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| Word of the Day: Cordial |
ASAA
Chitirra, CC, called meeting to order at 7.15 am. She then led all members to
recite the toastmaster promise cheerfully.
A job well done true to the Toastmasters spirit.
President
KL Loh, ATMG, took over control with much enthusiasm and welcomes all guests
warmly. It is simply awesome that despite MCO and despite technical challenges,
we are still meeting online.
He
prays that we are all safe at home and stay focus on whatever we are
undertaking, as where focus goes, energy flows in line with the theme of the
night. All members and guests present then introduced themselves and readily share
their thoughts on the theme and word of the day setting a cordial and harmonious
mood for the meeting.
The
meeting them took a break of 10 minutes for our Muslim friends to break their
fast.
TME,
Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB, then took control and brief the meeting on the history of
the Toastmaster International and the heritage and strength of MMKL. Our club’s
strength lies in the strength and support of its senior members who are truly
committed and dedicated in ensuring that the club and its members will succeed
in their respective Toastmaster journey. He then invited the role players in the meeting, the Ah-Counter,
Grammarian, Timer and General Evaluator, Samuel Selvaraju, DTM to explain their
role for the benefit of our guests.
Up
next, our Table Topics® Master, C.S. Ong, PM1, took over. This interesting session requires impromptu speaking.
Getting guests and members to speak off
the cuff online is more challenging than at a meeting. Four sporting souls took
up the challenge and spoke very confidently and fluently on topics in harmony
to the theme.
Finally,
we moved to the prepared speeches session, the platform where toastmasters
learn to speak effectively and professionally from all aspects.
First
speaker, Hai Liang delivered his Level 1, Project 2.2 speech, Evaluation and
Feedback from Pathway: Effective Coaching. He shared with us the different concepts of pain with a
well organised meaningful speech.
He was able to engage with the audience with the Gifts of Pain.
Second
Speaker, Nantha Kumar delivered his level 1, project 2.2 speech, Evaluation and
Feedback from Pathway: Innovative Planning. He gave us an interesting concept of
the Invincible Team giving us an insight of the background of how much work is
required in making a project successful.
Third
Speaker, Rey Then, PM1, delivered her level 2 Project 1, Understanding your
leadership style under Pathway: Dynamic Leadership. She shared with us the
different types of leaderships and how we can adapt ourselves working comfortable
with various groups of people using different leadership styles.
Fourth
speaker is Datuk John Lau, DTM, on his Level 2, and Project 2: Understanding
Your Leadership style. He shared with us a personal story of how he was able to
overcome challenges in his leadership style by adopting a diplomatic approach.
Hence, he was able to reach his objectives and resolve a lot of issues by getting
across diplomatically. His whole
delivery is very dynamic and engaging.
I have
always enjoyed the prepared speeches session because there is always something
to learn and grow.
GE, Samuel Selvaraju, DTM took over the
Evaluation Session and explained the purpose and guidelines of this session to
all present punched with humour and jokes.
Table Topics® Evaluator, yours truly gave a
thorough and sincere evaluation to all the four very seasoned table topics
speakers for improvement from my perspective.
Our equally experienced and season Speech evaluators,
Chitirra, CC, EK Yeo, CC, CL, Manish, IP1, and KL Loh, ATMG, took turns to evaluate
Hai Liang, Nantha, Rey, PM1, and Datuk John, DTM, respectively; highlighting their strengths and
weaknesses followed with very good heartfelt suggestions for improvement in a
really diplomatic manner accompanied with a dash of humour. It was like a
series of mini speeches which I enjoyed listening.
GE, Samuel Selvaraju, DTM, was very impressed
with our team work and enjoyed himself thoroughly at our meeting. He felt that
our meeting was truly harmonious! However, he commented that he missed our nasi
lemak. He hopes to come again when real food is available.
Drum roll please, ta ta to rum rum….and these
are the winners of the night.
Best Table Topic Speaker : Ron Yeap,
ACG, ALB
Best Assigned
Speech : Datuk
Dr. John Lau, DTM
Best
Evaluator :
Chitirrra, CC
Digital certificates were given to all
winners!
The meeting ended with a vote of thanks to
all role players especially the GE. It was followed by a group photo session.
Stay Safe! Stay Focus! Energy Flows!
Blog Writer: Julia Leong, ACG, ALB
Regards,
MM-KL EXCO
2019/2020
