Comfortably Speaking Club's Open House Event on September 7,2013

Media Contact:

Nadia Qasmieh

905-782-8840

vppr-1120086@toastmastersclubs.org

August 12, 2013

Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters Hosts Open House

Event is free to the public

Mississauga, ON – Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters (http://cst.toastmastersclubs.org/) invites residents to its open house to meet members and hear them talk about how to become a comfortable public speaker and an effective leader. “If you’re looking to improve your public speaking and leadership skills in a fun and positive environment, Toastmasters International is the answer,” says Odecca Ordonez, Club President of Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters. “Our club executives are here to help members with their journey

in Toastmasters.” After a brief meet-and-greet period, members and guests will enjoy a regular Toastmasters meeting that will include prepared speeches, Table Topics (impromptu speeches) and evaluations. Members will share their experience in Toastmasters and how the club has helped them achieve their personal and professional goals. Finger foods and refreshments will be served. “Members receive verbal and written feedback to learn about their areas of strengths and where they can improve,” says Rafiq Qutub, Vice President Education of Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters. “Toastmasters has helped me achieve my goals of speaking to large groups of people and becoming a

better meeting organizer and leader at work.” 

Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters Open House

Date: September 7, 2013

Location: Mississauga Central Library, Room CL 2

Time: 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.

For more information, email Vice President Public Relations Nadia Qasmieh at

vppr-1120086@toastmastersclubs.org

Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters meets every first and third Saturday of the month from 9:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in Room CL 2 at Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe Road West, L5B 3Y3. For more information about this event and the club, please visit http://cst.toastmastersclubs.org/.

About District 86
District 86 comprises more than 200 corporate and community clubs in Ontario. To learn more about District 86, please visit http://toastmasters86.org/

About Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. Founded in October 1924, the organization currently has more than 280,000 members in 13,500-plus clubs in 116 countries. Each week, Toastmasters helps more than a quarter million people of every ethnicity, education level and profession build their competence in communication so they can gain the confidence to lead others. For information about local Toastmasters clubs, please visit www.toastmasters.org. Follow @Toastmasters International on Twitter.

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Civic Holiday Meeting With Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters Club

It was, indeed, an exciting and special day yesterday in our club meeting because we had fun with our club members and with more than 10 special guests from College Boreal. Thank you to Madam Sahar for bringing all your amazing students!

Our amazing VP of Education, Raf Qutub, suggested for us to have a theme that talks about Civic Holiday. Since I was the chair yesterday, I shared great facts about Civic Holiday that it is celebrated on the first Monday of August. It is known by many names in different provinces like Regatta Day in Newfoundland, Saskatchewan day in SK, British Columbia Day in BC, Natal Day in Nova Scotia and PEI, Simcoe Day in Toronto, Colonel By Day in Ottawa and Joseph Brant day in Burlington, ON and the list goes on and on.

Our humorist, Jason, provided us an interesting presentation on how other countries celebrate their August Long Weekend. For example, Spain celebrates La Tomatina, a food-fight festival where  participants throw tomatoes, held on the last Wednesday of August. 

During our Educational Session, our beloved guests and new members were able to hear 2 great speakers in our club (Nikita and Raf). Great information about Toastmasters International was shared by Raf and Nikita told us his personal and original story about his encounter with an old lady who gave him a bread when he was in Russia. The speeches were very informative and inspirational.

Great evaluation was given to the speakers by our club mentor Jocelyn Vezina. Our General Evaluator, Jinky, did a great job for evaluating our meeting as well as for calling all the reports at the end of the meeting. 

But before I will end this blog, our Table Topics session was an interesting one (as always) especially if the Table Topic Master is Nikita. Some topics were creepy (yeah, creepy but fun!), "out-of-this-world", and very creative. As a matter of fact, our guests enjoyed the topics and they seriously answered Nikita with their eyes rolling (Just kidding!).

For the business session, I covered 3 important things. These are:

1. Room Change: August 17-December 7, 2013 meeting is going to be in Room CL-2
2. Open House: September 7, 2013 (Please don't forget to invite your friends on this event. Spread the news, we are here to help you improve your communication and leadership skills)
   
3. Speech Contest (Humorous and Table Topics): We are still in need of contestants. In case you are interested, please send me an email me at president-1120086@toastmastersclubs.org.

Overall, we had fun and enjoyed every session of the meeting. Thank you to all our amazing club members and to all our guests for spending your Saturday with us. Please don't forget that our next meeting is on August 17,2013 from 9:15am-11:15am at Mississauga Central Library's Room CL2.

Important:

To all Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters members who would like to sign up for roles, please click this link.

Progress and Upcoming Events

Yesterday, our President and VP Education presented the club with Toastmasters Achievement Charts for the Competent Communication (CC) and Leadership (CL) tracks.

(Example of a Competent Leadership Achievement Chart)

This is a great way for our members to map out their progress and be proud of their accomplishments. It also motivates each member to plan ahead by coming up with a tentative schedule to complete their CC and CL manuals.

If you are actively planning the completion of your CL, we have a number of events coming up. You can take part in organizing them and, by doing so, a credit will go towards your CL.

Below is a list of events and possible activities to take part in. If you are interested in chairing a project or in helping out, don’t hesitate to contact me for a list of vacant roles.

1. Open House – Our Open House will be held on September 7, 2013. It will be a potluck event for our members and guests. This is an amazing social event that also includes inspirational speeches from our members.

2. Club Contest – Our Club Contest (Humour and Table Topics) will be held on September 21, 2013. Let us know if you want to compete (if you haven’t already)!

3. Newsletters – You can serve as a club newsletter editor for one of four newsletters to come out on the following dates:

·         October 5, 2013

·         December 7, 2013

·         March 8, 2014

·         June 7, 2014

4. Befriending a guest – You can do so by welcoming a guest and discussing his/her goals and concerns. You want to also make yourself available to the guest outside of the club meeting to continue discussions and to encourage them to attend another meeting or join the club.

5. Speakers’ Bureau – If you have an organization or issue you’re passionate about, let us know. This is a great way to gain public speaking experience outside our club. 

Nadia Qasmieh

VP Public Relations 2013-2014

Comfortably Speaking Toastmasters Club