Greater Davison Toastmasters Regular Toastmasters Meetings
Monday January 30, 2023
Club Mission: We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth.
President
Louella Jamerson
VP of Education
Debra Loader
VP of Membership
SHEILA JOHNSON
VP of Public Relations
Kimberly Eddy
Secretary
Lorie Lyons
Treasurer
Jennifer Turner
Sgt. at Arms
Gene Kopczyk
The President or Presiding Officer extends greetings to members and guests and shares the Mission Statement for our club and for Toastmasters. The President then leads the audience in a time of self-introduction and response to an ice-breaker question. A maximum of 30 seconds is allowed, per person.
The President or Presiding Officer introduces tonight’s Toastmaster and releases lectern to Toastmaster.
The Toastmaster of the day sets the meeting theme and tone while introducing the evening’s program. Our Toastmaster will present the Word of the Day and examples of that word in common usage, a quote and the educational focus for the evening.
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Theme: Find your tribe
WOD: Community Noun
a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
Ex: “the scientific community”
a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Ex. “the sense of community that organized religion can provide”
Quotes:
There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.
Margaret J. Wheatley
Alone, we can do so little; Together, we can do so much.
Helen Keller
Knowledge is power, community is strength, and positive attitude is everything.
Lance Armstrong
The General Evaluator leads the evaluation team and ensures the evaluation roles are covered. They evaluate everything that takes place during the meeting.
The General Evaluator Introduces the rest of the evaluation team.
The Speech Evaluator evaluates one of the speeches in tonight’s meeting, explaining what they will be looking for in the speech and the feedback they will give at the end of the night.
The Ah Counter explains the value of identifying filler words and hesitations that were used in our speech tonight.
They count and record filler words such as “ah”, “er”, and “um”. At the end of the night, the Ah Counter reports on our filler word usage at the end of meeting.
The Grammarian identifies proper use of the English language and recognizes the use of the word of the day.
The Timer times each person’s presentation to ensure accurate use of the allotted times.
The Speech Evaluator will discuss the purpose and objectives for the first speech, as well as the length of the speech.
The Toastmaster reads the prepared introduction for Speech #1 before releasing the lectern to Speaker #1.
Speakers have reserved 7 minutes out of 7 planned
The Speech Evaluator will discuss the purpose and objectives for the first speech, as well as the length of the speech.
The Toastmaster reads the prepared introduction for Speech #2 before releasing the lectern to Speaker #2
Speakers have reserved 7 minutes out of 7 planned
Table Topics provides an opportunity for others to practice impromptu speaking, with creative questions. Once Table Topics is complete, the Topics Master returns the lectern to the Toastmaster.
The Toastmaster summarizes the speech portion of the meeting, and introduces the General Evaluator.
Each speech evaluator discusses the speech, with its strengths, areas for improvement (Glow and Grow), followed by evaluations by the rest of the Evaluation Team:
The General Evaluate will present an overall review before returning the lectern to the Toastmaster.
The Toastmaster makes closing comments before turning the lectern over to the President or Presiding Officer.
The VP of Education seeks to fill roles for upcoming meetings.
The President invites input from our guests, summarizes upcoming events, and deals with any club business.
President or Presiding officer closes the meeting.
Meeting Ends