Thursday, June 19th 5:30pm–6:30pm Lueken’s South, Bemidji Toastmaster: Heather WAG Master: Paula Speaker #1: Kim S. Topic: Mentoring (10-15 min) Speaker #2: John S. Title: The Natural Speaker (5-7 min) Table Topics: Jim Evaluator #1: Noemi Evaluator #2: Sam Timer: Paula Meeting theme: "Sauntering into Summer" | We had a such a fantastic meeting Thursday, June 19th that I felt I needed to spurt a summary of our learning and fun! Heather led the meeting as Toastmaster for her first time! She did a great job with setting a positive tone for the meeting with her "Sauntering into Summer" intro as well as positive segues between elements of the meeting. Nice work! Paula set the word of the day as "spurt", counted fillers, and also performed timer duties. Triple duty! Kim Smith did a fun and informative presentation about mentoring from the Better Speakers Series. Lifesavers anyone? :-) Her speech last night helped her fulfill her advanced leadership manual. Way to go Kim! John Schoenecker made a powerful and heartfelt speech about good communication being much more than polished technical speaking and hearing. It was his first project in the advanced communication manual, Public Relations. Jim Gubbels led an animated round of Table Topics with questions around food, vacation, and celebrities. Noemi and I were speak evaluators and the meeting wrapped up with lots of smiles and laughter. -- Notes submitted by Samantha Nienow Join us for next week's meeting on Tuesday, June 24th from noon to 1pm. at Lueken's North. |