This section intends to give you a rough idea of what are meetings are about. Do you want to know more about them, be part and improve your communication skills? |
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Guests are more than welcome at our meetings! In fact, all members have once been guests! |
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Guests and members receive a dossier with all the information and material they will need throughout the meeting. |
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The meeting agenda contains all the information on the meeting, the different parts, roles and the time alloted for each speaker. |
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Tomás Calvo Sawada acted as Toastmaster. The Toastmaster is the meeting’s director and host. |
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Brian Frenkel, the timer of the evening, explains the meaning of each light and how speakers should speak within their alloted time. |
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Ximena Góngora Moya proposes the word BUZZ as te Word of the Day, she explains the meaning of the word and provides examples. Guests and members are encouraged to use the word of the day as much as possible in their speeches. |
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Our immediate past president María Teresa Vago and our honorary member, Sidney Alpert, listen to the impromptu speeches delivered by guests and members. |
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Sebastiàn del Rincón delivers an impromptu speech on the subject proposed for that evening by the Table Topic Master: Migration. |
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The club has been distinguished by Toastmasters International on several occasions for its outstanding accomplishments. |
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Michael Seferian visited us from Europe and delivered an impromptu speech. The table topics session insures that members and guests who are willing, may speak. The purpose of this part of the meeting is to have everyone "think on their feet" and speak for a minute or so. |
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Kelly Reynols gave us an american perspective of the topic suggested for the Table Topic Session. |
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Our ever-smiling Sergeant at Arms, Gisselly Díaz enriched the session with her charming Dominican ways. |
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Once the Table Topic Session is over, the Toastmaster open the second part of the meeting: the PREPARED SPEECHES part. |
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Luz Etchemendigaray delivered her 7th Speech in the Communication Track. |
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She is working towards her Competent Communicator Award, which she will achieve once she delivers her first 10 speeches. |
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Toastmasters is a learn-by-doing workshop in which members and guests learn how to become better speakers and better listeners. |
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Members provide feedback to speakers by means of a Feedback form. |
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Each speaker is introduced by the Toastmaster of the night. |
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Sidney Alpert is our most experienced speaker. He is an asset to the club and a source of inspiration for our younger members and guests. |
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Members vote for the best spaker of the night, the best table topics and the best evaluator. |
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Members are given a minute or two to provide feedback to speakers. There is no instructor in a Toastmasters meeting. Instead, members evaluate one another's presentations. This feedback process is a key part of the program's success. |
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Tomás Calvo Sawada passes control of the meeting to María Teresa Vago, the General Evaluator of the night. |
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Napoléon Paz acted as evaluator, showing once again his great vigour and enthusiasm. |
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People join Toastmasters to improve their speaking and leadership skills, and these skills are improved with the help of evaluations |
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The timer's yellow light warns the speaker that he/she should be rounding up. One of the skills Toastmasters practice is expressing a thought within a specific time. As timer you are responsible for monitoring time for each meeting segment and each speaker. |
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Gloria Cook evaluates one the speakers. Her experience as a speaker is an invaluable source of feedback for new members. |
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Being general evaluator is a big responsibility and it is integral to the success of every single club member. People join Toastmasters because they have a goal – they want to learn something. The club is where they learn. If the learning environment isn’t focused and fun, members won’t learn what they joined to learn. |
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The Toast! The reason why our club is called TOASTmasters! |
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Elaine Cook acts as Grammarian. One benefit of Toastmasters is that it helps people improve their grammar and word use. Being grammarian also provides an exercise in expanding listening skills. |
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Our guest from Pakistan got the BEST TABLE TOPICS ribbon! |
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The club's President, Lucas Ramón Mendos, takes control of the meeting for the final remmarks and adjournment. |
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Guests are welcome to provide their comments and feedback on the meeting. Occasionally members make closing remmarks as well. |
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The Vice President Education, Alejandro Sueldo, assists the President to gather volunteers for the next meeting in the Business Session. |
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The presidents thanks all attendants for their presence and adjourns the meeting. |
