Business Talk Toastmasters moves base

2008 New Venue

The club has now settled in and is based at Level 12, 121 Exhibition street. Attached are some photos which give you different perspectives of a top grade venue. There is a security system in operation, so vistors must contact Gail 03 9655 8894,Verena 9651 7613 or Shanta 96552068 if they wish to attend.

Today's speeches are a fair representation of what you may expect Shanta(in picture at podium) spoke on a contentious topic of every day relevance - "Are today's kids more spoilt than before or, are today's parents spoil-sports" -speech # 6 his speech had great entertainment value .In contrast Gail Smyth speaking from the advanced manual, presented us with an evocative analysis and rendition of some of Banjo Paterson's poetry appealing to our senses. One of the great benefits of this club is that we run a lunch session and finish on the dot within the hour at 1:30 pm. We had 21 members attend meeting 271 with 3 visitors and one new member joining up today. Visitors are welcome to come and savor the experience.

Shanta
Blog Editor

What toastmasters did for a club member

Hi,

The 5 speeches I gave since joining has made all the difference to my confidence and launched my career as a speaker. Tomorrow I will do two 20 minute presentations to a crowd of 80 CEOs and CFOs and on Friday I am a guest speaker at a Love Your Business Community dinner where I will speak to 50 business owners.

I could not have done this without the experience I gained with Toastmasters.

Warm Regards

David Markus
Founder and Managing Director
Combo

2007 Christmas Debate

2007 Christmas Debate

July 2007 to June 2008 Club Executive

Lets congradulate all of the following members who have been elected to the club executive. These members will be leading you over the next 12 months and making sure your needs are being served as a club member. You are most welcome to contact them if you have any further queries in relation to how you can help them out.

President - Verena
VP-Education - Andrew F
VP-Membership - Ronny
VP-Public Relations - Enri
Secretary - Ankur
Treasurer - Tony
Sgt.at Arms - Gail
Past President - Scott

2007 D73 National Conference

A special mention to our long time club International Speech Champion George O'Keeffe. He again for the 9th time made his way to the District 73 International Competition to come 2nd overall. This is an awesome feat and well done George. What may not be realised is the incredible amount of preparation George has put in over the years for these competitions.

I would also like to mention a special thanks to George in recognition to all of the preparation which goes on behind the scenes. We would love to hear more about this in the future.

You can follow the link below to see more pictures that were taken on the day.

2007 D73 National Conference

Club Meeting #254 - 26th April 2007

With our young talented toastmasters coming up through the ranks, this time we had Jennifer to be the toast mistress of our 254th club meeting. Well done Jennifer, who quickly reorganised the meeting and ensured our first time visitors understood what each of the roles were about.

We had 6 visitors attend our meeting, where both Brendan and Terry took the next step and signed up to become a member. Well done guys and we will be in touch with you shortly to scheduel you into the agenda.

Our Table Topics was run by Michael, who gave us a unique taste of Australian sport, running a theme of sport sledging. Quite a topical and contraversial subject with lots of great responses. Well done Michael for giving us something a little different and challenging us in a new way, which is what its all about.

Manual speechs were given by both Manel and Claudia which were a delight to listen to. Such powerful and well crafted speechs. A special congradulations also goes out to Claudia who at last after a number of years has completed her 10th speech and is now a Competent Communicator.

This is also an extra special meeting where Business Talk Toastmasters has now completed all of the requirements to be recognised as a Select Distinguished Club. This is a significant achievement and is only achieved by a select number of clubs in the Metro Division. Well done business talk toasties for making this possible.

Claudia becomes Competent Communicator

Congradulations and well done Claudia on such a persistant effort. This is what Toastmasters is all about. You have given us some memorable speeches and look forward to you progressing through the advanced manuals.

The speeches Claudia gave to achieve this milestone were.

1. 1995-05-25 - Life Experiences
2. 1996-07-25 - To Be Free
3. 1997-08-28 - Famous, for 15 Minutes
4. 1998-04-23 - I've Now Got the Fever
5. 1998-08-13 - Should Junk/Fast Fodds be Banished from our Lives?
6. 1998-11-12 - Let's Party
7. 2000-03-09 - If I had my Life to Live Over Again
8. 2000-09-28 - Music is Good Medicine
9. 2006-11-09 - The Joys of Commuting
10. 2007-04-26 - Let's Begin to Really Listen