BET Meeting Notes for June 25, 2013

Brentwood Evening Toastmasters

Meeting Notes

Tuesday June 25, 2013

Toastmaster for the evening – Ani Osborne

Opening:

BET president Rachel Sumner opened the meeting and led attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance, then welcomed our guests.

Club News:

Rachel expressed her appreciation to officers and club members for their hard work this past year and all they have done to support the club during her term in office as president.

Allan Daniels then inducted the following new officers for the 2013-2014 year:

President:                    Mark Bayless

VP of Education:          Pankaj Soni

VP of Membership:       Ani Osborne

VP of PR:                    Janet Schreibman

Treasurer:                    Mike Costa

Secretary:                    Chris Meador

Sergeant at Arms:        Richard Naslund

Word of the Day: Michael Moryc -- permeate

Humorist: none

Table Topics:  Richard Naslund

Speaker #1:  Mark Bayless – “Tell us about your favorite summer place as a kid and why it is so memorable?” 1:30

Speaker #2:   Lysa Rigo – “What’s your favorite treat from the ice cream truck or ice store and when?” 1:30

Speaker #3:  Krishna Rao – “When you think of summer, what food do you think about and why?” 1:30

Prepared Speeches:

Speaker #1:  Russ Vantrease – CC #10 Inspire Your Audience; “Time Marches On” 8-10 min. (9:36)

Speaker #2:  Mike Costa -- #1 The Successful Club Series, Moments of Truth educational speech 30-35 min.

General Evaluator:  Tim Diehl

Evaluator #1:  Allan Daniels

Evaluator #2:  no evaluator

Timer:   Chris Meador

Grammarian/Ah Counter:  Ryan Osborne

Vote Counter:  Andrew Payne

Word of the Day Users:  Allan Daniels

Awards:

Table Topics:  Lysa Rigo

Evaluator:  Allan Daniels

Speaker:  Russ Vantrease

Moments of Truth – Results:

First Impresssions

·         had new guest insight as member of group

·         most discover BET online; web resources gave comprehensive information about club

·         40% of toastmaster members don’t stay; but not so at BET

·         We do invite guests to share their thoughts and invite them to join

·         Might need bigger sign out front

·         Need to be sure and intro guests to entire membership at meetings

Membership Orientation:

·         BET provides manual electronically now; do formal member inductions into club; present first speech ribbons

·         BET does assign a mentor if new member desires

·         BET does educational sessions periodically throughout year – however we don’t display chart

·         Members are free to go to Easy-Speak website and self-assign roles when you want to speak; Easy-Speak works well for us

·         Good opportunities for members to participate in various ways; good turnover mix of officers

Fellowship, Variety and Communications

·         Do good job of greeting guests warmly

·         Enjoy very diverse membership, speech topics

·         Need to improve frequency of social events – planned and impromptu

·         Do a good job in participating in area, district and international events…but could do better

 

Program Planning and Meeting Organization

·         For special meetings or events, good to post it on website

·         For creative table topics, maybe we should have occasional evaluations to help coach on impromptu speaking

·         We give positive evaluations but sometimes it is so tactful it lacks true meat

Membership Strength

·         Yes, have 41 members currently

·         Many long-time members mixed with strong, diverse group of new members

Achievement Recognition

·         #2 – don’t display charts; not sure it is purposeful

·         Need to educate membership more about Easy-Speak and how it keeps track of your goals

·         #6 – officers use it but need to educate membership in this area