Smedley Award – 01 August to 30 September
Smedley Award – 01 August to 30 September We simply need to gain 5 new members between 01 August and 30 September to receive a club ribbon and a 10% discount codeRead More…
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Giving Effective Evaluations
A key part of any Toastmaster meeting is the opportunity to evaluate speeches and roles. Evaluations allow you to give people constructive feedback. Frequent, quality feedback ensures improvement, which is what manyRead More…
General Evaluator’s Report: May 17th, 2017
As General Evaluator, my role is to give feedback on the meeting as a whole, and to evaluate anything that would not otherwise be evaluated. As the written evaluation doesn't have theRead More…
General Evaluation of Meeting – 15th February 2017
Room set-up: The venue was well set up with sufficient chairs and with tables set to each side. (Comment: This is useful for those doing evaluations, etc. as they then have aRead More…
Area Director’s Report 1st February 2017
If you know anything about our meetings at Casterbridge Speakers, the Dorchester based Toastmasters International Club, it will be that everything in the meeting is evaluated, but you may not know thatRead More…
General Evaluator’s Report 18th January 2017
The meeting began with the very sad announcement by President Bev Hepting that Dryden Pennington passed away on Tuesday 17th Jan. We all agreed with her proposal that we made the meetingRead More…
Giving Feedback That Works
Giving feedback is a critical skill for all Toastmasters. Leaders and managers in the workplace can use it to develop and motivate their people. It is key to improving performance. The latestRead More…
Committee Meeting January 2017
Another productive Committee Meeting was held last night with Colin Beveridge, Douglas Pigg, Luke McLachlan, Beverley Hepting and Christine Wallach in attendance. Douglas kicked things off, as Treasurer, with an update regardingRead More…
2016’s Final Meeting
Casterbridge Speakers had its final meeting for 2016 when we met on Wednesday the 21st December, and what a Merry meeting it was! We were joined by three guests; Paul, Ali andRead More…
Toastmaster Meeting 7th December
Word of the day – ADVENT We had a lively evening at Casterbridge Toastmasters on 7th December, with two guests who were made very welcome. It was my first opportunity to serveRead More…