18 May 2017 Moo G. Moon Education Center
Greetings Fellow Toastmasters,
Greeters: Robin McIntosh and Alan Wong
Food Chair: Dirk Kittredge
Toastmaster: Luke Vesely
Brain exercise to remember a series of random letters. The longest and
most challenging consisted of 14 letters. F R O G B A T P I G D U C K. So
creative. It's a good thing I was paying attention.
Speaker: Kathy Barrett.
Leadership Part III. Working in the team environment from
Success/Leadership series.
Kathy started the workshop with a very nice story relating to who's flying
the kite. Is it the little boy? Is it the wind? Is it the tale of the
kite? Answer: They all are.
Workshop Agenda - Part 1.
Team Environment, developing team relations, and encouraging commitment.
We followed along with a work book that Kathy provided.
Pop Exercise 1. Developing Team Relations. Answered questions provided by
Kathy with our partner. What type of work do you do? What would you
change about your work? Where did you go on your last vacation? What is
your favorite movie?
Exercise from Work book on commitment.
Workshop Agenda - Part 2.
Fostering Collaboration, building trust, and resolving conflict.
Pop Exercise 2. Fostering Collaboration, to demonstrate the value of
synergy. We were to take two letters and relate them to names of famous
people.
WC - Winston Churchill. RM - Robin McIntosh (good one). LK - Larry King
During the break we had food provided by everyone and it was all
delicious. Good job Dirk for organizing everything. I'm not a food
critique by any means but the devil eggs were delicious. Chicken wings
were finger licking good. The ice cream with ginger ale is always a home
run. And the crunchy taquitos were my personal favorite. Thank you
everyone for bringing food. It's always a fantastic meeting when there's
food.
Kathy Barrett's workshop on leadership and team was educational and
organized. Everyone participated and she kept the meeting moving along.
The colorful round stickers and the power point all took some time to put
together. Awesome job Kathy.
One of the exercise questions from the work book asks why is it in your
best interest to commit to your team and it's goal? There are many answers
and not one is more important than another. 1. Comfort. I think we're
all comfortable with each other and this allows us to be ourselves. 2.
Growth. We're all here to learn from each other and to be the best that we
can allow ourselves to be. 3. Friendship. The presence of the deepest
connection, loyalty, respect, and trust. 4. Fun. Who does not want to
have fun? 5. Family. (enough said). This is why I commit to this
toastmasters. This is why WE all commit to this toastmasters. If we commit
Kathy's message to toastmasters (and we do) it explains a lot as to why
this toastmasters is as successful as it is. We all commit or we cease to
exist.
And Kathy ended her presentation with "Who's flying the kite"? Answer. . .
WE all are.
We had 15 members in attendance. It was another meeting where "you
should've been there". I will end this recap with a quote. We judge
ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what
we have already done. -----Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Till next week, I am your humble secretary.
Alan Wong
