University of Rzeszów Toastmasters Club

On March 24 our members met once again to listen to Karolina Porzuczek, who, as the Toastmaster of that Day, told us about her favourite places to hang out in the one and only city - Rzeszów. The performance of our dear TMD was accompanied with a cheerful discussion.

There were two prepared speeches on March 24 - Kacper Burnat debuted as a prepared speaker, whereas Bartosz Dzwolak summarized his two years in Toastmasters as part of the 5 level.

Thanks to our functionists the reunion could run smoothly. The functionists were:

💜 Aleksandra Morawczyńska - Timer,

🖤 Paweł Kudyba - Grammarian,

🩵 Magdalena Suraj (Pionier Rzeszów Toastmasters) - General Evaluator,

💚 Martyna Roga - Table Topics Master,

🧡 Olga Ludera&Dominik L**h - speech evaluators.

The best Table Topics speaker was Tomasz Pająk and the best Performer was Magdalena Suraj.

March 20, 2023 was a special day. On that day, Bartosz Dzwolak and Pawel Kudyba have joined the club. The rest is history. 🐼💫

Today's schedule includes celebrating the second anniversary of our duo.In addition, we are looking forward to, for example, the icebreaker by Kacper Burnat!

We cordially invite you to the today's meeting.:) The link: https://www.facebook.com/share/1EKc3RxFhx/.

Word of the Day - March 24

Link to the today's meeting about good places to hang out in Rzeszów (the city of innovations): https://www.facebook.com/share/18qCrKjyxM/

It's time to take a glance at the photos from our last contest.

Phot. Paweł Kudyba, Szymon Bal, Mateusz Ryba

Hello! Dzień dobry! Good afternoon! Here we go:

the winners of the today's club contest (prepared speeches in English 🇬🇧🇺🇸 and Polish 🇵🇱) are...

..

When it comes to the prepared speeches in English..the winners are:

🥇Bartosz Dzwolak
🥈Martyna Roga,
🥉Dominik L**h,
💚 Aleksandra Morawczyńska, Karolina Porzuczek.

When it comes to the contest in Polish...

the winners are...

..

🥇 Bartosz Dzwolak,
🥈 Aleksandra Morawczyńska.

Thank you for your courage and magnificent speeches:)

March 10 - an evening to remember 💫.

Together with our Toastmaster of the Evening, Karolina Porzuczek, we discussed the topic of student life. Moreover, table topics questions created by Martyna Roga were also connected to student life.

Let's also appreciate the work of our other functionists:

💚 Daniil Ulan - Timer,
💚 Aleksandra Morawczyńska - Ah-counter,
💚 Paweł Kudyba - Grammarian,
💚 Olga Ludera - General Evaluator and Prepared Speech Evaluator.

Thank you very much. There also were two prepared speeches: Szymon Bal's icebreaker and Bartosz Dzwolak's speech about Toastmasters. When it comes to the Bartosz's speech, there was a group evaluation.

The best Table Topics speaker, the Best Performer and the photographer was Szymon Bal.

Our club is an university-based one, so the following meeting title 'How to live university life brightly'? aroused the curiosity of club members and guests.

On 10 March our Toastmaster of the Day, Karolina Porzuczek, conducted a discussion on student life and gave students pieces of advice such as:

💜 it is a good idea try new learning methods by using tools such as canva (a place where you can create interesting graphic designs, presentations...), quizlet for creating online flashcards or kahoot ( a tool used by many people to create online tests),

💜 cooking can be a great way to relax after or between classes at university,

🩵 General advice from Karolina? Take advantage of student life - meet new people, get involved in extra projects and travel (for example via student exchanges).

Our members like travelling and are cooperative. There was a good example of inter-club cooperation on March 5 - on that day our President, Olga Ludera, visited a club from Kraków (Toastmasters Kraków).

On March 5 Toastmasters Kraków actually joined forces with Toastmasters PK - Klub Mówców i Liderów, which resulted in an unforgettable show. But most importantly...not only did Olga listen to her friends from Kraków, but she also conducted a meeting there!

On Wednesday Olga and Wojciech Wolski were Toastmasters of the Day and it cannot be denied that this duo was in a good mood during the meeting :D

The Word of the Day on March 10 is 'JOLLY' (synonyms: cheerful, nice, cheery). 💙🤍❤️
The link to our next meeting: https://facebook.com/events/s/how-to-live-university-life-br/954653286862163/.

Sentence: The atmosphere during the last university party was very jolly.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, we would like to wish lots of smiles, fulfilled dreams, the ability to create magnificent evaluations, health and happiness to all women involved in the life of the Toastmasters organization.:) 💙❤️

On March 3 we experienced a very important meeting about evaluations. How to become a BOSS of evaluations? During the reunion, the Toastmaster of the Day, Mateusz Ryba, shared his tips, thoughts gathered through his TM travels and conversations with numerous Toastmasters. 💜

When evaluating someone's speech, it is important to:

- be precise, the person being evaluated must know exactly what he/she did well and where there is room for improvement,

- be objective,

- smile :D 'Nothing you wear is more important than your smile' - Connie Stevens (an American actress),

- it is recommended that an evaluation has a clear structure (introduction, main body and conclusion),

- initially focus on one/two things that the person being evaluated can improve - this is particularly important for those Toastmasters who are taking their first steps in public speaking.

One popular method of providing feedback was also discussed (the FUKO Method). Where does this acronym come from? 😃

F as in facts (in Polish: fakty) - presenting facts in a neutral manner,

U - feelings (PL: uczucia) - expressing emotions related to a speaker's behavior,

K - consequences (PL: konsekwencje) - How the speaker's behavior/attitude can affect other Toastmasters?,

o - expectations (oczekiwania) - What do you expect from the speaker?

The art of evaluation is difficult, that goes without saying. However, thanks to such meetings we can improve the level of our evaluations. 😀

There was a reunion of our club on March 3 - this time the shining star was Mateusz Ryba. He performed as the Toastmaster of that Monday and the evaluator of an ice-breaker.

The ice-breaker (about the importance of reading and constant learning) prepared by Krystian Urban and a speech about club coaching (!) by Monika Szlachta (Pionier Rzeszów Toastmasters) were definitely the crème de la crème of our last meeting. 🍮

Let's also appreciate the work of our other functionists:

Dariusz Walat (Pionier Rzeszów Toastmasters) - General Evaluator,

Kacper Burnat - Timer,

Martyna Roga - Ah-counter,

Paweł Kudyba - Grammarian,

Karolina Porzuczek - Speech Evaluator (of the Monika Szlachta's speech),

Bartosz Winczowski - Table Topics Master.

The best Table Topics speakers were: Szymon Bal and Bartosz Dzwolak, whereas the best performers of March 3 were: Krystian Urban, Monika Szlachta and Mateusz Ryba. 🌻

Kudos to you all:)

SNIPPET:

On March 3 we experienced a discussion about evaluations prepared by Mateusz Ryba - a person who's been around in Toastmasters for a long time. How to conduct a good evaluation? We will tell you about it soon in a separate post. 😀

Word of the Day - March 3

We encourage you to use the word 'beneficial' during the next meeting. It starts tomorrow at 7 PM. The link; https://www.facebook.com/share/14wPpryjKD/. 💚

The summary of February 24:

Best Performer: Julia Rozmus 💣,

There were three prepared speeches:

1) Olga Reviakina (Project: 'Body Language, Effective coaching', level 3, Title: 'Blame vs Responsibilility'). 🩵 Her evaluator was Karolina Porzuczek 💛.

2) Julia Rozmus (Level 1, Project: 'Evaluation and Feedback', 'Capitalize on confidence'). 💚 Evaluator: Mateusz Ryba. 🌞

3)Dariusz Walat (Level 2. Project: 'Introduction to Toastmasters Mentoring'. Title: 'Let's talk about mentoring'). 💜 Evaluator: Magdalena Suraj. 🩷

The person responsible for the usual discussion (Toastmaster of the Day) was Bartosz Dzwolak, who gave his blood, sweat and tears in order to create his own crime novel, an interactive game and a presentation about famous murderers, who could murder in cold blood. ❤️🖤

We are also glad that we listened to two people, who are new blood at our club - Krystian Urban (Timer) 🧡 and Daniil Ulan 💙(Ah-counter). 💛

The grammarian was Martyna Poręba and the role of the general evaluator belonged to Monika Szlachta. 🤍

Photos were taken by Olga Reviakina and Paweł Kudyba. 🖤

On Monday (February 24) our Toastmaster of that day, Bartosz Dzwolak, led us through the world of crimes and famous murderers. 🖤 He also created his own crime novel and showed it to us! ⬛

Phot. Olga Reviakina, more words and photos in the near future. 💣