Twenty years ago on this day, a pair of hijacked airplanes destroyed the World Trade Center Towers, a third and fourth plane crashed in the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field respectively.
For the eight meeting of the fiscal year 2021-22, experienced Toastmaster Steven chose the topic of Never Forget.
Sergeant at Arms Bill Scott shared with us zoom etiquette rules. Quote of the day was:
Forget the mistake, remember the lesson.
Toastmaster of the day continued with theme of the meeting, starting with a minute of silence in honor of the victims, then narrating the events that happened 20 years ago on 9/11.
Word of the day, presented by the Grammarian Bill:
amnesia, meaning a gap in one’s memory.
Sarah was in charge of timing speakers, impromptu speeches and evaluators.
Our three speakers for the day were:
Saurabh presenting his Presentation Mastery, Lvl 1, Evaluation & Feedback project: “Effective Speaking”, a speech describing the blocks that make public speaking effective: What you say – your word selection is different based on your audience, shorter sentences are easily understandable and more powerful. How do you say it: the tonality of your voice. This speech included a very interesting quote supporting the value of tone: 10% of the conflict in the world is because of difference in opinion and 90% is because of tone of the voice.
Jovica presenting his Presentation Mastery, Lvl 2, Understanding Your Communication Style project: ”Tennis GOAT“, a high energy memorable speech, describing the career of serbian Tennis GOAT Novak Djokovic, with a call to action to witness a historical game on 9/12th: the final of US OPEN, N. Djokovic vs D. Medvedev.
Judy presenting her Introduction to Toastmasters Mentoring project: “A Letter of Gratitude“, a speech describing learnings from mentors, thank you for demystifying the design principles, sincerely your Microsoft mentee, Judy. With a call to action to think about those who made an impact in our lives, to either write a quick thank you note or pay it forward.
Table topics master of the day Weihu used job interview questions to elicit impromptu speeches, followed by a role play of job interviewer/interviewee :
First part – questions by Table topics master
Tell me about some constructive feedback that you have received from your manager or peer.
Tell me about who is the most challenging person you have worked with.
Tell me about a recent time in work when you had a lot of fun.
Second part – interviewer/interviewee role play
What quality do you bring to the team ? – Collaborative team player
I know you love tennis, if we hire you today how would you go about teaching our team to play tennis.
What personal challenges do you bring to the table, that you’d be happy to work on?
Evaluators Paula, Ahmad and Petar helped our speakers become more effective communicators by sharing valuable feedback about their projects.
We had three guests in the meeting, one joining from Pennsylvania, and two from Seattle. Aren’t online meetings a great opportunity to connect Toastmasters and guests living in distant cities?
Come join us for prepared speeches, impromptu speeches, word and quote of the day and more Toastmasters fun here at Seattle Sunrise Toastmasters!
Our next meeting is September 18th.
hello there! Joined this club in 2020, what I like the most about Seattle Sunrise is that it meets early on Saturdays ;-)
