Lemberg Toastmasters statistics for First half-year of 2013

Lemberg Toastmasters
First half-year of 2013 statistics

15 meetings 
(on average 5 meetings per 2 months)

3 prepared speeches by 3 speakers
(on average 0.33 speeches per meeting, 0.5 per month, 1 per speaker)
And also 6 mini-speeches by 4 speakers.

21 people were taking roles
Thank you all so much!

112 total roles participations
Including prepared speakers (~7.46 roles per meeting, ~5.33 participations by one person for half-year or ~0.88 per month)

14 viewpoints, 10 table topics, 11 games

Visiting Lemberg toastmasters for one month you'd go to 2 or 3 meetings, possibly hear a prepared speech and certainly hear 1 mini-speech, participate in around 2 viewpoints and table topics, two games, and take a role once. 

In general this half-year was a lot about impromptu speaking and games. Unfortunately, we’re still witnessing a steady decline in club attendance - from more than 200 role participations per half-year in 2011, to 153 in first half-year of 2012, to 137 in second half-year 2012, to 112 this half-year. 

But we had almost two times more games than previous half-year. 

We had three times fewer prepared speeches than previous half-year, but a slight increase in mini-speeches though.

We need to invite new people and increase attendance! This was our imperative for first half-year of 2013, and it remains thus for the second half-year.

Notable standouts
- Most versatile - Ihor Klyuka took 9 different roles!
Everyone else took 7 and less different roles during this half-year.

- Most active - Mykola Makhin took roles 18 times (one or more than one role each meeting).
Ihor Klyuka and Tetiana Povshyk come close with 15 and 14 participations respective.
Everyone else took 12 and less roles during this half-year.

Let's delve into details...

Tasks for semi-humorous TableTopics

Greetings fellows.

Recently I have led some more (semi-)humorous TableTopics, and I'm ready to share some details on that - maybe they'll help you prepare your own TableTopics or re-use those at your club.

For the TableTopic every speaker had to imagine himself or herself as someone who occupies position of a City Mayor or possibly a leader of influential party or political fraction within City Council - any imaginary person that has the power to initiate some major changes within the city (I know that's not exactly realistic, but it's just fine for the sake of TableTopic - after all it had to have some humour in it so noone would get bored (-: ).

The speaker was given a task - a description of certain change that he/she as an influential figure was about to do to the city. He/she had to explain why this change is good for the city and why exactly this thing is his/her top priority for current time. Usually that change was something eccentric, so that the speaker would had to think how to present it in as something beneficial and relevant.

So, here are the tasks (descriptions of aforementioned hypothetical changes to city life) from two recent TableTopics:

TableTopic one:

1. Turn city fountains into a free swimming pools with a hot water working all the year around.

Lemberg Toastmasters statistics for Second half-year of 2012

Lemberg Toastmasters
Second half-year of 2012 statistics

18 meetings
(average 3 per month)

9 prepared speeches by 5 speakers
(average 0.5 per meeting, 1.5 per month, ~1.8 per speaker)
And also 5 mini-speeches by 5 speakers

22 people were taking roles
Thank you all so much!

137 total roles participations
Including prepared speakers
(~7.6 roles per meeting, ~6.2 participations by one person for half-year or ~1 per month)

15 viewpoints, 15 table topics, 6 games

Visiting Lemberg toastmasters for one month you'd go to 3 meetings, hear 1 or 2 different speeches (and 1 mini-speech), participate in around 2 or 3 viewpoints and table topics, one game, and take a role once.

In general this half-year was much more about impromptu speaking. Unfortunately, we’re witnessing a steady decline in club attendance - from more than 200 role participations per half-year in 2011, to 153 in first half-year of 2012, to 137 now. Still, we have a little bit more viewpoints and table-topics in this half-year than in previous one, and 3 more games - two times more! - than previous half-year. We have less than half of previous half-year count in prepared speeches though, which is also 5 times less prepared speeches per month than in 2011.
We need to invite new people and increase attendance! That’s our imperative for 2013, so bring friends and otherwise spread the word where possible (-;


Notable standouts
- Top Speaker - Orest Chopko with 4 speeches!
No one else delivered more than 2 speeches, in fact most prepared speakers delivered only 1 speech during this half-year.
- Most versatile - Alex Sheremet took 10 different roles!
Mykola Makhin comes close with 9, everyone else took 7 and less different roles during this half-year.


Now, the details...

Crooked politicians - a humorous table topic

Greetings toastmasters,

Recently I've made a humorous table topic that seemed to worked pretty well in our club, so here I am sharing the idea with the world (-:

Every volunteer had a task of impersonating a crooked politician - in a humorous "tongue-in-cheek" way of course, nothing too political (which would be against the rules). The volunteer had a task that sounded like this: "You are a politician that did something very unethical or sometimes even criminal (explanation of the deed included). Now that new elections are coming how would you explain yourself to public to clean your name?"

The task had really made the volunteers to make an effort to think. And also as you can probably imagine some of the excuses our "guilty politicians" were making were hilarious (-: , so the table topic was both interesting and funny.

To share some fun here's a little teaser video:

There were seven tasks written in total, and I'm sharing the task texts here so you could use it in your club if you want to, or make your own based on those:

Lemberg Toastmasters info sheets online

Here are some informational materials for Lemberg Toastmasters that should answer most of the questions about the Club that outside people might have.

They are waiting for your IceBreakers

These orphan cups are looking for a new owners. They are waiting for your IceBreakers - don't disappoint them ;-)

Lemberg Toastmasters statistics for first half-year of 2012

Lemberg Toastmasters

First half-year of 2012 statistics

19 meetings 

(19/6 ~= 3.17 per month)

21 prepared speeches by 12 speakers

(~1.1 per meeting, 3.5 per month, ~1.75 per speaker)

26 people were taking roles

Thank you all so much!

153 total roles participations

Including prepared speakers 

(~8 roles per meeting, ~5.88 participations by one person for half-year or ~1 per month)

14 viewpoints, 12 table topics, 3 games and one debate

Visiting Lemberg toastmasters for one month you'd go to roughly 3 meetings, hear 4 different speeches, participate in around 2 viewpoints and 2 table topics, and take a role once.All in all this was a productive half-year!

Notable standouts
- Top Speaker - Orest Chopko with 5 speeches!
Noone else delivered more than 2 speeches
- Top Speech Evaluator - Alex Sheremet with 7 speech evaluations!
Noone else did more than 3

Ok, let’s get into the details...