UM Masters Meeting 1st April 2015 - Evaluations

 

The theme for UM Toastmasters meeting on April 1 2015 was Evaluations! Our Toastmaster of the day was Colin. He did a great job filling up empty roles and once again our members (June, Nicole, Charith and Mohsin) did a great stepping up and filling those roles. The word of the day was Dupe! and all of our members used it at least once during the meeting. Amy was our speaker for the day and in her speech she had an interesting perspective on dominant body language people utilize in their daily interactions! Mohsin was our Table Topics master and he invited our two guests as Table Topics contestants, both of whom obliged and did a fantastic job as first time participants in the UM Toastmaster Table Topic session. June, our general evaluator presented the gold star award to both of our guests. This was the first time to my knowledge both of our first time guests were presented with the Gold Star award! We hope to have them as members of our club. The meeting was filled with laughter and interesting topics of discussion! June also reminded all our members that our Executive committee member elections will coming up very soon!

 

Blog by Mohsin Khan

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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 18th February 2015 - Hero

UM Toastmasters meeting: The theme of our meeting was Hero (it was changed at the last minute from Valentine's day/Love because we had a similar theme at our last meeting 'connecting with the heart). The world of the day was Venerate, which fit in nicely with our theme because we often venerate our heroes. Our Toastmaster was Mohsin. There were a number of roles that needed to be filled and once again, our TM members (Charith, Maimouna, Agnes, Amy and Nicole) showed great leadership skills and stepped up to fill those roles. Dinesh did a very informative presentation on 'Planning a path to DTM'. Our guest Madushan did a wonderful job as a Table Topic contestant and answered the question 'if he an opportunity to spend a day with his hero, what would he do?'. Overall, our meeting ran bit late but we were able to finish on time, thanks to our members concise presentations into the latter portion of the meeting. 

 

Blog by Mohsin Khan

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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 115 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 14th January 2015 - Age is only a number

 

 

Today we had a great meeting! As Toastmaster I chose the theme “Age is only a number” I chose this theme as January is a busy birthday month in our family and I always reflect on years gone by, our accomplishments and goals, as our opportunity it illimitable..

 

Abi graciously accepted to be our Grammarian, our word was limitable which is quite a mouthful, however most of us were able to use it in introductions and Colin did a great job of sneaking that work into his humour, which he volunteered to do. Very cute story about his little boy.

 

Charith’s presented to the group How to take a photograph, it was very interesting and his audience didn’t even notice that he went over time, all of us take pictures these days, and his tips on how to take a good photo were well received!

 

Mouna described the benefits of Table Topics clearly before she approached her audience, as well Mouna explained the timing. She called on Agnes and Githani to come up and reflect upon their youth. Kudos to them both for approaching the podium with confidence!

 

In announcements it was noted that our Training for club officers is Jan. 21 and 31 and all officers were encouraged to let our President Charith know when they could attend. As well the Junior Speech contest is February 4^th and Cathy will chair that contest with the help of June.

 

Have a wonderful week and remember no matter our age we are all capable of great things!

 

Blog by Catherine Plouffe

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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 17th December 2014 - Happy Holidays

The theme of the Dec 17th UM Master Toastmasters meeting was Happy Holidays. Cathy was our Toastmaster for the day and she did a wonderful job of not only hosting the meeting but also organized a mini-holiday party during our meeting. Everybody enjoyed snacking on the cheese, fresh fruit and vegetable trays that were served. We had two speakers for the meeting. Agnes spoke about three steps required to get rid of body fat. Mohsin did his last project from the Competent communications manual, the ice-breaker called life changing moments. After the speech portion of the meeting, we played a shortened version of Table Topic where people wrote 'secrets' about themselves on a piece of paper and put them in a box which was then shuffled. The Table Topic participants picked out the pieces of paper from a box and had 30 seconds to speak about which member of the club they thought the secret belonged to. It was a lot of fun and everybody had a good laugh. Venkat, our district area governor also joined us for our meeting and presented Mohsin with a pin for completing the Competent Communications manual.

Blog by Mohsin Khan

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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 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

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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.

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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 22nd October 2014 – TV Shows

 



Today’s meeting went very well even if there are only a few people who attended the meeting. Moshin did a very good job on his first time as Toastmaster of the Day. He picked the theme TV shows. Everybody shared their thoughts about the theme; some used to watch shows on TV before they were very busy in school, and some are not really fond of watching TV. Our grammarian is Keshab, who selected the word “endurance.” There were a few missing roles for the day but members Keshab, June, Charith, and Abiodun were very happy to fill in these roles.

 

Dinesh delivered his a speech in his Competent Communicator handbook focusing on visual aids. He presented the topic “Salmon Run” and used great pictures and slides to illustrate the story of salmons going back to their place of birth to breed and reproduce a new generation of salmons. Charith, who is also our time keeper, did a very good job both on evaluating Dinesh’s speech and keeping note of the time.

 

June filled in the role of Table Topics and picked Heidi and John to talk about topics relating to TV shows and their lives. Both did a great job thinking on their feet and talking about their thoughts on the question. We did not have a General Evaluator so the group went on to do a round table evaluation.

 

Charith also explained to the group the sandwich method of giving feedback. Anna delivered a very detailed Ah-Counter report. After a few announcements from the club president Charith, June closed the meeting.

 

All in all, this meeting was a success.

 

Blog by John Leric Merin

 

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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