Author: John Stapleton

Congratulations our Toastmaster of the day award goes to our Chairperson Thomas. Thomas demonstrated his excellent organizational skills in getting todays meeting arranged, roles filled and the agenda out well before time. Thomas selected a theme for the meeting of ‘Technology’. He opened the meeting with a short personal story about his in home music system. Why is this interesting you […]

Have you got a plan for your life’s next 5 or 10 years or beyond? Do you have 5 goals written down that you are working towards? If your answer is no stop here and write them down right now. Today our Toastmaster of the day Ruth gave everyone time to do this. Ruth then proceeded to tell us of […]

Am I repeating myself? No its true. Chloe our newest member takes the award for  Toastmaster of the day for the second week in a row. Will she make next week a triple header? Chloe was Introducer and Evaluator for Nicola today. Introducing a speaker is explaining to the audience who the speaker is, where they are coming from, what […]

Chloe our newest member gave her Icebreaker (1st speech) today. Chloe was in the zone with the new beginnings theme of our meeting ‘Cherry Blossom’. We were all fully engaged and inspired as her story unfolded on to how she has persisted through adversity to become the business woman she now is. Chloe works in a role a role she wanted and envisaged for […]

The mark of a true Toastmaster is their flexibility and desire to step up when needed. Our Toastmaster of the day Grace did this by tackling two roles, Table Topics Master and Speaker.  Grace guided our Table Topics participants through an interesting range of scenarios  based on the current local body elections. Members got to try their political persuasion to […]

If you hate the way meetings drag on, and on, and on then you should join Toastmasters. As Toastmasters teaches you how to control and run meetings to time with a tight agenda and a timekeeper. The role of timekeeper is threefold: First, is to indicate the progression of time to speakers via coloured  lights. […]

What are your thoughts of Spring?  Our Table Topics Master An had plenty.  An challenged her fellow Toastmasters to speak for two minutes on their experience’s of spring ranging over their favourite observations, activities, local customs, and even what would it be like if spring was cancelled!  An demonstrated her Toastmaster’s planning and leadership skills, […]

Did you know or do you remember when the Twin Towers cascaded to the ground so did a nearby building known as building 7. Chris enthralled us all with his theory that there is more to the collapse of building 7 than just its association and proximity to the Twin Towers. This is something for us all […]