UM Masters Meeting 12th November 2014 - Snow

Our Toastmasters meeting for Nov. 12 was great. Charith was our Toastmaster for the day and he did a great job organizing and conducting the meeting. Charith was very proficient in filling roles at the last minute. The theme of our meeting was Snow and the word of the day was Huburistic. Kesab filled the humor role. Due to absence of our initial speaker, we had two members from our club step up to take the speaker role. Maimouna did a speech on the elements of culture shock and Mohsin did a speech on skills kids should be taught in school. Cathy and Nicole evaluated Maimouna and Mohsin's speech respectively. We did not have a Table topics session because of the two speeches. We also had a new guest who complemented our meeting for it's proficient organization. Overall, the meeting went well and ended on time.

 

Blog by Mohsin Khan

VP - Education

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If you would like to take part in a UM Masters meeting, we’re located in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba. Our meetings are held every Wednesday from 12:05 –12:50 PM in Room 111 at St. John’s College (which is part of the University of Manitoba).

If you're in Winnipeg and interested in sitting in on a club meeting to see if Toastmasters is right for you, please feel free to contact Catherine Plouffe at Catharine.Plouffe@umanitoba.ca  

UM Masters Meeting 5th November 2014 – Remembering

We had a great meeting today. The call to order and introduction of Toastmaster of the day, June was done by Nicole. June’s theme for the day was “Remembering” which is quite timely, as this is the month of remembrance in Canada.

 

She did the welcome speech and introduced the Grammarian of the day, Heidi. Heidi word of the day was “Honesty” which goes well with the theme.

 

June shared a humorous story with us and then it was time to introduce ourselves while incorporating the theme “Remembering and the word for the day ‘Honesty” in our introduction. We had 13 people in attendance including 1 guest.

 

We had a speech and two table topics. The speech was by Mohsin and his topic was ‘Percutaneous Coronary Intervention” which is quite technical but he did an excellent job delivering it in the simplest way everyone will understand using visual aid. The table topics was coordinated by Nicole and she asked questions based on the theme “Remembering”, Anna and Keisha were selected for the table topics and they both did a good job.

 

The speech evaluation was done by Charith and he pointed out good points, growth points and ended with good points. The table topics and general evaluations were given by Wayne and Sunday respectively using the same style as above.

 

The Ah count was done by Anna and our timer was John. Our guest was asked to comment on the meeting. The meeting was closed by Nicole.

Blog by Abiodun Ojo

Member

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If you would like to take part in a UM Masters meeting, we’re located in Winnipeg at the University of Manitoba. Our meetings are held every Wednesday from 12:05 –12:50 PM in Room 111 at St. John’s College (which is part of the University of Manitoba).

If you're in Winnipeg and interested in sitting in on a club meeting to see if Toastmasters is right for you, please feel free to contact Catherine Plouffe at Catharine.Plouffe@umanitoba.ca