We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new members Lisa W and Lisa Y.  They have both visited us on a few occasions, and enjoyed their experience.  For 2013, they gave themselves a new year’s resolution to finally take the plunge and join the St-Lawrence Toastmasters Club in Montreal in order to fully partake in the Toastmasters programme.

Are you interested in knowing more about Toastmasters and how it can help you communicate more effectively in public and become a stronger leader?  Feel free to join us at one of our Tuesday evening meetings.

Here is the programme for the evening of Tuesday January 29, 2013.

First of all, the St. Lawrence Toastmasters Club would like to wish you a wonderful 2013!

Some of you may have given yourselves some goals (aka “New year’s resolutions”), such as:

• improving your ability to speak in public
• learning to organise your speech more effectively
• find out how to become a better leader

This is exactly what Toastmasters can help you do.  So if you are interested in attending a Toastmasters club in downtown Montreal, feel free to come visit us!

Here is the agenda for the Toastmasters meeting of January 8, 2013.

And with that, we leave you with a pleasant little video to ring in the new year with a bang! (Well, with a bounce, actually.)

We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new Toastmasters member Carmel.  She has come to visit us on a couple of occasions last year as well as this year, and feels this is a good time to join St-Lawrence Toastmasters for all that Toastmasters has to offer.

Carmel being welcomed by our club president Martina.

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Are you interested in finding out more about Toastmasters?  Come meet us!

Here is the meeting agenda for Tuesday December 4, 2012.  Please note that exceptionally this week we are meeting in a separate room down the hall from where we normally meet. (Normally, we meet in the conference room that is located just beside the Restaurant L’Ambroisie. However, they are having a special function that evening and this is why we are meeting down the hall in a smaller room.)

NOTE: The last meeting of 2012 will be on Tuesday December 11.  Then we return after the holidays on January 8, 2013.

Dear members and guests: 
Please note that for the St-Lawrence Toastmasters Montreal meeting of November 20, we will be organizing it in a slightly different format that our regular meetings. If you are familiar with the typical Toastmasters meeting format, there are three components to the educational portion: Table Topics (to help members to think on their feet), Prepared Speeches (to help members to hone in on their speaking skills), and Speech Evaluations (to help members improve their listening and feedback-giving skills).  At the November 20 meeting, we will be have a triple Table Topics session and shall therefore drop out the Prepared Speeches portion that evening.

Interested in visiting us? Here is the Saint-Lawrence Toastmasters programme for the evening of November 20, 2012.

We would like to welcome our new members Ilya, Monica, and Carlo (shown left-to-right in the picture below with our club president Martina).

Monica would like to get a better grasp of public speaking, and also learn to not be shy when giving presentations.

Ilya thinks that public speaking is tremendously important (for example, he saw the value that public speaking can have during the recent US elections).

Carlo is already very keen to get started in the Toastmasters adventure.  He already received his Toastmasters New Member Kit.  (This includes, among others, the Competent Communication manual, a workbook of 10 speech projects, to help members develop their Public Speaking Skills.  Also included is the Competent Leadership manual, with projects to help members develop their Leadership Skills.)

As a matter of fact, all three members will be giving their Ice Breaker speeches at our next meeting. 

Are you interested in Toastmasters?  Find out more by coming to one of our meetings.  Here is the evening programme for our Toastmasters meeting of November 13, 2012.

Êtes-vous intéressé(e) à en savoir plus sur Toastmasters?  Venez nous rencontrer.  Nous sommes un club Toastmasters bilingue à Montréal (nos réunions hebdomadaires se déroulent en français et en anglais).

Nous aimerions chaleureusement accueillir nos nouveaux membres Geneviève, Amit et Marck.

Geneviève, Martina (présidente du club), Amit, Marck

Geneviève s’est joint à nous d’un autre club Toastmasters.  Le fait que nous soyons un club bilingue n’à fait qu’ajouter à son intérêt de se joindre à notre club.

Amit est venu nous visiter à quelques reprises et a décidé de faire le saut et de se joindre à l’aventure.

Marck a vu le potentiel que Toastmasters pourra lui apporter dans ses plans professionnels de leadership.

Êtes-vous intéressés à nous visiter?

We would like to encourage and wish all the best to our two contestants Christian Turianskyj and Nicholas Kepper as they participate in the Toastmasters District 61 Division F Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests.

Venez vous joindre à nous!

Concours d’évaluation & de discours humoristique Toastmasters
Vendredi 19 octobre, 2012
18 h 30 à 23 h
Frais d’entrée :  $10
 
Centre Communautaire Sarto Desnoyers
1335, chemin Bord du Lac
Dorval (Québec) Canada
H9S 2E5 

Click on the image for directions

If you would like to attend the event, consult the program of the evening.

Congratulations to all the participants of the Club Humorous Speech Contests as well as the Club Evaluation Contests, held on September 18, 2012.

For the English contests, the winners were:

Toastmasters English Humorous Speech Contest:

1. (no winner)

Toastmasters English Evaluations Contest:

1. Nicholas Kepper

2. Alex Chan

3. Tobi Rodrigue

Shown above with Martina Kugler (Contest Chair): contestants Charles Assaf, Christian Turianskyj, Alex Chan, Tobi Rodrigue, Nicholas Kepper

The first two winners will go on to participate in the Area 53 Fall Contest. Should one of these two winners not be available for the contest, then the third winner can compete instead.

P.S. Thanks to Sacha Pommepuy for having given the target speech for the evaluation contest.

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Are you interested in coming to meet us?

Here is a copy of the evening programme for September 25, 2012.

Félicitations aux gagnants des concours du club St-Lawrence Toastmasters Montréal, qui ont eu lieu la soirée du 18 septembre 2012.

Voici les heureux gagnants des concours français :

Concours de discours humoristique Toastmasters :

1. Michel Gadbois

Ci-dessus : Tobi Rodrigue (participant au concours anglais), Martina Kugler (présidente du concours), et Michel Gadbois

Concours d’évaluations en français Toastmasters :

1. Christian Turianskyj

2. Tobi Rodrigue

3. Alex Chan

Les premiers et deuxièmes gagnants iront donc au Concours du secteur 53. Si un des gagnants ne peut être présent à ce concours-là, le troisième gagnant participera alors à sa place.

P.S. Un gros merci à Lawrence Walsh pour avoir donné le discours cible (celui qui fut évalué par les concurrents).

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Êtes-vous intéressé(e) à assister à une de nos rencontres? 

Voici le programme de la soirée du 25 septembre 2012.