Lingo Advanced Communicators Meeting - February 21, 2017

Our regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at our new location

The theme for this meeting will include some of the workshop item that we learned on "Your speaking Voice" that Robin presented on Feb 7th. Toastmaster for this meeting is Rick Lebeuf, DTM.  Please come and check out our meeting.  See what you had missed at the workshop, you may be benefit from it for the upcoming Evaulation contest!

Contact us if you are planning to attend.

We look forward to seeing you!

Lingo Workshop: Using a Rating Form to Profile the Speaking Voice

The purpose of this workshop is to become familiar with a form in the Toastmasters manual, ‘Your Speaking Voice’ This one-page form is included in the manual to help Toastmaster members analyze basic characteristics of their voice.

Robin did an excellent workshop on going through each speech profile and showing examples of famous celebrities speeches and discussion with the group.  By becoming familiar with the form, participants should develop more confidence rating a person’s speaking voice.  Those attended the workshop enjoyed it and took home a lot of valuable points.  It definitely will be useful for the upcoming International Speech and Evaluation contest.

We will incorporate some of the item we learned from the workshop at our upcoming regular meeting.  Please come and check us out!

What happened at our Last Meeting? "What Money Cannot Buy"

Our last meeting was on Tueaday, Jan 17th.

We met at Edith's house since our meeting space (Rivebend Library) was unavailable.
We had one guest: Selena.  It was a nice and cozy meeting. Edith baked a Rubarb cake for us with a lot of other snacks.

Meeting theme was "what money cannot buy"

There was a lot of stuff that money can't buy.  Majority of our members feel that Health is the most important one!  Edith was our Toastmaster for this meeting.

We had our Business Meeting where we discuss on the venues that we are thinking of meeting and we voted on the Riverbend Retirement Community by Rivera. This will be the location we will meet from now on and we are ecstatic that we finally have a permanent place to meet without moving around town!

We had two speeches from Kerrianne and Melanie.

Kerrianne was presenting from her HPL manual.  She did her HPL on her term as an Area Director.  She wanted to be able to provide support to her clubs and be resourceful to them.  Her clubs are lucky to have her as their Area Director.

Melanie was presenting from the Storytelling Advanced Manual.  She did her story on a book called "  Living with a Black Dog:  His Name is Depression" by Matthew Johnstone.  She even have props.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiCrniLQGYc

It was a great meeting, looking forward to our upcoming workshop presented by Robin on Your Speaking Voice!

We've Moved!!

Our New Meeting Location starting Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017 will be at

Riverbend Retirement Living by Revera, 

(103 Rabbit Hill Rd, Edmonton, AB T6R 2V3)

Melange Room

Workshop:   Using a Rating Form to Profile the Speaking Voice

Presented by Robin Changarathil, CC

The purpose of this workshop is to become familiar with a form in the Toastmasters manual, ‘Your Speaking Voice’. 

This one-page form is included in the manual to help Toastmaster members analyze basic characteristics of their voice.

The workshop will go over the form by taking the perspective of an evaluator who has been assigned the task of rating another member’s voice during a Toastmasters club meeting. 

By becoming familiar with the form, participants should develop more confidence rating a person’s speaking voice.

Please Note: New Meeting location!

Date: Tuesday February 7, 2017

Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:  Riverbend Retirement Living by revera, in the Melange Room

Please RSVP to EventBrite at  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-a-rating-form-to-profile-the-speaking-voice-tickets-31514337231

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year

Lingo Advanced Communicators are looking forward for a year of challenges!
As TI's Photo suggested, we will be having our Executive Meeting on Monday, January 9th to discuss our plan for this year!  Here is an article from TI that I thought would be perfect to be posted at the beginning of the year!

Lets all set our goals too, both Toastmasters related, Work related, or personal related!!

How to Plan for a Successful Year

Learn the Keys to Effective Goal Setting

Now that the New Year is here, it is the perfect time to set goals for your club or district. If you’ve had difficulty achieving membership or other goals in the past, maybe it was because you tried to accomplish too much at once and were overwhelmed. This year, use these goal-setting tips, and map out a successful step-by-step plan you can easily follow:

1. Focus on one or two main goals – Choose just one or two larger goals to pursue this year. This can be difficult, but narrowing your focus is essential and will allow you to better concentrate on whichever goal(s) you choose.
   
2. Create subgoals – After you’ve settled on your main goal(s) for the year, it’s time to break it down into monthly subgoals to make the larger objective more manageable. Think of the most important tasks you need to accomplish to reach your main goal, and assign those tasks to each month of the year. Segmenting the process this way will help you visualize what you need to do every month to stay on track.
   
3. Create microgoals – Make your monthly goals more manageable by breaking them into four microgoals, which can be thought of as weekly goals. This will help you avoid the temptation to procrastinate and leave all your subgoal duties for the end of each month. You can also segment your weekly microgoals into daily tasks so that you’ll know each day what you need to do to stay on schedule.

Remember, the key to goal setting is staying organized. Take the time to understand what you need to do every month, week and day this year in order to reach your larger goals, and then get started. Good luck!

Lingo TM Annual Holiday Party!!

Lingo Advanced Communicators had their Annual Holiday Party last Tuesday, Dec 6 at Sandman Signature Hotel which we were served with Chop Menu item.  The room was spacious and private which was perfect for us to host our dinner party.  We had a great attendance and guests this evening despite the cold weather outside!

Our Division Governor, Dave Cartledge was also present.  He drove all the way from Red Deer to attend our celebration.   He also presented the Advanced Communicator Bronze award to Melanie!  Congrats to Melanie!!! and  Thank you Dave for being there with us!!

We started the party with Seann Haver and Melanie Kruger's Talent show, the person can either

1. Sing Christmas Songs
2. Tell Christmas Stories
3. Tell Christmas Jokes

We really do have talented members singing and telling Christmas stories which were quite enjoyable and touching.  Thanks to everyone, I did capture all the clips which I will post later on in this article.  This was very well received and a great way of entertainment before dinner!

Dinner was delicious! Really good food from Chop!


Following Dinner, we had Table Topics.  How can a Toastmasters event without Table Topics!
Robin Changarathil was our Table Topic Master, he came out with good holiday questions for our members.  We all voted for the best Table Topic speaker!

Before we announced the winners for both the Best Talent Member and Best Table Topic speaker, we had our President Edith Baraniecki to send her greetings and announcements.

The winner for the best Talent show goes to Robin Changarathil, Will have to listen to his winning Christmas story when he was in Korea.

The winner for the best Table Topics goes to Peter Kolotyluk who were asked a question whether we should be using Merry Christmas vs other way of greeting such as Season's Greetings.  Peter, the usual, him, just "don't care".

Congrats to both of you!

Peter ended with a lovely dance with our hostess at the hotel.. beautiful! 

Thanks and Wish everyone a Happy Holidays!  See you in the New Year!

Please stay tune for more photos and videos to be posted here!