Starting at 08:05 AM, with the help of Paula’s shared screen, the agenda was was viewable on the Zoom screen as the meeting started. While there was a dark overcast, with ominous clouds and quiet thunder weather conditions, inside the warmth of our own homes, we stayed dry from the rain, as we joined the regular meeting via Zoom VTC. Bill was the toastmaster of the day and he introduced the theme of the day, “Compassionate Fatigue Remedies”.
Lara facilitated the table topics with questions for volunteers. “If you could be anything in the world, who would you be? [Petar]. “What brought you joy in your younger years?” [Young]. “Who is your favorite super hero and why?” [Paula]. Due to late start we had only 3 volunteers for the extemporaneous speeches, and Bill quickly ushered the audience to the next section for prepared speeches.
We had two speakers, who spoke with passioned and clear messages. Steven shared with the the TM club that he is humbly thinking of idea for social media, as he accepted the election to be the new VP Public Relations for the Club. Steven shared his vision “laziness” for social media and yet he plans to be more active and ask the Club to also be more active in using tools to promote the Club, increase PR and using the FB platform in a new way. Steven asked for feedback for his ideas either today or email him directly. Traci spoke about “Courage Over Comfort” via her lessons from the book Building a Story Brand, hitting some key points from the book and providing a handout via email.
Paula facilitated the Evaluation sections, and introduced the main evaluators. Sam provided feedback to Steven on his overall presentation, commenting on the content and delivery. She suggested considering having less gestures in Zoom forum in comparison to in-person presentation. Scott evaluated Traci’s presentation, congratulating her on the completion of Classic Manual “Competent Communicator” and starting her first advance presentation. Scott suggested improvements in the area of revising the opening and clarifying on speech content. One stretch goal, Scott suggested for Traci, is to find a balance of prepared versus improvisational, experimenting where that level is where you start to see the comfort-zone and go beyond, to orient the speech to be both prepared and natural. There were three or four volunteers for the round robin evaluation, which either Samantha or Scott solicited from the audience. Paula wrap up the evaluation section with thanking the evaluators and reminding the audience of the “sandwich” method. Due to agenda delays, Paula quickly transitioned the meeting back to the toastmaster.
We had seventeen (17) people attend the zoom meeting on this overcast raining day. There were 3 guests: Vivi, Milton, and Jeff. It’s the end of May with one month left before the change of the officer-committee for the next fiscal year. Please remember, that our Club does not meet on the 1st Saturday of the month. The next meeting will be Saturday June 13, 2020 on the same Zoom bridge.
