Wimbledon Speakers Club 08th June 2011

Chrissy opened with an ice breaker topic of “Your favourite proverb” to get the evening moving.. the variation of favourites included “Never say die, It ain’t over till the fat lady sings and Smile and the world smiles with you”

An interesting evening which we were delighted to see a few old members turn up such as John, Tony and two new members Matthew and Lena were also welcomed into the fold.

Vanessa then put us to the challenge when she introduced a Topic session of “The Hidden Word”. Each topic speaker got not only a topic to discuss but also a secret word to work into the topic. The audience were poised to spot the word throughout the evening.
Tony won the Debra Prize for his topic on Travel and hidden word computer. No one guessed the word. Well done Tony.
The funniest topic was with Phillippe struggling to incorporate the word Giraffe into the topic English Food!
After a chatty catch up session at the tea break we returned to two very different Speeches. The first was Lena with the topic Valuing Customer Relationships. The key points were People, Process and Performance drivers. Craig evaluated Lena’s performance and passed Lena to the next level.
The second speech was Peter with a speech titled “Volunteering and Experience” A very moving personal experience with his most memorable word being “Amazing”. Phillippe Evaluated Peter Level 3 Speech and passed him with flying colours.

Sam was “Big Ears” for the evening and jogged our memories of the topics and information throughout the evening.
Sally gave the General evaluation and provided in a very professional and encouraging way the points of improvements as well as noting the elements that went well throughout the evening.

Our last meeting is 22 June 2011 so hope to see you all there.

Don’t forget our end of Year Dinner on 17 June 2011. It should be a great evening of fun and games!

Wimbledon Speakers Club 25th May 2011

WIMBLEDON SPEAKERS CLUB
WEDNESDAY 25th MAY 2011
7.30pm

CHAIR: Sally D’Innella
TIMEKEEPER: Katherine Inglis
TOPICS EVALUATOR: Vanessa Villalobos
BUSINESS SESSION: Katherine Inglis
REFRESHMENTS: Chrissy Facon
SPEECH (LEVEL 2): Shirley Hale
EVALUATOR: Gerwyn Davies
SPEECH (LEVEL 2): Sam Williams
EVALUATOR: Philippe Truffert
SPEECH (LEVEL 7): Alice Herron
EVALUATOR: George Filbey
BIG EARS: Helen Kerr
GENERAL EVALUATOR: Ben Topp

Wimbledon Speakers Club 11 May 2011

The evening kicked off with the AGM where the previous committee were voted in for the coming year, Chrissy gave the financial update and discussions on how to grow the club were discussed.
Then the Speaking evening commenced….Michael as Chair stretched our on the feet thinking abilities by giving us a one word topic alphabetically!
Chrissy won “The Debra” prize with the letter H – House-proud. A great visual of House-proud Swiss ladies sweeping the front of their houses.
Alice as Topics evaluator gave contractive points for improvement and points of credit to all topic speekers.
Isabelle provided a lovely cup of tea ( majority Peppermint I might add) to all with nice biscuits for the break chat time.
Gareth Helmsley gave his Level four speech on Caffeen. He brought us though the history of drugs and coffee, the method of producing coffee and myths or scientific studies around the product. Chrissy evaluated Gareth.
Joseph Nurse gave a level 6 speech titled “Be Careful how you throw your words” using sayings such as Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. Vanessa evaluated Joseph passing him on his speech.
George tested our memories with his Big Ears questions ( and apologised for not having sweets as treats for the right answers!).
Finally Phillip gave his General evaluation of the evening. this brought the evening to a close and a natural migration to the bar next door for further chat and refreshments.
A reminder note on End of Year dinner ticket purchase by the next meeting at the latest.

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