Category: Toastmaster of the day

Most people come to Toastmasters concerned about having to speak in a impromptu manner. At Toastmasters there is the opportunity to practice this skill in the part of the meeting called […]

Our meeting theme today was ‘Celebrating Diversity’ and Pauline our Table Topics Master today and came armed with a variety of subjects, questions and phrases about how we might celebrating […]

Thomas takes the Toastmaster of the day award for his speech Welcome to Parkrun. Thomas was completing speech Number 3 from Toastmaster’s Competent Communicator manual. Its objective  is to ‘get to the […]

Ruth is awarded Toastmaster of the day for giving a well considered and comprehensive evaluation. Ruth used the Toastmasters CRC (commend, recommend, commend) process to structure her valuable feedback. She began by commending the speaker for […]

We have Pauline to thank for using all her Toastmasters Leadership skills and making our Christmas meeting fun, interactive with a take away message. Pauline chose a Christmas play set […]

This week our Toastmaster of the day is Ruth for her evaluation of the second speaker. Ruth teaches us to evaluate by knowing the objectives for the speech at the beginning and restricting the […]

Thanks Steve there was not a member present that really understood the history, complexity and reason for the forms or kata in Karate. We all now know that they are a form […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“Grammarian is a Toastmasters role that bothers some members, as they might feel that they need an impeccable grasp of English grammar. However, they need not fear if they have […]

Congratulations to Thomas for winning the Toastmaster of the day award for his evaluation of Marian’s speech this week. Evaluations are in many ways more tricky than speeches because of […]

Have you been asked to speak at a special occasion? Andrew gave us an after dinner speech today in preparation for a special occasion when it will be given to family and friends. […]

Congratulations to Chris for his creativity in running our business session so that it was not the usual bore. What happened, Chris picked up the Super Hero Theme from An’s […]

Wow, Grace opened our eyes about the Reserve Bank with her 4th speech entitled “bonsai and a pine”. We thought that the Reserve Bank was only interested in controlling Mortgage […]