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| Word of the day: Indomitable |
I must admit, this is the first time that I cannot remember
the theme of the meeting even after reading it again and again. It is quite
mouthful.
I am convinced that my President who is an avid reader, came
out with this quote to challenge us, and at the same time.
Mr. President had a strong message to give to us this time,
and hence made it into the theme of this meeting, “There is only one way to
succeed at anything and this is to give everything”. A quote by Vince Lombardi.
In his ultimate vision, he hopes to see the members able to overcome the fear
of public speaking, and excel in communication and leadership skills.
The meeting today was overwhelmed by guest attendance which
shore up one-third of the total audience.
KL Loh, as the President also took the role of Toastmaster of
the Evening (TME). He greeted and welcomed the guest warmly like old friends.
Among the guests that came that day including, Adam from
Czech Republic, Rozita, the colleague of Chitirra, and a gentleman Chan.
After the meeting had been called to order, the role players
were ready in their positions. They were, Manish Jha as the Ah-Counter,
Abdulrahman as Grammarian, Wendy Sim as Timer and KT Chok as Table Topics®
Evaluator.
Our General Evaluator of the day was Area C1 Director, Julia
Leong, ACG, ALB, who is also a proud member of Money Mastery-KL.
The meeting kickstarted the first session, the Table Topics®
session which was led by Manish Jha as the Table Topics® Master. Table Topics®
session always charge up the adrenalin of the audiences, as we do not know who
would be ‘volunteered’ to take the challenge. However the fun and exciting
experience would eventually bring 3 members and a guest took the challenge to answer the
impromptu topics thrown to them. They were Adam, Chitirra, Hj Hashim and Victor
Wan.
When the challenging session is completed, the TME led us to
the second session, the prepared speech session. We had 4 speakers ready to
deliver their speeches.
The first speaker was Hai Liang, speaking on the ‘Effective
Coaching’ Pathway. He is a trainer and coach, the subject that he brought to
us, “Emotional Intelligence”, is a subject that is within his expertise.
The second speaker was Preston Ong, delivering another
interesting subject from the ‘Effective Coaching’ path, which was also related
to his personal experience. The speech was titled as “Overcoming the
Parkinson’s Law”.
The third speaker was CS Ong, PM1, presenting a project to
project ‘Effective Body Language’ from the ‘Presentation Mastery’ Pathway. He
spoke about a project experience that he was involved, “Exploring the Universe
at the Highest Energies Part 1”, a project that involved astronomy science.
The forth speaker is Ken Chan, DTM. He has started his 2nd
Pathways which is ‘Dynamic Leadership’. His title was “Lead with Ethics”, and
he had to lead a question and answer session.
After a short break for members to take a quick bite of our
refreshment, the meeting resume for the third session. Julia, our General
Evaluator took control of the evaluation session from the TME.
The first evaluator invited to stage was Table Topics ®
Evaluator, KT Chok, PM4.
The subsequent speech evaluators included CP Lau, DTM who
gave evaluation to Hai Liang; Hj Hashim, DTM who gave evaluation to Preston;
Chitirra, LD1 delivered her evaluation on CS Ong, PM1; and finally Ron Yeap,
ACS, ALB delivered his evaluation on Ken Chan, DTM.
All the 3 sessions had conducted the voting for the best
performers. As the evaluation session ended, the stage was handed back to the
TME. And TME was ready with the certificates to best performers.
Below are the list of the winners,
Best Table
Topics ® Speaker : Hj Hashim, DTM
Best Project
Speaker : Ken Chan, DTM
Best Speech
Evaluator : Chitirra,
LD1
The president also gave opportunities to the guests to give
their feedback. All of them seemed to agree that we had indeed run a very
enthralling meeting.
At the closing, the TME changed his hat back to a President
to give his closing remarks. As he kept on reminding us not to forget our
purpose to join Toastmasters, that we should make our effort worth in improving
ourselves through this friendly learning platform. And that summed up the
message behind the theme of the meeting.
Blog Writer: Ron Yeap, ACS, ALB
Regards,
MM-KL EXCO
2019/2020
