Greater Davison Toastmasters Regular Toastmasters Meetings
Monday June 16, 2025
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
Gene Kopczyk
VP of Education
Debra Loader
VP of Membership
SHEILA JOHNSON
Secretary
Lorie Lyons
Treasurer
Jennifer Turner
Sgt. at Arms
Ronnie Cunningham
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.
7:08-7:13 – Toastmaster of the Day
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.
Meeting Theme, Word of the Day, Definition, and Quotes:
Theme of the Day:
“Ingenuity”
- What is ingenuity..?? What does ingenuity mean to you?? Inspirational, Resourceful, Inventive, Creative, Intuitive. I’m going to ask a few of you to tell me in 1 or 2 words what it means to you,
- By definition, it refers to a skill or cleverness or combining inventiveness. It encompasses the ability to think of clever ways of doing something and demonstrates inventive skill or imagination. Ingenuity is about finding innovative solutions to problems and showcasing creativity in various contexts.
- How about the ingenuity of how we communicate now vs the past 25 years. I can remember the beepers to contact someone directly without calling them, we would have to run to a pay phone in hopes of connecting with that person on a phone that WASN’T in use. Remember those days?? I remember vividly try to call in sales orders during the course of a day to meet the cutoff times. We then got the walkie talkie phones where everyone seemed to step on each other while trying to talk. The Blackberry’s, Flip tops, then the IPHONE seemed to catapult us into uncharted waters. The technology and ingenuity kept coming faster than we could comprehend.
- And now we have AI-“Artificial Intelligence”- I did not see this coming so quickly-did you..?? some of us are utilizing it more and more everyday and some us probably haven’t even used it yet. I find it very intriguing BUT also makes me nervous that someday we could be replaced by robots or a “communicating computer” that reasons with us. Pretty scary for some of us.
Word of the Day: “IMAGINATION”
- (NOUN)
- DEFINITION: The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality:
- Creative ability, Ability to confront or deal with a problem: RESOURCEFULNESS
Quotes:
“Albert Einstein:” We can’t solve today’s problems with the mentality that created them”…
: “Don’t listen to the person who has the answers, listen to the one who has the questions”..
“Walt Disney”: I resent the Limitations of my own Imagination……
: “Laughter is Timeless, Imagination has no age, and Dreams are FOREVER……
7:13-7:14 -The General Evaluator
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 Evaluation Team
7:14-7:15 – Speech Evaluators
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.
7:15-7:16 – Ah Counter
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.
7:16-7:17 – Grammarian
The Grammarian identifies proper use of the English language and recognizes the use of the word of the day.
7:17-7:18 – Timer
The Timer times each person’s presentation to ensure accurate use of the allotted times.
Speeches
7:19-7:20 – Toastmaster introduces the first speech evaluator
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.
7:20-7:27 – Speaker 1
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7:27-7:28 – The Toastmaster summarizes the first speech, and introduces the second Speech Evaluator.
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
7:28-7:35 – Speaker 2
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Table Topics
7:35-7:36 – Toastmaster Introduces the Topics Master
7:36-7:51 – Table Topics
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.
7:51-8:04 – Evaluations
The Toastmaster summarizes the speech portion of the meeting, and introduces the General Evaluator.
General Evaluator and the Evaluation Team
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 Ah Counter details the improper use of filler words.
- Our Grammarian will evaluate our use of the English language and the Word of the Day.
- The Timer will give their report on how well we kept to the allotted times.
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.
8:04-8:15 – Closing
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.
Meeting Ends
President or Presiding officer closes the meeting.
Meeting Ends