International Speech and Evaluation Contest - Club Level

Lingo Advanced Communicators had their International Speech and Evaluation Contest - Club Level yesterday, March 7th. We had the honour of having Cherry Cheung as our Chief Judge also our Judges, Betty, Barry, and Renee. It was a well organized contest with our Contest Chair and Toastmaster Rick, Sgt-at-arms Rhys and Tolu. Last but not least, our timer Peter and ballot counter Kerrianne. We had 2 contestants for International Speech and 4 Contestants for Evaluation Contest. Thank you to Peter Wang for being our Test Speaker in the Evaluation Contest!

Our Winner for International Speech contest was Edith Baraniecki and for Evaluation Contest was Melanie Kruger. Both Contestants will advance to our Area 51 Contest which will be held on Thursday March 23 at 7:00pm. Please come cheer for us as these two finalist brings back the victory award in the Area level!!

Thanks again to all attended!

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!