We had a small logistic problem before starting our meeting on Tuesday 18th, we had no chairs!
Can you imagine the situation? Having a full room, many guests, and no chairs!
Well, but we are Toastmasters. We don't sit, we act!
And our SAA Phil and his team put their strong arms together and in no time, everything was sorted, and we could sit and enjoy the meeting.
As a President, I had decided to change a little the format of the meeting, and apart of the usual welcoming and guest introduction I gave the Club Business information beforehand. Which I believe it is important to reinforce here, please guys put in your Agenda:
Club Contest is on March 15th and we need Contestants!!!!
Be brave guys and challenge yourselves. Go for it!
Talk to our VPE, Rose Chong, to get the details about it.
After that, we had our Table Topics section, where Daniel Juling, challenged his "victims" with the Wikileaks subject.
Should the creators of Wikileaks be treated and chased as terrorists? Is Wikileaks a good or a bad thing?
Should we not live with more transparency? Well, there is still a lot to talk about the subject.
Great! Amazing speeches!
Ricardo Tellez inspired us and gave us more hope to our own future.
He informed us that it is scientifically proved that we can change our brain patterns!
You can replace bad habits by good ones!
Now you know! We have the power to change our inner world!
Start planning guys! Take your New Year's resolution list and look at it very seriously.
It can happen! Depends on you!
2nd Speech - Dima gave his speech about the Toastmaster World seen as from a Company perspective.
He showed us much more than what we already know.
And, I'm sure many of us have asked ourselves one day, how can a non-profitable organisation work so well, and with volunteers!!!!???
He also showed us their "numbers/profits" considered as "rainy days savings"!
WOW! There is so much to learn about the Toastmasters world.
I would love to own a company who works so well, where people is committed, happy, and is profitable!!!! Who wouldn't?
Thank you Dima! Another area to learn on Toastmasters.
3rd Speech - An AMAZING Icebreaker!
We couldn't believe it was Tobias Rodrigues first speech.
We were amazed how he told us about 3 very important times of his life using 3 examples of Sandcastles to illustrated them clearly.
Florian Mueck, his evaluator was very impressed and thanked him for becoming part of Prestigious Speakers team, saying that for sure he will contribute a lot to everyone's growth!
Well done Tobias!
4th Speech - Mireia Vives
Mireia is an artist, a painter. And she told us how all sort of arts have always been part of her life.
She compared the two great painters Picasso and Degas, and explained that despite their difference in style, they had something in common, which is something she says all sort of arts and artists have in common. Which is to ability to see beyond reality and express themselves through that.
It was very interesting. And she is definitely passionate about it.
I won't go through the evaluations, I will only say they were quite constructive, positive, motivational.
Many points were given to the speakers in order to improve for their next speech.
But we had a voting:
Best Table Topics Speaker - Peter Mckenzie
Best Speaker - Tobias Rodrigues
Best Evaluator - Florian Mueck
The meeting finished with the guests one word feedback on the meeting.
And among all, the ones I can remember are: "Amazing, Excellent, Entertaining, Fun, Enjoyable...." and more.
Well, I hope you could get a grip of it!
See you next Feb 1st.
Cheers
Tulia
"Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity. W. Bennis " http://blog.prestigiousspeakers.com
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