Waterloo Bay Toastmasters

In a shock verdict, Santa was cleared of all charges in his recent trial at Waterlooo Bay Toastmasters. Despite highly charged testimony from a number of witnesses and an admission from Santa that he did all the things he had been accused off: entering a house, damaging a roof, drinking Guinness and eating pies and ridiculing Rudolph, the jury took less than a minute to return the verdict of “not guilty”.

The second Waterloo Bay Toastmasters Speechcraft course, held in Wynnum, Brisbane in 2011 was a great success. Five brave people entertained, inspired, enthralled, motivated and surprised us with their ability, enthusiasm and breadth of topics.

Bonnie Black and Karina Taylor share their recollections of the Speechcraft course in the videos below.

The 2011-2012 executive of Waterloo Bay Toastmasters have been sworn in and will take over the leadership of the club from 1 July 2011.

President – Mary Wilson CTM
Vice President Education – Marie Catlow ACB, CL
Vice President Membership – Marco Meyer
Vice President Public Relations – Liz Osborne
Treasurer – Bruce Collins
Secretary – Ruth Holliday
Segeant at Arms – Chris Graham

The executive will be assisted by Immediate Past President Andrew Hansen CTM, CL.

Waterloo Bay Toastmasters will be holding a Speechcraft course in May and June of 2011. The Speechcraft course is a high speed introduction to the Toastmasters program and is aimed at anyone who wants to fast-track their public speaking development.

Improved communication skills can not only help you when speaking to groups, small or large, but will also help in your day to day conversations, with family, friends and colleagues.

The course is held over eight weeks, starting on 3rd May and ending on 21st July. The venue is Wynnum Manly Leagues Club, Wondall Road, Wynnum West.

Your investment: $165. This gives you eight weeks of training, participation and fun, all course material, dinner at the final “Graduation” session.

And, if you choose to join Waterloo Bay Toastmasters after you have completed the course we will waive the joining fee of $45.

To find out more about what Speechcraft can do for you, download an information sheet and call Mary Wilson on 07 3396 1694.

The debut of Strictly Speaking on ABC last night is sure to pique a lot of people’s interest in improving their public speaking skills. This is an excellent opportunity for Toastmasters acrosss Australia to indulge in some cross promotion.

If friends, famliy or workmates haven’t seen the show direct them to http://www.abc.net.au/tv/strictlyspeaking/ to view it online.

Whether it’s to present your case at the school P & F committee, propose a toast at a wedding or to run for political office, Toastmasters can teach you all the skills you need to be a polished public speaker.

The Toastmasters Area 20 conference will be held on Sunday 3rd October 2010. The venue is Wynnum Manly Leagues Club, Manly West, in the beautiful Brisbane Bayside.

The conference is an opportunity to catch up with Toastmasters from Redlands, Capalaba, Logan Morning Stars, Riverside (Bulimba), Waterloo Bay (Wynnum/Manly) and the newly formed advance club, Speak N Jest (Rochedale).

The main agenda items are the speech contests. Representatives from each club will vie for the honour of representing Area 20 at the Eastern Division Conference to be held in February/March of 2011.  The winner of the International Speech Contest at this conference has the potential to travel to the International conference to represent District 69 in the World Championship of Public Speaking. This prestigious annual event was won last year by Mark Hunter, a Toastmaster from District 69.

Bookings are essential, confirm your place with your club or contact the Area 20 Governor, Alana Beale, directly on 0409 150 948.

I’ve been a member of Toastmasters for five years and I’ve heard the term High Performance Leadership a number of times. But, I’ve never asked anyone what it was or how to complete the program. The Toastmasters material I have refers to the program but doesn’t include details on what it entails.

Now that my next leadership award requires me to complete this program, I decided to find out more about it. The Toastmasters International website doesn’t provide any information, (at least none that I could find) but a Google search on “What is the high performance leadership program in Toastmasters” took me to this helpful explanation on the Toastmasters District 70 website.

L-R: Mary Wilson, Chris Graham, Andrew Hansen, Robyn Hargreaves, Diarmuid Deans, Marie Catlow

We are now in the new Toastmasters year and with the changeover we welcome a new club executive. The President for this year is Andrew Hansen CTM CL. Andrew has been a member of Waterloo Bay Toastmasters since 2001 and brings a wealth of experience to the job.

Assisting Andrew in the role of Vice President Education is Marie Catlow ACB CL. Marie, a retired schoolteacher and now a part time educator for the Australian Heart Foundation, has plenty of new and interesting ideas to keep the club programs interesting while helping members achieve their educational and leadership goals.

Also on the executive this year are:

Robyn Hargreaves CC – Vice President Membership
Diarmuid Deans ACB CL – Vice President Public Relations & Treasurer
Mary Wilson CC – Secretary
Chris Graham – Sergeant at Arms

The Toastmasters District 69 Magazine, Corroboree, is now available online.

The latest edition of the magazine features:

• DG‘s Message
• From the Lieutenant Governors
• Convention Report
• Contest Results
• Convenor’s View
• March to May Madness
• Beat the Clock
• Partners under the Southern Cross
• Virtual Brand Portal
• Toastmasters Leadership Institute
• The History Page
• Evaluation – Challenge to change
• What’s been happening in Area 11
• Toastmasters encourage students to read
• Move over John and Yoko
• District Executive Team 2010-2011
• Pictures from Convention

I am often asked what happens at our meeting, this video explains it all in less than 3 minutes.