Toastmaster Prateek hosted an energetic meeting with a team to assist him during the meeting. Eleanor B was timekeeper, Fahad was harkmaster, Kirsten was table topics master and Rob was Sergeant at Arms. Karen took on the role as grammarian, enlisting “Rapturous” as word of the day, which in turn encouraged the audience to give rapturous applauses throughout the meeting.
Florian’s speech was first and taken from the High Performance Leadership Manual. Florian reflected on his three years at Toastmasters; how he has overcome many of his limiting beliefs and fears, learning valuable leadership skills on his journey. Florian described to the audience the lessons he had learnt from setting up London Victorians which as a result has prepared him in the launch of his own business endeavour.
Next was Tattiana who delivered her icebreaker speech ‘Game of Life’. When describing the many vocations she has undertaken throughout her life, Tattiana explained to the audience the importance of a smile. She employed the use of metaphors relating her view of life to some aspects of playing a computer game. This technique helped her describe to the audience how she felt during the different “modes” she has experienced; from modelling, to research engineer.
Annabel’s nostalgic speech described to the audience about her trips home to Scotland, how many of her masterplans are conceived in the solace of her home environment. Annabel employed metaphors such as “like honey and lemon”, trips home are “soothing to the soul” and reciting quotes from Maya Angelou and Charles Dickens to fully describe to the audience her hometown landscape and family life.
At London Victorians we always welcome guests, and it was our pleasure to host Saba who is a member of a Toastmaster club in the Netherlands. Saba delivered an inspirational speech to London Victorians. He imparted three golden rules he lives by; passion over tradition, happiness over norms, and people over prejudice. An energetic and dynamic speech which even featured the Macareena song!
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