Members Dave, Dillibe, Mary, Nicole, Ray, Sally and Sonja were joined by guests Mineko, Jennifer and Mihaela.
Toastmaster Dave led a high-energy showcase meeting on the benefits of Speechcraft, our introductory course for beginning speakers which launches on June 30th.
Our speaker was Sonja, who shared lessons she learned by giving her first three speeches in Toastmasters. Sonja spoke based on the fourth project from the Competent Communication manual, Working with Words.

Members and guests practiced speaking off the cuff in the Table Topics session led by Ray. Because the theme was after all Speaking Off the Cuff, Ray made up questions on the fly based on audience input. Sally won Best Table Topics for her spirited impromptu promotion of the search tool Bing over that other leading search tool!

Mary demonstrated speech evaluation by giving Sonja supportive feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Toastmaster Dave explained the upcoming Speechcraft program and the meeting closed with a Q & A session. Mineko and Jennifer decided to join the Speechcraft at the close of the meeting! Yeah!
Speechcraft kicks off next meeting, June 30 at 7:45 sharp.
See you there!

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Nine members and three guests attended today’s meeting, led by our immediate past president, Dave.  The theme was “spring cleaning”.  Dave revealed that cleaning in his house involves removing massive amounts of dog hair from his furniture, clothes, and carpet (yikes!).

Raymound kicked off the speaking section of the meeting.  He spoke on the topic of personal leadership.  Personal leadership involves taking control of yourself.  In his final speech before moving out of town, Raymound cited a number of sources to support the statements made in his speech. (Competent Communication project 7, Research Your Topic)

Our club president, Ray took the lectern as our second speaker.  He revealed his vision for the club: so many members that we get noise complaints!  Ray suggested the Speechcraft program as a way to achieve this objective. (CC project 9, Persuade with Power)

Tables topics were led by Mary.  Our guest, Sally, won table topics speaking about how she hopes to get her infant daughter to landscape the front yard one day.

Our evaluators of the meeting were Sonja, Nicole, Scott, Amara and Andrew.  It was Sonja’s first outing as general evaluator, and she identified opportunities to make the club meetings more efficient.

At the end of the meeting guests Sally and Dillibe submitted their applications for membership. Yeah!

Our next meeting will be on 6/2.

The theme of this week’s Seattle Sunrise toastmasters meeting was “Law and Order”.  Our toastmaster of the morning was the honorable Scott and he led the meeting like a court proceeding.

Nicole started the speaking session by talking about an organization called Charity Water which makes water available to those in countries where clean drinking water is not accessible. (Competent Communication Project 9, Persuade with Power.)

Our second speaker, Andrew, delivered project 4 from the competent communicator manual.  His objective was to use vivid language in his speech.  The topic he chose to speak about was “crucial conversations”, or those conversations that area challenge to navigate in work and our personal lives. (CC No. 4, How to Say It)

Raymound rounded out the speaking session.  He spoke about how he was able to “bounce back” from a tough life event by “thinking like a winner”. (CC No. 6, Vocal Variety)

The court proceedings recessed into a table topics session led by Ray.  Guest, John won the best table topics by speaking about how he’s never been called to jury duty (though he would like to be).

Our evaluators of the morning were Sonja, Tammy, and Stephen.  Mary was the general evaluator of the meeting.  At the end of the meeting, the jury (all meeting attendees) found Tammy guilty of being the best evaluator of the morning.

In another development, Dave was awarded a new badge for achieving Advanced Communicator Bronze. Congratulations, Dave!

The verdicts rendered by our guests included “Fun!” and “Lots of positive energy.”

The next meeting will be on 5/19 and Dave will be the Toastmaster.