The London Speaker

London Toastmasters Educational Awards June 2010

Posted by Dorothea Stuart

A record breaking month and record breaking year as London Division B Toastmasters achieve the highest number of educational awards in our history! 

Particular congratulations go to our newest Distinguished Toastmasters: Liz Hobbs of Tube Talk and Carol West of London Corinthians and Excalibur Speakers.  We are very proud of you - for developing your speaking and leadership skills and also helping others as mentors, club committee members, sponsors of new clubs etc.

Congratulations to everyone else who achieved an award this month and making 2009/2010 a year to remember!

***Distinguished Toastmaster***

Liz Hobbs. Tube Talk. Area 34

Carol West. London Corinthians. Area 6

Competent Communicator

Fredrik Adams. Berkeley Square. Area 45

Hilary Briggs. St Paul's Speakers. Area 33

Philip Carr. Grosvenor Square Speakers. Area 45

Robert Cole. Broadgate Speakers. Area 33

Shelley Des Forges. NZICA Bank Speakers. Area 33

Jay Dignan. Early Bird Speakers. Area 45

Kassim El Maawiy. Tube Talk. Area 34

Rona Harding. Northern Lights. Area 47

Greg Healey. Trojans Speakers. Area 29

David Healy. Northern Lights. Area 47

Simon Hull. Broadgate Speakers. Area 33

Adekunle Ibirronke. Broadgate Speakers. Area 33

Felix Kaufmann. MLP! London Bridge Speakers. Area 33

Miriam Knibbe. London Cardinals. Area 6

Margaret Kramarz. London Corinthians. Area 6

Keren Learner. London Communicators. Area 47

Sheri Lim. London Communicators. Area 47

Diana Lowe. St Paul's Speakers. Area 33

Zhenni Ma. MLP! London Bridge Speakers. Area 33

Jennifer MacKay. Northern Lights. Area 47

Lily Miranda. Broadgate Speakers. Area 33

Thomas Ovington. London Olympians. Area6

Jonathan Mueller. Early Bird Speakers. Area 45

Dele Ogun. Early Bird Speakers. Area 45

Justin Patten. Early Bird Speakers. Area 45

Matthew Pearlman. London Corinthians. Area 6

Caitriona Sheehan. MLP! London Bridge Speakers. Area 33

Shane Snow. LBS Public Speaking Club. Area 34

Jorgen Sundberg. Grosvenor Square Speakers. Area 45

Paul Sylva. NZICA Bank Speakers. Area 33

Caroline Watson. London Cardinals. Area 6

Carrick Whitney. London Olympians. Area 6

Saskia Wiriadidjaja. Citi Criers. Area 31

Advanced Communicator Bronze

Irene Bradshaw. Berkeley Square. Area 47

Marie Dobbin. WiBF-City. Area 47

Wayde Duncan-Smith. Early Bird Speakers. Area 45

Gary Edwards. London Olympians. Area 6

Simone Hauser. London Communicators. Area 47

David T Jones. Holborn Speakers. Area 34

Jane Liburd. Tube Talk. Area 34

Rory Marriott. Canary Wharf Communicators. Area 31

Jacqueline Purcell. Grosvenor Square Speakers. Area 45

Euphemia Redwood-Sawyer. Tube Talk. Area 34

Richard Stacey. Early Bird Speakers. Area 45

Nicholas Vandy. Canary Wharf Communicators. Area 31

Amanda Warwick. London Athenians. Area 29

Ewan Wong. MLP London Bridge Speakers. Area 33

Advanced Communicator Gold

Andrew Klimaytys. Riverside Communicators. Area 29

Competent Leader

Christopher Bell. Northern Lights. Area 47

Jenny Betts. Riverside Communicators. Area 29

Celia Bradley. WIBF. Area 31

Catherine Desson. City Criers. Area 31

Rozina Didarali. Tube Talk. Area 34

Pemma Fox. London Corinthians. Area 6

Sue Kennedy. Riverside Communicators. Area 29

Carlos Johnson. Broadgate Speakers. Area 33

Jan Michalski. Polish Your Polish. Area 6

Michal Misztal. Polish Your Polish. Area 6

Euphemia Redwood-Sawyer. Tube Talk. Area 34

Greg Ros. St Paul's Speakers. Area 33

Joann Walsh. London Olympians. Area 6

Advanced Leader Bronze

Catherine Desson. Citi Criers. Area 31

Joann Walsh. St Paul's Speakers. Area 33

Advanced Leader Silver

Liz Hobbs. Tube Talk. Area 34

Carol West. London Corinthians. Area 6

Leadership Excellence Award

Carol West. Excalibur Speakers.  Area 47

Educational Awards	Last Year 2008/09	June 2010	Division B year to date
Competent Communicator	65	33	73
Adv Comm Bronze	12	14	18
Adv Comm Silver	6	-	2
Adv Comm Gold	3	1	3
Competent Leader	28	12	27
Adv Leader Bronze	8	3	12
Adv Leader Silver	2	2	6
Leadership Excellence	4	1	5
Distinguished Toastmaster(DTM)	1	2	7
Total	129	68	153

London Communicators: President's Distinguished Club

From David Lennon, London Communicators

Three presidents of London Communicators smiling happily at the final meeting of the year 2009-2010 as their club achieved President's Distinguished Club ribbon - the highest honour for a Toastmasters club.

Left to Right: Julie Holness Incoming 2010-2011 President, David Lennon outgoing 2009-2010 President and Steve Maguire Immediate past President 2008-2009.

Congratulations to London Communicators' committee and members.

Join us for our celebration dinner on Friday 14th July (and/or an afternoon of golf). Click here for more info.

London Toastmasters events week commencing 5 July 2010

We have a variety of public speaking and leadership events for Toastmasters members and guests in the coming week.  Hope to see you at one of them!

Tuesday 6 July:  7pm  Socrates Cup.  London Athenians and West London Speakers hold their annual debate and table topics contest.  Visitors Welcome at The Hop Poles, 17-19 King Street, Hammersmith, W6 9HR (close to Hammersmith Underground station)

Wednesday 7 July: 6.45pm -9pm  Founder of Speakersbank Sue Warner, DTM and Liz Hobbs, DTM led a High Performance Leadership Workshop.  Held at The Spectator near St Paul's. Read more below.  Please join us!  Full info click here.

Thursday 8 July: 6.30pm Steve Maguire leads a demonstration meeting for a potential new club in the City. Read more below.

And of course, there are plently of clubs holding meetings this week (see the club meeting calender at the top of the page).  Vistors are always welcome.

Learning from the Workshop Wizards

From Kate McNeilly, Excalibur Speakers

London Cardinals held their first workshop in 18 months on Monday, 14 June 2010 and devoted the evening to 4 subjects, 30 mins each. I wanted to experience something different, in a different club, so I went along to check it out. Merlin, Gandalf and Dumbledore had nothing on our Toastmaster wizards (and witch?) that night! It was a very entertaining and educational evening.

1. TABLE TOPICS - first to wave her wand was Gilly Cutts, DTM, a Toastmaster since 1994. She shared the following 10 top tips on How to Approach Challenging Table Topics with Creativity and Confidence:

• Don't panic
• Take your time – deep breath, walk slowly to front & go with first thought that comes to mind.
• Three of the Best – eg, beginning / middle / end; alliterations, etc.
• It’s for You – allow your imagination to explore different Table Topics. 
• Be prepared - mentally - to have a go.
• Six of the Best – what, where, who, when, how and why.
• Your Blank Page – eg, if you are serious by nature, ham it up, play around. TM is place to experiment, no one will ridicule you
• Your Personal Story – people are hungry to know more.
• Box of Tricks – you can buy Table Topics cards from Toastmasters International.
• Have Fun!

Of course there was a Table Topics session to allow others to be wizards! The audience had fun watching three lucky people who were asked to speak in a style not their own, using - in turn - Passion (ie, Your Blank Page), Six of the Best and Power of Three.

2. MEMORY – Do you envy those members who can give a talk or evaluation without notes? Me too. Paul Walsh, President, Dale Carnegie instructor and upcoming Area 6 Governor generously shared and demonstrated practical tips to improve memory. He taught us tools to remember names and numbers for lists which have all sorts of uses. It is a process. The belief that you can do it is very important. And so is practice.

3. HOW TO DEAL WITH CONFLICT – Andrew Chuks deftly demonstrated how to turn conflict into resolution in all relationships by using just 3 strategies for: (a) Calmness; (b) courage; and (c) communication (not surprisingly, the most important). You had to be there to experience the effect. Next best thing is to get Andrew to conduct a workshop at your club.

4. LOVE AT WORK – Nigel Cutts wanted us all to win and succeed because the great thing about winners is that they help others and in that way they become great leaders - something much needed in Toastmasters and in life. Several excellent stories (never knew Nigel was a water skier) to show that preparation leads to opportunities.

What a wonderful way to spend an evening at Toastmasters in a high-learning environment with skilled people facilitating appropriate subjects.

Is this something that your club could do some time to meet the educational goals of your club and members for the benefit of all?