Auckland CBD Toastmasters

Our Best Table Topic and Most Improved Speaker awards get shared each meeting, you’re handed the trophy and before you know it, you’re passing it straight on to the next winner! 🐧

Come along to our next meeting on 17 February at 1pm. Message us for more details 👋

EXCITING NEWS 🤗

We’ve recently moved to a new venue - PWC tower L13!
Plenty of space, plenty of view!
Great effort everyone who turned up to our bi-weekly meeting. Welcome to our 2 guests who joined us on the day, also participated in our Table Topic (impromptu speech ) Well done 👏

We look forward to seeing you guys back.

Live to work or work to live?

This was the theme that inspired our meeting and speeches this week. Great work Natalia stepping into the toastmaster role.

A big call out to Loes for her prepared speech sharing her journey with Toastmasters from her very first meeting.

Great participation today and 10/10 for clever use of pauses instead of filler words by all participants too!

Seems like yesterday we had our first meeting of June. Laura as Toastmaster did a great job of making us reflect on our shopping desires with her theme of “Retail Therapy: Treat or Trap” and Natalia as our table topics master gave us some great topics to speak about. Here’s a few photos of our meeting.

Today we had a great meeting with a theme of “Overcoming Challenge”. Every member had a turn at impromptu speaking with a Table Topic. Definitely the topics stretched even some of our most experienced members - some having to really call on their learned speaking techniques.

If you’re interested in developing your public speaking skills come along to our next meeting 3rd week of May.

At our first Toastmasters meeting in March we were joined by Cedric our Area Director and Pippa chaired the meeting as Toastmaster with a theme of ‘Spontaneity’. She encouraged all to be present, forget the pre-prepared table topic ideas and lean in to the unknown. Great participation from all and the tightly folded table topics we each had to unwrap kept us on our toes too.

Fantastic meeting today with some innovative table topics from Chantal our Table Topics Master.

Fun times. Good energy. Safe space.

Come join us next meeting, we meet every 2 weeks on a Tuesday at 1pm 🕐

Fab meeting today team! ☺️

A big welcome to our guests Alex and Nicole 👋🏽

Congratulations Chantal for a fantastic icebreaker speech 🧊

And thank you Betty for the interesting Table Topics session 🧧🏮

First meeting back for 2025! What a great way to start the year!

Toastmasters builds confidence, enhances public speaking and teaches valuable leadership skills.

Join us, invest in yourself for 2025 (and actually most businesses offer to pay for this professional development)

Thank you Esther for your fab icebreaker speech and well done Rob for winning best table topic 🐧

Next meeting is 28th January

Ho,ho, ho! To celebrate our final meeting of the year, Sam our Toastmaster, led a Christmas themed meeting. We mixed it up with all members presenting and evaluating a table topic and finished the meeting with the ‘bang’ of Christmas crackers. It was wonderful hearing about everyone’s Christmas traditions and experiences!

🙏A big thank you to our committee for making sure everything ran smoothly this year and our new members for your energy and participation.

🎄 We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, a wonderful new year and a lovely holiday break. See you all back on the 14th January!

A fabulous icebreaker by Hayley and some fantastic table topics at this weeks Toastmasters meeting!

Join us at our last official meeting of the year on the 3rd December (we’ll also do a slightly more casual one on the 17th) 🎅🏼

A great meeting today led by Betty (her first time as Toastmaster - well done!) with a theme of “Perseverance” and we were also joined by Cedric our Area director (which we always enjoy).

A big congrats to Glen for presenting his first Pathways speech and winning our MIST award! It’s always really inspiring to us all when someone is giving a speech that’s been practised and carefully prepared.

Laura led a fantastic table topics session with us creatively challenged to talk about a random object given to us… and surprise, surprise we all nailed it!

Can’t wait until next time!