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- GGTM Dispatch vol. 7|| April 17th report
GGTM Dispatch vol. 7|| April 17th report
GGTM Dispatch vol. 7|| April 17th report
GGTM Team & Helen Fream
April 20, 2024
Greetings Fellow Toastmasters & Friends!
Big news! We're trying out a new venue, for a pilot period of 6 weeks, thanks to Mike Z. This past Wednesday we had our inaugural meeting in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Board Room. This space is much bigger than ELI and fits up to 50 people. As the club continues to grow (more on that shortly) we're excited to have this venue and be able to return to a weekly (yes, that's right!), meeting cadence.With our weekly cadence it means that members have twice as many opportunities to speak. Agendas are published, so sign up for roles and speeches for the coming weeks!
Officer Announcements
From Helen Fream, Club Secretary: Reminder that I'm looking for some volunteers to be featured in a 'Member Spotlight' for our Newsletter. If you'd be prepared to answer 3-4 questions about yourself/Toastmasters journey please email me: [email protected] or let me know in the next meeting!
From Scott Brown, Club President: The Toastmasters International Conference and Contests is on Saturday, May 4th. This is a hybrid event from 8:30am to 4:30pm. Read more info and register here.
Meeting Notes This week's meeting had a seasonal feel as we had a theme of 'Moving', an apt theme considering the new location for our meetings. Alex Wu was the Toastmaster for the evening and handled the new space well. |
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Prepared Speeches Helen gave an extended keynote style speech for her Pathways Level 5 project. She shared her passion for fashion, but not at the cost of the environment and garment factory workers. Helen's speech covered details of the fashion crisis, how fast fashion is impacting our world, and what we can all do to help. She has shared more resources at the end of this newsletter. (Best Prepared Speech)
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Table Topics Sheila was our TTM for this week's meeting. She'd had the help of her friend's 9 year old son, who had some big questions for us all! We had another tie this week two Lauren and a first time guest Lorris, for best Table Topic !
Lauren shared that she would build a commune style house with her friends and bake scones for breakfast. (Joint Best Table Topic Joint Winner)Lorris revealed that she is a KitKat aficiando and that she likes the wacky Japanese flavors. (Joint Best Table Topic Joint Winner)Tyler shared that hewould like to be both the smartest and most liked in a room. He is getting into stand-up comedy, so send some laughs his way! Monika gave us an insight into her journey with finding the meaning of love! |
Evaluations We had 3 great evaluations for 3 great speeches. This week we had evaluations from: Scott who evaluated Helen's speech and confirmed that it is almost key-note ready! He like that the beginning was grounded in her experience and made the story telling more impactful. Scott's recommendations for Helen were to add in some comic relief, bring in more inspired action and ground solutions in her own experience as well. Scott also suggested he was the least fashionable in the club! Mike Z who evaluated Adam's Ice Breaker and commended him on his first speech in this new space. He said that although Adam started a little stuff he broke the tension with humor and then relaxed into the speech. Adam had good posture, didn't fidget and built momentum towards the end of the speech (a perfect reflection of the speech title!). His suggestions for the next speech were to ditch the laptop and have bullet points notes. Prat who told Gene that he had excellent content and enjoyed the way he launched straight into his material. Prat suggested that Gene pass around the CDs so we had more of a visual element. For next time he challenged him to project his voice to the back of the room and add variation to pace and volume. (Best evaluation)
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Resources
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Guests! |
New Members! |
Next meeting... |