Meeting Overview

Meeting Of:

April 3, 2008

Start Time:

19:00

End Time:

21:00

Members Attending:

23

Total Membership:

Quorum Met?

Guests Attending:

7

Topic:

Complacency

Word of Day:

At Sixes and Sevens

Club Officials

President:

VP Education:

VP Membership:

VP Public Relations:

Lily Wang

Secretary:

Sergeant-at-Arms:

Treasurer:

Meeting Officials

Toastmaster:

Huub Schrader

General Evaluator:

Yann

Table Topics Mstr:

Kay Chen

Table Topics Eval:

Sally Li

Grammarian:

Carol Wei

Greeter:

Irene Ong

Timer:

Malina Ma

Ah Counter:

Joyce Wang

Educational Instr.:

N/A

Table Topics

Contents (include topic and participant):

1. Aish – No one want to be reached by mobile phone all the time. People should keep their mobile phone beep in public place.
2. Selina – She used mobile phone quite frequently to contact toastmasters and make schedule for every meeting. She tends to use mobile phone more often in other aspects of her work.
3. Dinah – Pros and cons of mobile phone to society
4. Cece (Guest) – Once she lost her mobile phone and finally got it back
5. Sally – She likes the advanced functionalities of mobile phone and use the phone as microphone to practice Karaoke
6. Fay – Her bosses and colleagues kept calling her through mobile phone in her off-work time
7. Charles – The bug of his mobile phone made him send the same message 5 times to his friends

Prepared Speech #1

Speaker:

Lydia Zhang

Evaluator:

Qinghong Zhang

Speech No. & Type:

1 - Icebreaker

Speech Title:

Volunteer In Museum

Speech Evaluation:

- You delivered a smooth speech. Well prepared.

- Your speech is structured and informative

- Your expression is not emotional enough. Do not memorize the whole sentences, but the key words. Try to express those words in more natural way

- Use more body languages. Try to walk a little on the stage 

- You did not use your notes at all. Therefore, you can go to stage without notes next time

Prepared Speech #2

Speaker:

Felicia Dan Fang

Evaluator:

Dinah Lin

Speech No. & Type:

1 – Icebreaker

Speech Title:

The Lure Of Wonder

Speech Evaluation:

-          You told us a very nice personal story

-          You always kept smile on stage. That’s great

-   The tile “The Lure Of Wonder” is very attractive

-   You are well prepared and gave a strong conclusion in end

-          You could add more body languages and eye contacts next time

-   Your pronunciation need improvement

Prepared Speech #3

Speaker:

Sally Bi

Evaluator:

Charles Gao

Speech No. & Type:

1 - Icebreaker

Speech Title:

The Portrait

Speech Evaluation:

-          You delivered a very brave speech

-          You could spend more time in preparing next time

-    Your gesture is very natural, but you tend to walk too much on the stage

-   You are persistent to finish the speech, but you pay more attention to time control

-          You need to speak louder

-   You could use some interesting stories to draw people’s attention at the first beginning

Awards

Best Table Topics:

Sally Li

Best Speaker:

Felicia Peng

Best Evaluator:

Dinah Lin

Announcements

1. Dinah Lin completed her CC (Competent Communicator) manual。 Congratulations！
2. We plan to have an education session in the morning of April 12^th (Saturday)

Robin proposed a discussion session about concerns to the new club in Monday evening regularly. The initial meeting time is at 10 am on April 5, 2008 (Saturday), and the venue is Starbucks at Pacific Century Mall.