Toastmaster club. District 112, New Zealand. Area M2. Club 7453. Parnell, Auckland
Toast of Broadway Toastmasters club had our annual Humourous speech contest where our members can compete for the privilege of representing our club at the Area speech contest. The contest was run by our newest member Louise. Despite the fact that Louise had never attended a Toastmasters contest before, she ran the entirely thing so smoothly, ... read more.
Toast of Broadway had our first two contests for the Toastmasters year. We began our meeting with the Evaluation contest. Contest chair Xiang ran a smooth contest especially considering it was her first time being a contest chair. Our test speaker Ivo provided us with a wonderful speech titled ‘Teamwork makes the dream work’ that ... read more.
We spiced up our usual Toastmasters meeting format with a reverse meeting. This was Toastmaster of the evening Danielle’s idea and overall it went very well! As the title of the meeting suggests, a reverse meeting has the order of everything done backwards. We started with the President ‘Closing’ the meeting, followed by the General ... read more.
Time flew by as each speaker presented their speech. Rishant brought us his perception of leadership – focusing on what he could learn from to change his leadership style. Jafar’s speech focused on how one can make money. His humour livened up the room. To quote “The person who says money doesn’t bring happiness hasn’t ... read more.
30th of July brought us a very thought provoking meeting at Toast of Broadway. Jafar spoke about the meaningfulness of life. Katie made us question the use of Artificial Intelligence, and how fast it is entering our lives. Sota spoke about a young Japanese Soft-Ball talent who has made waves in the US. Rishant presented ... read more.
Our recent meeting on 18th June was a very visual one! Both Damian and Jon were presenting their Competent Communicator speech number 8 – ‘Get comfortable with visual aids’. Jafar and Rishant were using descriptive and emotive language so that we could all imagine and feel exactly what they were talking about. Table topics master ... read more.
It was a rainy night for our Auckland Toastmasters club last night, but our members and guests decided to brave the rain and make it to our meeting. Good thing too, because it turned out to be an interesting and fun night. We had four fantastic speeches from Reuben, George, Yuan, and Pablo, three of ... read more.
The Toast of Broadway team (as well as our guests) were lucky enough to listen to thought provoking speeches that covered a wide range of topics, from moving to a vegetarian diet, moving on a skateboard, to moving to Mars! Yuan did an amazing job running Table Topics for the first time, asking us some ... read more.
Last night we had a great meeting with some of our newer members doing roles for the first time. Both Katie and Rishant performed their icebreaker speeches, and did an amazing job too, we’re all looking forward to seeing what other interesting speeches that these two have in store for us. Before our prepared speeches, ... read more.
We’ve had our third meeting for 2018, and the Toast of Broadway family are back into the swing of things! Our newer members are having a lot of chances to grown their speaking and leadership skills, with Sota performing the role of Timer for the first time, Jafar running a very smooth meeting with his ... read more.