"Entertaining", "exhilarating", "educational", were just a few of
the adjectives our 9 guests used to describe their experience as we
wrapped up our bi-monthly Toastmasters meeting only 6 minutes overtime
—in spite of technical difficulties’ slowing down our start up! Rose
Chong’s general evaluation of the quality of the meeting was also
generally very positive, although she exhorted us to improve our
table-topics speeches. We were reminded of the trainings she gave us
previously (which were excellent, by the way) about improvising
quickly a 3-point impromptu speech using any one of several
easy-to-use templates: e.g., first-second-third — good-not so
good-bad — good-better-best —past-present-future — with the points
sandwiched between an opening that’s as rousing as possible and a
conclusion that reminds us of where the journey began and summarizes
where we were taken.
Our 4 speakers' performances can best be seen in the light of their
evaluators’ effective, off-the-cuff appraisals:
In 3 minutes, Jeff Singer, with his skill of naturally poised
encouragement, executed an effective evaluation of Christian Cokson's
9th speech. Christian did "Persuade with Power" to vote in the
European parliament elections, using logic and emotion, effective
pauses and deep conviction.
"Phil's ability to treat the delicate subject of homophobia with both
dignity and humor was excellent", noted his evaluator, Tulia Lopes,
"while revealing half-way through his speech the link between being
bald and being gay". It was an excellent speech in every way,
touching and funny and inspiring all at once.
Florian Mueck, executing an impeccable 3-minute evaluation structure
of Dimitri Uralov's 6th speech, emphasized the beauty and the
effectiveness of telling a good story well, and just how well Dimitri
had told his story about one hell of a Roman holiday: ...¡la hostia
que ocurríó en Ostia! Congratulations, Dimitri, on taking this big
step forward in speech performance!
Arthur Waters performed his first evaluation by tackling Henrick
Sprengel 's "Working for Love." Henrick presented his project
enthusiastically, giving us a great deal of information, and can
improve by making his transitions clearer and simplifying his visual
aids. Fine-tuning our speaking abilities really begins with our
second speech, and we can all look forward to Henrick's rapid growth
as a Toastmaster.
A special shout-out goes to our Table-Topics host, Angela Dunbar,
whose purse became a bag of tricks that could give anyone the
Christmas Blues (the Toastmaster’s theme of the evening). There was
a book of Catalan Christmas Carols to be sung, a weird looking Santa
as a present for the boss, and a Father Christmas mask that was worse
than anything that’s ever shown up on Halloween! Not only Govind,
Irene Escolar, and Jose Cruset rose to the challenge, but even one of
our guests, Jordi, stepped up to round out our table of topics.
Tuesday, December 7th truly was one more "entertaining",
"exhilarating", and " educational" Toastmasters evening. Carolhttp://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com
the adjectives our 9 guests used to describe their experience as we
wrapped up our bi-monthly Toastmasters meeting only 6 minutes overtime
—in spite of technical difficulties’ slowing down our start up! Rose
Chong’s general evaluation of the quality of the meeting was also
generally very positive, although she exhorted us to improve our
table-topics speeches. We were reminded of the trainings she gave us
previously (which were excellent, by the way) about improvising
quickly a 3-point impromptu speech using any one of several
easy-to-use templates: e.g., first-second-third — good-not so
good-bad — good-better-best —past-present-future — with the points
sandwiched between an opening that’s as rousing as possible and a
conclusion that reminds us of where the journey began and summarizes
where we were taken.
Our 4 speakers' performances can best be seen in the light of their
evaluators’ effective, off-the-cuff appraisals:
In 3 minutes, Jeff Singer, with his skill of naturally poised
encouragement, executed an effective evaluation of Christian Cokson's
9th speech. Christian did "Persuade with Power" to vote in the
European parliament elections, using logic and emotion, effective
pauses and deep conviction.
"Phil's ability to treat the delicate subject of homophobia with both
dignity and humor was excellent", noted his evaluator, Tulia Lopes,
"while revealing half-way through his speech the link between being
bald and being gay". It was an excellent speech in every way,
touching and funny and inspiring all at once.
Florian Mueck, executing an impeccable 3-minute evaluation structure
of Dimitri Uralov's 6th speech, emphasized the beauty and the
effectiveness of telling a good story well, and just how well Dimitri
had told his story about one hell of a Roman holiday: ...¡la hostia
que ocurríó en Ostia! Congratulations, Dimitri, on taking this big
step forward in speech performance!
Arthur Waters performed his first evaluation by tackling Henrick
Sprengel 's "Working for Love." Henrick presented his project
enthusiastically, giving us a great deal of information, and can
improve by making his transitions clearer and simplifying his visual
aids. Fine-tuning our speaking abilities really begins with our
second speech, and we can all look forward to Henrick's rapid growth
as a Toastmaster.
A special shout-out goes to our Table-Topics host, Angela Dunbar,
whose purse became a bag of tricks that could give anyone the
Christmas Blues (the Toastmaster’s theme of the evening). There was
a book of Catalan Christmas Carols to be sung, a weird looking Santa
as a present for the boss, and a Father Christmas mask that was worse
than anything that’s ever shown up on Halloween! Not only Govind,
Irene Escolar, and Jose Cruset rose to the challenge, but even one of
our guests, Jordi, stepped up to round out our table of topics.
Tuesday, December 7th truly was one more "entertaining",
"exhilarating", and " educational" Toastmasters evening. Carolhttp://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com
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