06-08-06 Meeting Summary

Today our Toastmaster was Mike C. The theme he picked was Summer Time
Activities. Mike told us that his favorite summer time activity is
watching the fireworks.

The Word of the Day presented by Laura C. was Cavort. Cavort means to
prance or to engage in extravagant behavior.

Our first speaker was Jerry V. His speech was titled "Financial
Planning: A Business Model for Success". Before starting his speech Jerry
told us this talk would be presented to a group of financial advisors.
Jerry explained to us that financial planning is an on going process.
Financial planners need to see the short and long term goals of their
clients which need to be in writing and are designed to achieve their
goals. The planning process has six steps: 1)Goal identification. 2)Data
gathering. 3)Plan analysis. 4)Solution development. 5)Plan presentation and
6)Review annually

Our second speaker was Eddie K. Eddie had a three part presentation
today. The title of his speech was "Give it a Tri!" The first part Eddie
told us how to be a better cold caller. Being a successful cold calling
sales person needs three things. 1)Being resourceful. 2)Question with care
and 3)Addressing objections. The second part of Eddies speech was a role
playing with Dave B. Eddie used his three reasons to being a
successful sales person to try and convince Dave to try a triathlon. The
last part of Eddies speech was a question and answer session.

We ran out of time for Keri O’s inspiration/humor.

Our table topics master was Mark H. His one question went to Marian
Johnson. He asked her what he can do to help him out when he exercises
because he is a big sweater. Marian told Mark that her husband is also a
big sweater and he always uses a head band to prevent sweat from getting
into his eyes and he also recently decided to bring a small hand towel and
pin it onto his short to use to wipe off the sweat when he is exercising.

Our evaluators for todays meeting were Dave B. and Betsy S.
Dave evaluated Jerry's speech. Dave told Jerry that he accomplished his
goal of the speech which was to persuade with power. Dave felt Jerry was
passionate about his topic and he did a good job on all the technical terms
used during the speech. Dave told Jerry that his eye contact was good when
he was not reading off the screen. Dave noted a few ok's during the speech
and gave Jerry some power point tips for his next speech.

Betsy evaluated Eddies speech. Betsy felt during the first part of Eddie's
speech he had good energy, the content of the speech was good and the
organization of the speech was good. Betsy told Eddie that during the role
playing section of the presentation he asked allot of good questions that
started with what or how. Eddie was good at validating Daves opinions and
questions and he offered Dave lots of options to consider about triathlons.

Jeff S. was our timer for today meeting. He reported the following
times: Jerry 6:30, Eddie 4:41, 8:08 and 3:00, Marian 1:58, Dave 4:55 and
Betsy 2:34.

Laura C. reported over all we were pretty good on ahs and ums. She
liked when Marian said "Discreet British sweaters" and when Mike said
"Jack was more then a glow - he was a big drip"

Laura G. was our General Evaluator today. She felt Mike did a good
job, but next time he should introduce himself. She liked the word of the
day. Laura noted the evaluators had a couple of ums and she liked the way
they both used examples from the speeches during the evaluations. Laura
suggested that the timer should get the speech times before the meeting
starts. She also liked Marks question and Marian response during the Table
Topics portion of the meeting. Our spirit award went to Dave B. today.

See you all next Thursday!