Albany Toastmasters Club 

7pm every 2nd and 4th TUESDAY of each month

The next meeting is on January 26, 2021 

There are no mistakes in Toastmasters - Just learning Experiences

CONFIDENCE is our product. Personal Confidence for those presentation to give at work, speech at a wedding or other special occasion, applying for a job and want an edge on your c.v. Toastmasters can help. It helped me.

CONFIDENCE using the tools of Listening, Speaking and Leadership, you can be whatever you set your mind to.

Announcing: 2017 Albany Speechcraft Course! This year, Albany Toastmasters Club is again providing you the opportunity to get rid of your fear of public speaking, once and for all. Our highly regarded Speechcraft Course, developed by Toastmasters International, will provide you with the confidence and ability to speak in front of people. Whether you are a beginner at public speaking, or an experienced presenter, this course can help you! The details: DATES: A 6-week crash course to public speaking, running Thursday evenings, from 4 May 2017 to 8 June 2017. TIME: 7:00pm – 9:00pm LOCATION: Romaleigh Hall, 31 Ocean View Road, Northcote, Auckland 0627 (H Morris Funeral Home). COST: $150 (bring a friend and both get 10% discount) Over the course of six weeks, you will have the opportunity to make presentations in front of a group, conduct a meeting, analyze other speakers' presentations, participate in impromptu speaking exercises, sharpen listening skills, and more. This is not a lecture course, but a participatory program presented in a non-threatening workshop atmosphere.  THIS COURSE IS NOW FULL, PLEASE CONTACT US TO BE PUT ON WAITING LIST FOR THE NEXT COURSE For more information or to sign up download our Speechcraft Course information flyer, or contact Feng Goldthorpe (021 140 9236 or feng.goldthorpe@gmail.com)

Just come along and watch, you will be made welcome

539 Albany Highway, Albany, on Auckland's North Shore

To contact us: email albanytoastmasters@d112.org.nz, call 0800 PEOPLE  or click here.

Albany Toastmasters Year End Meeting – December 8th, 2020 

Everyone was festive with their Christmas costumes to celebrate the end of the year along with six guests. Fantastic speeches from Sam Blood and Yizhou Dia. The generous table topics master brought present and everyone enjoyed making up grand stories about what was inside them. A Grand feast was had during the extended break with ample time to discuss our holiday plans. See everyone back in the new year on January 26th.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – November 24th, 2020 

There was a grand turnout this evening despite the inclement weather with five guests giving toastmasters a try. Three fantastic speeches from Liam Mao, Adam Buckley (icebreaker) and Nick Woods. The table topics master Declan Langston put a spin on table topics with a truth and false style session. where the presenter told a story and the audience guessed if it was true or false.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting & Moments of Truth Session – November 10th, 2020

Super energetic meeting with our toastmaster John O'Leary giving our four guests the toastmasters experience. The word of the day was "Voice" this was used profusely throughout the meeting. Two educative presentations from Sherman Whang and Robert Wightman. We also held a moment of truth session with positive feedback and some recommended improvements to the club. Adam Buckley was officially inducted into the club.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – October 27th, 2020

Well run and positive meeting run by Shishir Kumar this evening. The word of the day was "Respect" this was used throughout the meeting. Three awesome presentations from Declan Langston, Simon Burden and Robert Wightman. We also welcomed our newest member Adam Buckley.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – October 13th, 2020

We finally got back into physical meetings with the alert level going down to level 1. Great to see everyone engaging with the audience. Two welcome guests who thoroughly enjoyed the meeting. Superb presentations from John O'Leary, Simon Burden and Sherman Wang. Everyone stepped up to fill in the roles of those who could not make the meeting. 

Awards for Most Improved or Outstanding: Table Topic - Ivan, Evaluators - Liam Mao & Daniel Wang, Speaker - Sherman Whang

Albany Toastmasters Table Topics Contest – September 22nd, 2020

We had the club's first contest this year Table Topics!

There we 6 amazing Table Topic presentations about, What would you do without electricity? 

Congratulations to the winners this Declan Langston 1st, Liam Mao 2nd, Nick Woods 3rd.

A warm welcome to returning member Sam Blood, and our guests.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – September 8th, 2020

Well run, on time meeting despite the late start. The word of the day "Tactical" was frequently used throughout the meeting. Three informative and topical presentations from Greg Cannell, Yizhou Dai and Liam Mao.  Everyone stepped up to fill in the roles of those who could not make it at the last minute.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – August 25th, 2020

Back to a Zoom meeting this week, with a great turnout of 15 members. Fantastic speeches from Krystal Lai Wei,  Jack Ma with his first Icebreaker speech and Rob Wightman with an informative educational speech on the importance of evaluations. Unfortunately, there was no break time to mix and mingle with everyone however we all had our own tea and biscuits at home.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – August 11th, 2020 

There was a grand turnout this evening despite the inclement weather, with three fantastic speeches from Ying Li, Olesia Lyfar and Dallas Macris.  Liam the table topics master provided us with some really thought provoking topics. Special thanks to Robert, Yasmine and Greg for picking up roles at the last minute.

Welcome to Jack Ma as our newest member.

Our winners, Olesia Lyfar, Daniel Whang and Simon Burden

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – July 28th, 2020 

We had a fantastic meeting this evening, with three really informative speeches from Greg Cannell, John O'Leary and Rob Wightman. There was plenty of food to go around during the break, even with the large turnout and three guests. Yizhou Dia took up the challenge of being Toastmaster for the first time, keeping the meeting running smoothly.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – July 14th, 2020 

We had first physical meeting following the lockdown. It was awesome to see everyone getting back in to the swing of things and mingling during the break. There was a great turnout with new 5 guests. Fantastic speeches from Declan Langston, Gary Yuan and Nick Woods.

With the year coming to a close we presented the club awards.

Best Table Topic Speech: Rob Wightman

Best Evaluation: John O’Leary

Best Prepared Speech: Sherman Whang

Best Humorous Speech: Nick Woods

Most Improved Speaker: Yizhou Dai

Graeme Elliot Award: Dallas Macris

Toastmaster Of The Year: Greg Cannell

We also conducted the changeover of our club officers.

New club officers as follows; Simon Burden (President), Liam Mao (VPEd), Yasmine Elmahdy (VPM), Nick Woods (VPPR), Declan Langston (Secretary), Robert Wightman (Treasurer) and Yizhou Dai (Sgt at Arms)

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – June 23rd, 2020 

Last online meeting this season. It was again a jam packed online meeting with 15 members & 4 guests joined. Amazing speeaches by Alexandra, Ying Li, Shishir and Rober Tang. Then was excellent topic presented by Daria on 'foods'. First time ever in our club we had overseas guest from SriLanka - Lasitha Ramanayke. Next meeting will be Installation of new officers and an awards night. 

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – May 12th, 2020 

Annual Business Meeting & Election of Officers.

It was a jam packed online meeting 20 members & guest joined. Amazing speeaches by Sherman Wang, Rob Whightman. Then was excellent topic presented by Yasmine and conducted enthusiastic table topics. ABM ran by our President Daniel and Election process for next office by Shishir Kumar.

Next office roles elected as follows; Simon Burden (President), Liam Mao (VPEd), Yasmine Elmahdy (VPM), Nick Woods (VPPR), Declan Langston (Secretary), Robert Wightman (Treasurer) and Yizhou Dai (Sgt at Arms)

Awards for Best Speaker: Sherman Wang, Evaluator: Daria Rogtneva & Olesia Lyfar and Table Topic: Georgie Templton (guest)

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – April 14th, 2020 

Another amazing online meeting. Joined by guest Jack Ma and we all witnessed informative speech by Nick Woods, Lessia Lyfar's ice breaker speech and 'News Event- The science behind Covid 19 testing.' by Robert Tang. We were honored by the presence of our Area Director Dallas Macris. The best speaker award went to Olessia Lyfar, most improved Table Topic speaker was Gary Yuan and best evaluator was B. John O Leary.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – February 25th, 2020 

What an amazing evening we had. It was annual competition night.

Declan ran the humorous speech contest and Nicholas wood (winner) and Yizhou Dai was the runner up. Both will go to area contest to represent Albany.

Krystal was the contest chair for the International speech contest. Sherman Wang (winner), Shishir Kumar (runner up) and Daniel Wang (2nd runner up). Sherman and Shishir will proceed to area contest to represent club Albany.

Kudos to all the supporting members. Almost everyone participated with some role to make this event an exciting one.

All the best for Area contest.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – January 28th, 2020

  It was a great start of our meeting specially after the christmas break and new year. Prepared speeches by John O' Leary, Greg Cannell and Dallas Macris. Bard by Robert Wightman who spoke about Integrit, honesty and service. Krystal was Table topic master and ran the session beautifuly and involved the guests as well. Robert has done the excellent job of toastmaster and kept the session flowing. Rob has presented ACG certificate to Dallas. Congratulations to Dallas, one more step to go....

Welcome 'Olesia Lyfar' as our new member.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – November 12th, 2019

Amazing meeting today. Speeches by Nick Woods, Yizou, Waqar & Vanessa. Word of the day was 'Rejuvenate' proposed by Grammarian Shishir. Liam is back. Congratulations to PJ Sneah who won area contest in Evaluation contest.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – October 22, 2019 (Contest)

We had club's first contest this year. Table topics and Evaluation.

Table topic have seen 7 contestants and Evaluation 4. It was amazing to see many new member have participated in this event which was heartening.

and the winners was, for evaluation :  PJ Sneah (1st), Daniel Wang(2nd) & Greg Cannell (3rd)

for Table Topics: PJ Sneah (1st),  Michael Chung (2nd) and Vanessa (3rd)

From Albany club, top two in each category will compete in area contest on 6th November. All the very best to winners and kudos to all the participants and everyone who made this event possible by performing leadership roles.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – October 8, 2019

We had around 2 guests and one ex member Brad Neilsen visited us.There was educational by Simon Burden on 'Evaluation', & another educational by Rob W. on 'greet the guests'. Speech by PJ Sneah recognized as best speaker and ice-breaker speech by Krytal. Alexandra was awarded best evaluation Vaneesa awarded as best Table Topics presenter. Next meeting is on 22nd October and is contest night. Witness and cheer our table topic and evaluation participants.

Albany Toastmasters Meeting – September 24, 2019

We had around 4 guests and some exciting speeches by members.There was educational by Shishir Kumar on 'Organizing Your Speech', Ice-breaker speech by PJ Sneah (also recognized as best speaker) and speech on Mentoring by Greg. Best evaluation by Simon Burden and guest awarded as best Table Topics presenter.

 Albany Toastmasters Meeting – September 10, 2019

Ronan (guest) presented best table topic presenter.
Rob as the best evaluator.
Sherman as the best speaker .

 Albany Toastmasters Meeting – August 27, 2019

Another exciting meeting was held, again with 8 visitors including some returning to join us. Speeches by Yizhou Dai (ice-breaker), Robert Tang at short notice, and Daniel Wong Buying a Car. A negotiation with his wife on the best car for their purposes. Great Table Topics session run by Waqar Ahmed, with several visitors joining in the fun.

Next meeting September 10

 Albany Toastmasters Meeting – August 13, 2019

Despite the wind and rain last evening, Albany Toastmasters met as usual at 539 Albany Highway at 7pm. Members were joined by eight very welcome guests, who were able to take an active part in the clubs Greg Cannell and Dallas Macris did a great job of managing the Moments of Truth exercise analysing the club’s activities and routines. Most comments were positive, but like any organisation, there is always room for improvement and progress. Waqar Ahmed gave his 4-6 minute icebreaker speech, describing his journey to New Zealand and his passion for Cricket. John O’Leary – BJ gave us an insight to the world of Mentoring and Coaching, noting the differences and using as an example a young lady whom he coached at his sport of Judo to International success. Table Topics as usual was a great success. The theme ‘emotions’ used by Declan Langston was humorously used by Rob, Robert and several of the 8 guests.

To find us: Click here for directions and our club calendar.

Learn more about our club: About Albany Toastmasters Club and our club's mission

Find out about our work in the community: Our community projects

What's in it for you? It's all about Confidence

The skills and confidence gained through Toastmasters meetings and your participation in them will almost certainly benefit you in your private life and at your place of work.

• Those meetings where you are asked to speak.
•           Conversations where you need to make your point.
•                              Being confident when dealing with customers
•                                         Being able to impress the Boss with your clear thinking
•                                                              Having that edge when you go for that interview.

How to get started? We meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at the Albany Presbyterian Church, 539 Albany Highway, in Albany on Auckland's North Shore. (Across the road from the new Albany Senior High School).

Meetings run from 7pm to 9.15pm.

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