wonder’ by building her message around how her name was selected for her. This was an […]

Thanks Ruth earning well deserved recognition as Toastmaster of the day for your display of organizational ability as Chairperson of this weeks meeting. Its always hard at this time of the year when business is peaking in its activity. It becomes difficult to assign meeting roles due to members work pressures and winters inevitable toll of ills […]

What makes a speaker interesting, grabs your attention and has you waiting for them to begin?  The answer is a well thought out introduction. Today Ruth as our meeting Chairperson completed a project from the Advanced Manual, Specialty Speeches. The project titled Introduce the Speaker. As a part of her meeting preparation  Ruth had pre approached all of the speakers on […]