Exciting meeting at HOD Speakers this week. First time Toastmaster of the Evening, Paschorina Morty, thoroughly prepared and researched, subtly and confidently in charge and in control, creating a solid space of formality, in which the creative energy, irreverent fun and always inspiring variety of speeches had room to blossom.

An ice-breaker from Dipesh Shah
An informative guide to Investing like a Pro from Manish Kataria
A speech choreographed to music from me (David Phelops)

First-time guest, Nick won Best Table Topics Continue reading “Meeting report from the meeting on June 4”

The new world champion of public speaking, Manoj Vasudevan describes some of the benefits of joining Toastmasters International

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I had a ball being in charge of HOD Toastmasters meeting last night… Laughs abounded throughout the evening, mixed in with some serious speech making

Five speakers: a brilliant ice-breaker, three CC manual speeches and a Nigerian children’s moral fable. (“Why Do The Sun & The Moon Live in The Sky?”)

Continue reading “Having a ball”

The meeting on April 20 at HOD was a normal mix of fascinating, entertaining and slightly strange !

The whole night was organised and given an efficient flow with the debut of Jo in the TME (Toastmaster of the Evening) role, and she did a superb job and you would never have guessed she’d never done this role previously.

Nike delivered her HPL (High Performance Leadership) speech outlaying her plans for what she’ll be doing to achieve this award. This was evaluated in her normal insightful way by Gill.

Karl delivered a very humorous icebreaker speech for which he received the best speaker award of the night and was evaluated by Angela Hook.

Dennis enlightened us on the process for a loft extension for the 3rd project in the CC3 manual which was evaluated by Manish who won best evaluator award shared with Mike. Continue reading “Hark now hear the cricket toast!”

As usual there were a wide variety of speeches at this weeks meeting.

Jo delivered a speech titled “It is none of your business’ as the 2nd project in the competent communication manual that was evaluated by Steffy.

Denise came over all musical as she did the 7th project in the cc manual and evaluated by area director Seema. Continue reading “Alien chickens invade HOD!”

The following first appeared on the Toastmasters International facebook group and posted here with permission of the author Mark Snow. Continue reading “Finding your voice”

For the fifth month in a row HOD held a third meeting of the month to cope with the demand for speaking opportunities from our ever growing membership.

In a change to the regular format there were 5 speeches and a reduced table topics session.

The following members gave prepared speeches:

Manish Kataria did project 3 from CC manual. Bobbie Rutherford and Angela Hook both did project 4, Denise delivered project 6 and Elsa Caleb did project 5 from the Professional Speaker advanced manual with the award for speaker of the night going to Elsa. Continue reading “A buzz in the air at the extra March meeting for HOD”

On Saturday March 25 the area final was held at Watford speakers club for the International Speech contest and Evaluation contest.

Gill Ornstein president of HOD speakers won both contests with a powerful speech and challenging evaluation. To add a feather in the cap for HOD, Mike Freedman was placed 2nd in the evaluation contest. 1st & 2nd go through to the division finals meaning that both Gill and Mike will be representing HOD and area 61 in the division L final at London Business School on Saturday April 8 at 1.30pm. Continue reading “HOD wins both contests in the area final”