Meeting Report for Wednesday 29th April, 2020

We held an extra meeting this month - because there were five Wednesdays - and took advantage with an entertaining and high quality speechathon, in which six members delivered a wide variety of speeches; six others evaluated them. There were twenty-two attendees for this Zoom meeting.

Screenshot of a Toastmasters Zoom meeting

Brian was Timekeeper and Flemming, Toastmaster. Zoom Master was Marcin.
The speeches were:
Melanie ~ "Fat Away" Failure. Public Relations #4 - Speaking Under Fire (6:00-8:00 mins)
Eugene ~ "Turning Points" Leadership Development # 1-1 - Icebreaker (4:00-6:00 mins)
Debbie ~ "The Waiting Game" Dynamic Leadership #1-2 - Evaluation and Feedback - 1 (5:00-7:00 mins)
Gosia ~ "Been there, Done it, Got the T-shirt!" Presentation Mastery #101 - Icebreaker (4:00-6:00 mins)
Julie ~ "Against all Odds" Engaging Humour #1-1 - Icebreaker (4:00-6:00 mins)
Alice ~ "Story" Innovative Planning #1-4 - researching and Presenting (5:00-7:00 mins)
The speeches were evaluated by Rembrandt, Ian, Sarah, Sonia, Ilaria, Simon.
We then held the Open Feedback session - chaired by David, in which audience members are invited to add an extra two minutes of commendations and one minute of recommendations per speech.
It was then time for Nick, our President, to award the prizes which were as follows:
Best Speaker: Gosia
Best Evaluator: Ilaria

Our next Zoom meeting will be on 13th May, 2020. Guest are very welcome! Please visit our club EasySpeak page if you'd like to attend as a guest.

In other news:
Many congratulations to Excalibur members Latifa, who gained a superb second place in the District International Speech Competition, and also to Cat, who came an excellent third in the Speech Evaluation Contest. The club is proud of you!

And last, but not least - a huge congratulations to Excalibur's Sonia, who was MC for the conference. Nothing fazed her as she handled everything thrown her way with great professionalism. We are all in awe!