Our new Committee

From 1st of July each Toastmaster club changes its President and its whole committee.

Julie

Our new president for July 2011 / July 2012 will be Julie Kertesz, ACS, ALB and soon Adv Comm Gold.

Our VP Education is Katy Woolcott who from now on handles the Agenda too.

Our VP Membership is Philip Landergan, who was with the club from day one.

Our VP Public Relation is Steve Roberts who joined us recently after many visits

Katy

Our Secretary is Richard Green, our Tresurer Jan Lewishan, our is Sergeant of Arms Zandria Richardson

But that is not all!

In our committe we also have Ola Aweson, Webmaster, all questions about D71 website login can be addressed to him.

Vivian Osunde, Hospitality and Eric Storey Assistant Sergeant of Arms, Winston Marchal Mentoring, rounds up our new committee.

We are looking ahead to a great new toastmaster year in our new location, with the help of you all the members.

"We are in this all together" as Julie said at the end of our meeting as she took the Presidency over from Dave Longley, who presided our club last year.

Lewisham Speakers Club

Lewisham Speakers Club,  Toastmasters Club in South East London

Meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday of month at St Margarit Church, Lee at 7pm, meeting starts at 7.15

We learning to speak in public better, in a friendly environment, to listen and "think on our feet". Most important, even, our confidence grows as we help each other with positive feedback.

We are in it all together.

Our latest Competent Communicators

When you join a Toastmasters Club, as ours, you get two Manuals and one if it is the Competent Communicator's Manual with ten projects in growing expertise.

One by one you got to prepare and deliver the next speech.
In very short summary:

1. Speak about yourself
2. Organize your speech
3. Make a point
4. Tell it clearly
5. Add body language
6. Tell with voice variety
7. Use visuals
8. Research it
9. Persuade us
10. Inspire us

When you have delivered the ten speech projects, you become Competent Communicator, as our two members in the photo just did in May and June this year. A great event!

Now they will be receiving two Advanced Manuals they choose and begin the next level.

Our new Toastmaster Year, begins 1st July

The 1st of July our club will have a new president, Julie, we change it every July, so all of us can learn Leadership skills.

Our 'new year' will begin with a special two hour Workshop, at 6th July, a joint event with the Meridian Speakers club from Greenwich.

It will be held at the Spanish Gallien Pub, 48 Greenwich Curch St, vis-a-vis Cuty Shark.

Freddie Daniells hold already this popular Workshop on Evaluation (how to give a Great Feedback) 15 times and the prove of its usefulness is on this photo.

Julie was present as "Target speaker" of one of his last's workhops at Citicriers Toastmasters and promplty won, back in our Club the Best Evaluation Award of the evening.

As all the members of the Area Clubs were invited to our 6th July workshop, the places fill in fast. Add a comment here, with your name and email, or write to Julie to reserve a place. Be with us!

Learn how to give a great feedback that helps the speaker grow while making him or her feel good, and also teaches all the group attending new skills. Then, come and practice.

Our second Manual all members get is Competent Leadership. As we take on different roles in the meetings, all of us get evaluated, and plus, with each task, we can have a written evaluation in this manual and with time get more and more competent in different leadership roles and tasks.

When you are Topics Master

Prepare your questions before the meeting, if possible using the theme of that meeting. Seat in the first row. When the Toastmaster calls you, take over that part of the meeting.
  * Briefly state the purpose of Table Topics and mention any theme.
  * Be certain everyone understands the maximum time they have for their response.
  * Give each speaker a different topic or question, call on speakers at random.
  * State the question briefly – then call on a respondent.
  * Don’t ask two people the same thing unless you specify that each must give opposing viewpoints.
  * You may wish to invite visitors and guests to participate after they have seen one or two members’ responses. But let them know they are free to decline.

During each short speech, sit down, give the floor, then lead the applause and begin the next one.

Watch your total time. You may need to adjust the number of questions so your segment ends on time. Even if your portion started late, try to end on time to avoid the total meeting running overtime.

If your club presents a best Table Topics speaker award:
  * Ask the timer at the end of the Table Topics session to report those eligible for the award. Though the times vary among clubs, generally a participant is disqualified for stopping 15 seconds prior to the minimum time or speaking 15 seconds beyond the maximum.
  * Ask members to vote for best Table Topics speaker and pass their votes to the sergeant at arms or vote counter.

If your club has a Table Topics evaluator, ask for his or her report and then return control of the meeting to the Toastmaster.