Jovica was the Toastmaster improvisor, without an agenda handout, introducing the theme of the meeting “Proper Question”, or in Jovica’s rephrasing, “Asking A Good Question”. We had two visitors, two second-time-speakers, six table topics participants, an impromptu general evaluator, with two evaluators and round robin volunteer evaluators.
Traci facilitated the table topics section using the theme of the meeting. Giving the instructions, she posed the proper questions: “What if you could make a perfect mother’s day celebration?” [Paula] “What would be your master mind retreat?” [Aleli] “What kind of animal would you like to meet and where?” [Jimmy] “What or where is your oasis?”[Judy]. Wrapping up the section and giving her insights and encouragement, Traci close the section and return the online speaker back to the Toastmaster.
The Toastmaster introduced the two speakers, who prepared a speech from one of the many Toastmaster manuals. Both new members, it was their second presentation at the Club. Young, as a data scientist, presented his UW research proposal on monitoring trajectory of a disaster and responses. Young outline his research proposal and possible outcome. Quoting the famous speaker Tony Robins, “Emotion is created by motion”, and giving a callout of visiting guest Judy from her table topic response, Young delivered a well developed and practiced speech. The second speaker was Hannah, a millennial professional woman, speaking of her quarter life crisis. Like an icebreaker speech, we learned more about Hannah’s goal oriented approach and her thoughtful reflection on what could happen, what did happen to her, when you achieve your goals in your Plan for Life.
Jovica called upon for an impromptu general evaluator, Aleli, to facilitate the evaluation section. Partner with the two evaluators Petar and Paula, along with the round-robin volunteers, the evaluation section highlighted their appreciation for the speakers preparedness and delivery. The round robin volunteers were Lara, Sari, Paula, Judy, Scott, and Jimmy. Some of phrases, from the robin robin, the suggested improvements where, “consider the hook”, “show it in a dramatic way”, “personal and powerful, and you could have expanded on the content”. Then the general evaluator, commented on the entire meeting, and closed the section with handoff to the Toastmaster.
President Lara warmly asked the two visitors, Sari and Judy, to share briefly on their meeting experience. We’re always so glad to have guests join us on our Saturday morning regular meeting.
Lara also had club business announcements at the end of the meeting, before the meeting adjourned. First, the committee for officer election has concluded their work and our next meeting will announce and induct the new set of officers. Second, the May 16th regular meeting is cancelled due to the majority of the officers attending the District 2 Toastmaster Convention Online. Thirdly, the officers committee will meet immediately after today’s regular meeting to discuss the club operations.
