- Well done Peter Scholtens on winning terrace at 12 speech contest ! a double header ! Congrats to all who took part
- Today is Terrace at 12 club contest day ! come along to support your colleagues... on the terrace at 12...Today !
- The next competition is Club Speech contest, tomorrow at the Terrace at ... well 12!!! Make sure you come along and support !
- Congratulations to Peter Scholtens who won our club evaluation contest ! well done Pater all all who entered ! Looking forward to next comp!
- Huzzah ! our Terrace at 12 website is back up after some technical tom-foolery by the VP Marketing !!
At a Glance
Founded in 2002 as SKM Toastmasters in Wellington, the members of Terrace@12 Toastmasters are dedicated to improving their communication skills which in turn enhances confidence in leadership and success in a variety of fields. Terrace@12 is a lunchtime Toastmasters club.
Toastmasters is a non-profit, non-religious, non-political volunteer organization open to all members of the community 18 years old and over.
We meet every Wednesday from 12-1 PM. Usually on Level 3 – 44 The Terrace, Wellington, NZ.
Yesterday I felt like a proud Mum. The speeches were fantastic, and the support from all of you and our guests for both this and the evaluation contest unparalleled (for a contest) in my time at Toastmasters. For those of you who didn’t make it we were treated to four riveting speeches all of which demonstrated the skills that the rest of us hope to obtain. What was so impressive was the range of skills demonstrated by each of the contestants – Peter really had to work to earn his win.
Congratulations to Peter our winner for both contests, and all the contestants for both contests. You showed us all how you can really learn and improve by entering contests. You also demonstrated that its up to each of us – the more we put into the process, the more we can improve.
A special thanks to our guest judges – for taking the time during their precious lunch hours to support us.
Thanks also to our two chairs Ratna and Pauline, all those who volunteered and took a supporting role and not least the audience!
Alex Dean our esteemed VP Public Relations webmaster has come to the end of his journey at Terrace@12 Toastmaster’s club. In the short period of time that he was with the club, he motivated us with his heart-touching speeches. His enthusiasm and smile were absolutely infectious.
Alex after giving an amusing speech at Terrace@12 Toastmasters
It was his leadership and commitment that saw Terrace@12 achieve the ‘Dale Hartle’ best website award for 2011. The website was commended on having a fresh design, links to social media, useful navigation menu and news in a blog format.
We the members of Terrace@12 bid him farewell and wish him all the best for his endeavours in the future…he will be an asset to his next club, somewhere in Australia.
Not two weeks ago I completed my 9th speech. And it left me stunned afterwards. I could hardly believe how well it went. For weeks I had been searching for a topic that would do the project justice. Convincing my audience and calling them to action. Nothing I came up with seemed to fit my diverse and highly intelligent audience. None of them are very technical so I had to search for gripping topics outside of my narrow Enterprise IT world.
It was Tuesday morning and I was about to despair when I read the paper and knew instantly that I had landed the jackpot. The wellywood discussion was flaring up again and final voting was about to start. Perfect ammunition to get everyone involved and push some buttons. The only dilemma was that I had less than 24 hours to write and rehearse my speech.