Monday’s meeting in Innisfail saw two members receive their CC and CL. CC – Competent Communicator is the award you are given when you have completed the first ten public speaking assignments. By this stage you are quite an accomplished speaker and it is a major achievement. The recipient this time was Sheridan. The CL [...]
It is the food that makes or breaks a conference – and the coffee. They both made this one – area 32 conference held at the Conservatorium in Innisfail. And the dots over the i’s were the peach blossoms. That is not to say that the speeches were bad – on the contrary – a [...]
The club held it’s first two speech contests last Monday. Firstly the “International” which is a more serious speech that should have a clear message to act upon. Topics this time were on the history of our monetary system, establishing good habits and about speaking out on religion, politics and sex. The second contest was “Table topics”. [...]
Each year Toastmasters conduct speaking competitions. They start at club level and winners move up. The final stage is in the USA. The Innisfail club has its “International” and “Table topics” contests on the 12th of September and the “Humorous” and “Evaluation” contest on the 26th of September. All club members take part either as [...]
The Innisfail club keeps growing. At tonight’s meeting another three people joined which is great to see as we lost some members at the end of last year. We also had two visitors from Victoria, one from Tasmania and one from Sweden. Speeches were on varied topics with Ellen having made a motorbike trip to [...]
The club lost a few member at the end of last year as people move away or feel they have gained enough confidence from their Toastmasters’ journey, but others come. At the meeting on March 14th three new members joined the club. It is interesting to see how they average age of members is dropping [...]
February 14 saw the start of 2011 to the Innisfail Toastmasters club. It was Valentine’s Day and we had intended a program with that theme but then Cyclone Yasi struck and even though Innisfail was largely spared, our president who works for the council had to work night and day. After some discussions we decided [...]
Innisfail loves having guests come to meetings and last week we were treated to the presence of Connie’s grandson Jack and Sharon Skewes. Sharon dared to enter the Great Debate over stem cell research and gave a speech providing some very interesting material about some of the issues she has been researching. Lorraine Van B [...]
Each Toastmasters Club is run by an executive committee of 7 members who all take on a different role to ensure the Club runs efficiently and effectively. It is also another way that Toastmasters provides personal development through experiential learning because the undertaking of each position requires certain communication and leadership skills that its encumbant officer [...]
Innisfail Toastmasters warmly welcomes Peter Cochrane and Sue Music to the Club as members even if we now know that Peter’s wish to join comes from his desire to mix with other twisted minds. Tonight’s meeting saw a stirling performance from Loretta, fulfilling her new role as Sergeant at Arms as well as Toastmaster of the Evening ably assisted [...]