Sunday, November 21, 2021

Mentoring Matters!

What are the advantages of joining Igniters? You can get get to your goals faster with the help of others. 
⭐ support ⭐ feedback ⭐ growth
How can we help?
Mentoring Coordinator Mona ✅
Mentors ✅ 
Mentoring Teams ✅ 
Meeting Mentor Buddies ✅
Mentor Moment Tips ✅
Specialty Mentors ✅
Mentoring Resources ✅
* Go to Member Resources - Mentoring to find out more!
A warm welcome to 3 new Igniters Sylvanus, Ellen, Petra! Its been terrific to have guests visit. 
We have been having many educational, inspiring, and creative speakers. Jessica (Hybrid Meetings), Mona (Mentoring Conversations & Leadership) Diane (Ice Breaker & yes how she broke her shoulder) Mary (Body Language), Dermot (History of Toilets Who knew?!)Trevor (Communication Styles). Evaluators for every speaker - developing their analytical skills Jey, Yvonne, Marvin, and Chris. Join us and develop your skills.

Contests & Circle of Gold 
We are very proud of Glen and Tracy for their efforts in competing in both the Tall Tales and Table Topics (Impromptu) How we laughed at their stories!! How Glen met his wife and what Tracy caught while fishing. Oh the tales!
Circle of Gold - peer Mentoring for contestants across 6 Divisions to raise their speaking level. Nandini and Trevor along with other evaluators offered ideas to help the speakers grow.
Igniters Facebook Group
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Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Celebration Time!

Just like the song, Celebration - we have alot to celebrate at Igniters! 
Area Contest
 A fun night on Fri Oct 29.  Ksenija was helping on tech, anonymous Igniters were judging, Diane, Vicky, Nandini were in the audience supporting our contestants. A huge thanks to all the Igniters who wrote congratulation notes.

Tall Tales Contest 
1. Tracy 
2. Glen
3. Amanda

Table Topics
1. Pearl
2. Samantha
3. Glen
Woo hoo!! Both Tracy and Glen will be competing for Tall Tales at the next level -  Division Contest Nov 19. Come cheer them on! 

Area Of the Year Awards
Awesome Igniters! 
Toastmaster of the Year - Mary 
Rookie of the Year - Tracy
Public Relations - Spoken Word 
Best of luck at the Division level

Halloween Meeting Oct 26
Trevor led a fun meeting with his beautiful locks of raven black and white hair! Word of the Day was mask and the challenge word disguise. Our guest also answered an impromptu topic and shared what she thought about scary movies.  Dermot gave a speech from Humorous Pathway and was good to know no animals were harmed in making this funny speech! 
We learned alot in Table Topics (impromptu speaking) hearing stories about scary movies, costumes, spirits, and favorite Halloweens. 
  • Where does a ghost go on vacation? Mali-boo
When you are not on vacation, come zoom with us  any Tuesday evening!