The mind boggles

Three awards earned during one meeting! This is how it works: Ross gave his 10th speech, achieving his well-deserved Competent Communicator award! Joanna, whose CC certificate finally arrived in the mail, already gave her first advanced speech, the speech to inform!

Endless Opportunities

A packed schedule, new guests and participation from everyone, made last night’s meeting a pleasure to attend! Two experienced speakers, Andy and Advait delivered prepared speeches from advanced manuals. Advait’s hilarious “after-dinner” speech, titled The Last Supper, was highly entertaining and full of unique observations and insights about Easter and its traditions. Andy’s sales training speech was informative and as always, Andy made sure to make his presentation interactive, so that everyone could be involved.

Talking on the phone and laughing out loud!

How to communicate effectively over the phone? In a virtual educational, British public speaking coach Caroline Goyder pointed out four strategies inspired from radio presenters, that help you sound clear, concise and energised.

Number 1 in New Zealand!

Seven Competent Communicators, three Competent Leaders, one Advanced Communicator Bronze and one Advanced Leader Bronze: that is the impressive list of awards from Toastmasters International that our members have already achieved during the past seven months of this Toastmasters year. There are around 30 Toastmasters Clubs in Christchurch and over 250 in New Zealand. With the proud record of twelve educational achievements so far, U-CAN-SPEAK is the uncontested club number one on the list. This result can be seen as further proof of the great motivation of our members, the supportive learning environment and the vast educational opportunities that the club has to offer. And even more is yet to come!

A Sensational Educational & Awards, Awards, Awards

Why evaluate? Who benefits? How to evaluate? And when? These are the core questions our absolutely awesome Assistant Division Governors Rob and Mark raised and which members of the U-CAN-SPEAK Club along with four enthusiastic guests found compelling answers to.

Assistant Division Governor Mark delivered an outstanding educational on effective evaluation techniques.

Assistant Division Governor Rob delivered an outstanding educational on effective evaluation techniques.

Dwayne, Club President Jess, Timm and Steph, the U-CAN-SPEAK Toastmasters of the Year.

Jono presents Dwayne’s CL certificate.

U-CAN-SPEAK: A Unique Success Story

The U-CAN-SPEAK Club is looking back to an extremely successful year:

Akshay, VP Public Relations, highlighted the very successful promotion of the club on campus during clubs’ days and open nights. As Dwayne detailed in his membership report, with gaining 22 new members in the current year, U-CAN-SPEAK is the third most attractive Toastmasters club to new members in all of New Zealand! The club also succeeded with increasing the student proportion among its members significantly. VP Education Timm shared the great news that of all 300 Toastmasters clubs in the country, the U-CAN-SPEAK Club belongs to the top 10 best performing Toastmasters clubs, having earned the highest possible recognition President’s Distinguished Club after only 10 months!