Brentwood
Evening Toastmasters
Meeting
Notes
Tuesday,
October 8, 2013
Toastmaster
for the evening – Lysa Rigo
Opening:
Ryan Osborne opened the
meeting in our usual meeting space, the Good News classroom of Forest
Hills UMC, and led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Club News:
Immediate Past
President Rachel Sumner welcomed the attendees and conducted opening
club business.
This week is fall break
for Metro schools, and so the meeting had a little lighter turnout
than usual, but we had FOUR guests!
Toastmaster:
Lysa Rigo chose a theme for our meeting – “F words”
Humorist: Mike
Costa
Wordmaster:
Chris Meador
Word of the Day:
perambulate |pəˈrambyəˌlāt|
verb
[
no obj. ] walk or travel through or around a place or area, esp. for
pleasure and in a leisurely way: he grew weary of perambulating over
rough countryside in bad weather | [ with obj. ] : she perambulated
the square.
Table Topics Master:
Ani Osborne posed a series of Table Topics building up to her speech.
Speaker #1: Krishna
Rao encouraged highly intelligent people to pursue difficult work.
(1:13)
Speaker #2: Chris
Meador described why employees may choose to leave their jobs. (1:35)
Speaker #3: Lysa Rigo
speculated about the results of teacher evaluation and merit pay.
(1:23)
Speaker #4: Rachel
Sumner questioned the motivation of “do your best.” (1:45)
Prepared Speeches:
Speaker #1: Ani Osborne
exposed management misconceptions of employee motivation. (8:30)
Speaker #2: Susan
Martin - “Let Me Tell You a Story” (7:20)
Speaker #3: Pankaj Soni
- “The State of the Meeting” (7:44)
Speech Evaluations:
General Evaluator:
Krishna Rao
Evaluator #1: Mike
Costa (3:08)
Evaluator #2: Chris
Meador (3:16)
Evaluator #3: Susan
Martin (3:01)
Timer / Vote Counter:
Ryan Osborne
Grammarian / Ah
Counter: Georgie (our guest!)
Awards:
Best Table Topics:
Chris Meador
Best Evaluator: Mike
Costa
Best Speaker: Pankaj
Soni
Word of the Day Users:
Mike, Pankaj, Krishna, Rachel, Lysa
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