What's Up?

“What’s Up?”, the theme for our first meeting of the 2018 year, featured several new possibilities for doing things at our meetings.  The room was set in a semi circle arrangement partly because the tables were still standing in the room and partly because we have had a  recommendation to change the room seating to make it more intimate. Did it work?

Ivan Beggs presented a memorable speech on “Impromptu Speaking” from the Better Speaker Series. As a DTM, Ivan is using this speech to complete a second Advanced Communicator Silver Award. He said he chose impromptu speaking because we use this skill daily. He gave us strategies for approaching an impromptu opportunity and a simple process to be effective win delivering the message. Most important he said is to be brief, confident, and sincere. In her evaluation, Jackie Branscum said she couldn’t find any meaningful “grows” to improve Ivan’s speech. The audience had a couple of minor thoughts.

Don Groff the second speaker, spoke on the topic of “More is Less” using boutique, small homes as his example. His goal was to be persuasive in this final speech from his Competent Communicator Award manual. In the evaluation, Ron Climer said he nailed the close or call to action.  

Hoyt Griffith’s word of the day, PERSPICUOUS, was used by everyone, at least once. We didn’t always pronounce it correctly, but we were enthusiastic about using it.  Check out our website at fourseasonstoastmasters.com

This shows the range of our members, from Ivan Beggs, our most accomplished Toastmaster with a DTM and completion of his second Silver Communicator, to Melinda Lowrance, our newest member who is to start her ice-breaker on the new Pathways.

VP of Ed Sally had a clipboard and TM Stan had a board out to ensure sign-up of roles for the next meeting on January 10.



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  1. ToastmastersJanuary 3, 2018 at 4:16 PM

    We are hoping members will sign up for roles online. It's a hassle otherwise. We cannot publish the link or nonmembers could create chaos with the editing. But send Sally or Stan your request by email, and the link will gladly be sent to you

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