Unity, Leadership, and Summer Fun

Jeanne Resen was our Toastmaster of the day, and she did a great job using the theme of Unity. She helped institute some new procedural changes to our meetings which revolved around making the meetings more efficient, including shortening the Eyes and Ears team introductions and the Timer report, and allowing more time for things like Table Topics. The Word of the Day was Abundance.

After a joke from Hoyt, Nathan started us off with a timely speech on Leadership to help ring in the new year of our new club officers. He spoke about how leadership shouldn't be something we seek out but should be a challenge we embrace with open arms when the opportunity presents itself to us. 

Don Groff gave an impromptu second speech to fill in and reminded us all of the importance of always having a speech in our back pocket. He spoke on summer jobs and the evolution and significance of them, sharing several examples of some of his past work experiences.

Brad's Table Topic theme was Summer Fun, so we enjoyed hearing several of us, including two of our newest members Amy Sahf and Michael Thompson, speak off the cuff about some of their favorite summer experiences and what they like to do this time of year.



Toastmaster of the Day Jeanne Resen introduced a few procedural changes to help make our meetings more efficient


 Don Groff enlightened us on some of his job experience and the significance of summer work.

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  1. ToastmastersJuly 12, 2018 at 10:48 AM

    I am glad to read the blog to catch up on what I missed. I didn't see mention of the evaluator for Nathan, but all members are invited to give evaluation of a grow and a glow or more. Speakers benefit from such feedback, especially when more than just a couple of members respond. This is the type of note-passing that is a real boost to education.

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  2. Judy GroffJuly 13, 2018 at 8:37 AM

    Well done Nathan! We'll all try to incorporate changes to improve the meetings.

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