ENTHUSIASM
Norman Vincent Peale once said “Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you will become an excited person and be merry always. Life will take on a new zest, with deeper interests and greater meaning. You can talk, think, and act yourself into enthusiasm or dullness and into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and a surging depth of joy”.
You can succeed at almost anything for which you have limitless enthusiasm. The world belongs to the enthusiastic. A major difference between people is their level of enthusiasm. Your enthusiasm reflects your reserves, your unexploited resources and perhaps your future. You will never rise to great heights without joy and enthusiasm.
No one keeps up his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts and new vision. It’s your own fault if your enthusiasm is gone. You have failed to feed it. What’s enthusiasm? Henry Chester answers, “Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action” Helen Keller said “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.” Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. It isn’t our position, but our disposition the makes us happy.
May I take this opportunity to wish the Christian “Merry Christmas” and to all of you a very Happy New Year.
Hashim Adnan
23 Dec 2008
HO..HO..HO.. EVERYONE were in the christmas spirit and we had a really enjoyable and fantastic christmas meeting. The turn up were good with almost everyone wore red attire as requested by the TME Huey Yee. The meeting started on time by the ASAA, Sanjay who led us in reciting the Toastmasters Promise and for a first timer, Sanjay did his job very well. Well done Sanjay.
The President took over from Sanjay wishing everyone merry christmas and he delivered the above invocation to the delights of everyone present. The President also expressed the gratitude and appreciation on behalf of the club, to KL Loh, ATM-G, and Mechmar Bhd., for their generous donation of RM2000 to the club fund as token of appreciation for us conducting the speech-craft workshop for the management staff of Mechmar.
The TME, Huey Yee, ACB, CL, being an experienced MC led the audience through the meeting with full of fun and laughter in the true meaning of X'mas spirit. Calista Chan and Sook Meng delivered their fifth project speeches, very much enjoyed by the audience. Gean Lau thrilled the audience with her hello, hello phone speech. and to top it all, much to the delights and appreciation of the audience, Cindy Foong did her 10th project speech with an inspiring speech urging everyone to look into the mirror and examine ourselves what have we really contributed anything to life. With the year 2008 coming to an end she urged everyone to change and become a postive minded person and to give commitment with full of conviction and to contribute to the club for us to maintain the standard excellence in the DCP goals of the club. With that speech Cindy Foong was declared the Competent Communicator, the first to achieve it for this term, and she was given a standing ovation. Kudos and congatulations to Cindy Foong, CC. We must give Cindy a special salute because she is a true example of a toastmaster with full of commitment, tenacity, and conviction and the courage to conquer the many hurdles in her life and because of her strong commitment she managed to complete the required CC assigments in FOUR years.
Ordinarily and in most cases, many would have given up and left the club. You are a fantastic and wonderful toastmaster, COMPETENT COMMUNICATOR CINDY FOONG. WELL DONE!
Many thanks goes to Tony Lim from Friendship TMC who was the General Evaluator of the evening. He was in full praise of the club and it's members with our high standard and quality meeting in all aspects of toastmastering. Congratulations to Money-Masteryans. Kudos and Keep it up.
The best awards for the evening goes to KL Loh, Best Evaluator, Sook Meng, Best Project Speaker, and President Hj Hashim, Best Table-Topic Speaker. Congratulations to the winners.
The meeting end up with everyone exchanging christmas gifts much to the joy and fun of everyone wishing each other Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year.
WISHING ONE AND ALL 1 YEAR OF HAPPINESS
12 MONTHS OF PROSPERITY,
52 WEEKS OF SUCCESS,
365 DAYS OF GOOD LUCK,
8760 HOURS OF GLADNESS,
525600 MINUTES OF GOODNESS
MAY YOU ENJOY EVERY SECOND OF THIS GREAT NEW YEAR 2009 WITH YOUR LOVED ONES!!!
MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH A WORLD OF HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH,
PROSPERITY, PEACE & SUCCESS THROUGHOUT THE NEW YEAR..........
ALL THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
An idea's worth is directly proportional to the opposition created.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Posted by:
Hj Naburi Idin
VPPR
MINUTES OF EXCO MEETING HELD ON WED 17 DEC. 2008 AT A&W PJ
On a pleasant Wednesday evening, the masterminds of Money Mastery KL Toastmaster Club gathered together at A&W in PJ for their exco meeting. The team of five was led none other than our inspiring president Tun Haji Hashim. Also present were the ingeniously humorous VPPR Haji Naburi, evermore dedicated VPM EK Yeo, brilliant and insightful Treasury KH Song and of course, the self-proclaimed diligent Secretary Gean Lau.
This Exco meeting was a follow-up on the few points highlighted during the TLI meeting on the previous Saturday. President Haji Hashim started off the meeting by addressing the immediate challenge of the club- sourcing for the right meeting venue. By 'right' I mean easily accessible and reasonably priced meeting venues. Ideas were immediately thrown into the air- using other club's meeting venue but on a different date or time; sourcing for other available meeting rooms in office blocks or association buildings such as WIM, MIA, or MIM; returning to the comfortable but pricey Shah Motel function rooms; or settling with the current venue but looking at other possible ways to increase the club's income. Treasury KH Song will proceed to explore those options together with our club adviser, Francis Ng.
Next on the menu was the need to increase bonding among club members, through organizing social activities and outings for the members. Our VPPR Haji Naburi agreed to the idea of setting up a committee to organize some social outings and also to the suggestion of our President- putting together a periodical newsletter to provide latest news updates of our club and members. The idea of having more joint meetings and club visiting trips was applauded by the team as a brilliant way to boost networking among our members also with other club's members.
In between burgers and fries, the point of membership retention plan was addressed. VPM EK Yeo promised to follow up with the sleeping members on encouraging them to join our fortnightly meeting again. As highlighted in the TLI meeting, the idea of having a name tag for our members and guests during the meeting would certainly make networking process easier. After all, having to keep repeating and spelling your name (if you happen to have a very special name) to everyone in the meeting is such a daunting task. VPM EK Yeo will follow up on getting ready the name tags.
With that consensus we moved on to the next item on the list- carrying out community services. After the highly enjoyable and educational speechcraft program conducted by our club with Mechmar Bhd. senior executives and management staffs, the excos are extremely motivated to do another speechcraft program, or perhaps a youth program next year. Hmm, if that realizes, it would be an interesting project for the club next year. Though it requires significant amount of effort in planning and organizing, the outcome is totally worth it! The opportunity of networking, the process of learning from and guiding others, sharing our passion about toastmaster-ing with non-toastmasters are truly satisfying!
After discussing all the above, the group revisited and reassessed the club educational goals of 2008-2009. Though we are proud and encouraged with current achievement of 5 DCP points and being the first in Area W1 to achieve distinguished status, we still need to put ourselves out for accomplishing the remaining goals. Some uncertainties are blotting out our chance in achieving the goal no. 2 (Earn an additional 2 CCs) and no. 5 (Earn one CL, ALB, ALS or DTM). At this point, the exco and members are advised to be as aggressive as ever and go the extra mile to bring home our long defended President Distinguished Status. Few suggestions were raised to help our club achieving the goals, such as showcasing our DCP progress chart at every meeting to boost up the engagement level of our members, conducting a speech marathon to provide our members with more speech opportunities, inviting special guest speakers to share some guidance and tips on public speaking, etiquette, humourous speaking, etc to improve members' communication and leadership skills.
As the exco meeting comes to an end, everyone in the team acknowledges the fact that this is indeed a challenging term for Money Mastery KL Toastmasters Club. Nevertheless, as what they always say: when there is a will, there is a way. With that in mind, the exco meeting adjourned at around 9pm, and everyone in the team brought home their own action plan.
Recorded by:
Gean Lau,
Secretary
Dated 17th Dec., 2008
Posted by Hj Naburi,
VPPR
BREAKING NEWS !!!!!
Below is the update of the DCP goal:
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| Comments to date |
| Goal 1 | Earn two Competent Communicators (CCs) | - TM Cindy Foong - TM Gean Lau | Speech 9 Speech 5 |
| Goal 2 | Earn an additional two CCs | - TM Sharon Siow - TM Calista Chan - TM Erica - TM Kok Sook Meng
| Speech 4 Speech 4 Speech 4 Speech 4 |
| Goal 3 | Earn one Advanced Communicator (AC Bronze, AC Silver or AC Gold) | - CTM ALS Paul Tan | Paul lost his manual, promised to re-do all the speeches in the missing manual within this term |
| Goal 4 | Earn one additional AC Bronze, AC Silver or AC Gold | - CTM CL Haji Hashim | Work in progress |
| Goal 5 | Earn one CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver, or DTM | - CTM, ALS Paul Tan | Achieved |
| Goal 6 | Earn one additional CL, AL Bronze, AL Silver, or DTM | - CTM CL Haji Hashim | Achieved |
I have full confidence in Cindy and Gean in achieving their CC this term based on their commitment and consistent past performance. :)
Main challenge is to get another 2 CCs. Working as a team, I would appreciate if you could help to encourage and urge Sharon, Calista, Erica and Sook Meng to achieve their CC before 30 June 2009.
I wish to highlight that Calista will not renew her membership as she is having difficulties in coming to our club from Sg. Long.
In addition, please help to put pressure to Paul in achieving his ACB whenever you see him :P
Thanks!
Siew Yin
That's the latest report from our VPE.
OUR CLUB IS THE FIRST TO ACHIEVE DISTINGUISHED STATUS IN AREA W1 AND WE RECEIVE RECOGNITION FROM THE AREA GOVERNOR SACHIT. THANK YOU AREA GOVERNOR.
WELL MEMBERS THAT MEANS WE HAVE ACHIEVED 5 DCP POINTS BUT ACCORDING TO FRANCIS WE HAVE ACHIEVED 7 DCP POINTS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MEMBERS.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED TO COMPLETE THEIR ASSIGNMENTS ON ANY OF THE MANUALS THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO DCP POINTS, PLEASE BE REMINDED TO COMPLETE THEM BEFORE JUNE 2009 TO ENSURE "PRESIDENT DISTINGUISHED STATUS" TO THE CLUB. IF YOU THINK THE NEXT 12 MEETINGS IS NOT ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE THE SPEAKING SLOTS NEEDED FOR YOUR SPEECH PROJECTS PLEASE CONTACT FRANCIS TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR YOU TO DO YOUR PRESENTATIONS AT OTHER CLUB MEETINGS.
THE EXCOS HAD THEIR MEETING LAST WEDNESDAY 17TH DEC., 2008. A FEW THINGS HAVE BEEN PLANNED FOR THE NEXT HALF OF THIS TERM TO MAKE THE YEAR 2009 AN EXCITING AND ENJOYABLE AND HAPPY TO EVERY MEMBER.
IF ANY MEMBER HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO VOICE IT OUT IN OUR BLOG OR YAHOO GROUPS EMAIL.
THE PRESIDENT REPORTED TO THE EXCOS THAT KL LOH, ATM-G REPRESENTING MECHMAR BHD. DONATED RM2000 TO OUR CLUB TREASURY AS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION FOR THE JOB WELL DONE BY OUR MEMBERS LED BY THE PRESIDENT TO CONDUCT THE SPEECHCRAFT WORKSHOP FOR THE MANAGEMENT STAFF OF MECHMAR BHD. A MILLION THANKS TO KL LOH AND MECHMAR BHD.
That's the latest report from our VPE.
OUR CLUB IS THE FIRST TO ACHIEVE DISTINGUISHED STATUS IN AREA W1 AND WE RECEIVE RECOGNITION FROM THE AREA GOVERNOR SACHIT. THANK YOU AREA GOVERNOR.
WELL MEMBERS THAT MEANS WE HAVE ACHIEVED 5 DCP POINTS BUT ACCORDING TO FRANCIS WE HAVE ACHIEVED 7 DCP POINTS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL MEMBERS.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE COMMITTED TO COMPLETE THEIR ASSIGNMENTS ON ANY OF THE MANUALS THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO DCP POINTS, PLEASE BE REMINDED TO COMPLETE THEM BEFORE JUNE 2009 TO ENSURE "PRESIDENT DISTINGUISHED STATUS" TO THE CLUB. IF YOU THINK THE NEXT 12 MEETINGS IS NOT ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE THE SPEAKING SLOTS NEEDED FOR YOUR SPEECH PROJECTS PLEASE CONTACT FRANCIS TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR YOU TO DO YOUR PRESENTATIONS AT OTHER CLUB MEETINGS.
THE EXCOS HAD THEIR MEETING LAST WEDNESDAY 17TH DEC., 2008. A FEW THINGS HAVE BEEN PLANNED FOR THE NEXT HALF OF THIS TERM TO MAKE THE YEAR 2009 AN EXCITING AND ENJOYABLE AND HAPPY TO EVERY MEMBER.
IF ANY MEMBER HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO VOICE IT OUT IN OUR BLOG OR YAHOO GROUPS EMAIL.
THE PRESIDENT REPORTED TO THE EXCOS THAT KL LOH, ATM-G REPRESENTING MECHMAR BHD. DONATED RM2000 TO OUR CLUB TREASURY AS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION FOR THE JOB WELL DONE BY OUR MEMBERS LED BY THE PRESIDENT TO CONDUCT THE SPEECHCRAFT WORKSHOP FOR THE MANAGEMENT STAFF OF MECHMAR BHD. A MILLION THANKS TO KL LOH AND MECHMAR BHD.
Why English is used in IT
Why We Use English for IT
Why Malaysian Government insists on using English for math and science?
This is because the whole world uses the language as an information and/or
technology language. How dangerous it will be if we try to use Bahasa ,
especially in school. See example below:-
Hardware = barangkeras
Software = baranglembut
Joystick = batang gembira
Plug and Play = cucuk dan main
Port = lubang
Server = pelayan
Client = pelanggan
Try to translate this:
ENGLISH:
That server gives a plug and play service to the client using either
hardware or software joystick. The joystick goes into the port of the
client.
Now in BAHASA:
Pelayan itu memberi pelanggannya layanan cucuk dan main dengan menggunakan
batang gembira jenis keras atau lembut. Batang gembira itu akan dimasukkan
ke dalam lubang pelanggan.
Now you know...why?
contributed by KL Loh
Posted by Hj Naburi
Why Malaysian Government insists on using English for math and science?
This is because the whole world uses the language as an information and/or
technology language. How dangerous it will be if we try to use Bahasa ,
especially in school. See example below:-
Hardware = barangkeras
Software = baranglembut
Joystick = batang gembira
Plug and Play = cucuk dan main
Port = lubang
Server = pelayan
Client = pelanggan
Try to translate this:
ENGLISH:
That server gives a plug and play service to the client using either
hardware or software joystick. The joystick goes into the port of the
client.
Now in BAHASA:
Pelayan itu memberi pelanggannya layanan cucuk dan main dengan menggunakan
batang gembira jenis keras atau lembut. Batang gembira itu akan dimasukkan
ke dalam lubang pelanggan.
Now you know...why?
contributed by KL Loh
Posted by Hj Naburi
BE KIND TO OTHERS AND SAY GOOD THINGS
.THAT'S the theme of our meeting held last tuesday 9th Dec., 2008. This is the second last meeting of the year. The attendance was good and we had two guests, Mr and Mrs Chia brought in by Francis Ng, DTM. Based on the theme above, the President, Hj Hashim, CC, CL, gave his usual Presidential invocation in his opoening remarks. This is his inspirational invocation:
"THINK THANKS"
Please be reminded fellow members and readers, be aggressively thankful.
When it comes to living, do you take things for granted or take them with gratitude?
Thanksgiving is the attitude of a productive life.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks in an expeditious manner.
How long has it been since you thanked those closest to you?
So, go to your beloved ones and say "THANK YOU"
Thanksgiving, you will find, creates power to your life because it expeditiously opens the generators of your heart to respond gratefully, to receive joyfully and to react creatively.
The person who forgets the language of gratitrude will never find themselves on speaking terms with happiness.
Dwight moody said, "be humble or you'll stumble" Henry Ward Beecher pointed out, "A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves".
So think thanks and be kind to others and say good things.
Please be reminded fellow members and readers, be aggressively thankful.
When it comes to living, do you take things for granted or take them with gratitude?
Thanksgiving is the attitude of a productive life.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks in an expeditious manner.
How long has it been since you thanked those closest to you?
So, go to your beloved ones and say "THANK YOU"
Thanksgiving, you will find, creates power to your life because it expeditiously opens the generators of your heart to respond gratefully, to receive joyfully and to react creatively.
The person who forgets the language of gratitrude will never find themselves on speaking terms with happiness.
Dwight moody said, "be humble or you'll stumble" Henry Ward Beecher pointed out, "A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves".
So think thanks and be kind to others and say good things.
The timing of the meeting was perfect and the events went according to schedules. The general evaluator, DTM Sivalingam from D'Utama TMC was very impressed and so was the 14 year old daughter of Marcus Chee, Merrilyn and gave high praise to the way we conduct our meeting. Kudos to all and keep it up.
The assigned ASAA, Khoshim CC, was absent and he was graciously replaced by Siew Yin, the ever efficient VPE, who did a very good job of making sure that everyone took their seats on time. Well done Siew Yin.
Paul Tan in his usual antics, was the TME and he coducted the meeting very well with his encouraging comments on the speakers. They were six of them. All spoke very well. Derrick Teh and Julia Leong delivered their ice-breakers speech. The audience was so impressed with Julia who spoke like a seasoned toastmaster was voted the best project speaker. Congratulations to Julia and Kudos, you are a champion speaker in the making. The new toastmasters who were graduates of the speechcraft from Mechmar really made their presence felt as they dominate the project speech agenda. Kok Sook Meng gave the audience an early advice of how to prepare for retirement with her "My Golden Home: My Dream" speech. Teh Yi Ling, dubbed as the number two chilli padi of the club after Huey Yee, telling us to stick to our life's path with her "Love Your Path". Sanjay another member from Mechmar also performed his duty as a time-keeper for the evening very well. I am sure KL Loh their big boss, was proud of his staff. Congratulations and kudos to all of you from Mechmar. Sook Meng is so enthusiastic to finish her ten speeches that I noticed she had booked her speaking slots at every meeting until April next year. Well done Sook Meng. I hope your enthusiasm will catch on with the rest of the members and the President can be rest assured that the DCP award is already in the bag.
We were warned by Cindy Foong that mother earth is in great danger in the wake of global warming, for it takes only six degrees celcius in increase temperature to put the whole world under water. Everyone was happy to see the eagerness of Cindy to complete her CC manual and by the next meeting she will deliver her tenth speech and be declared a Competent Communicator, CC. Kudos to Cindy and we look forward to your final speech.
Marcus Chee, ACB delivered his Advance Communication Story Telling project module #3 titled "the Colour of rights" in his dramatic manner and was well evaluated by KL Loh, ATM-G who shared the same passion and admiration of Civil Right hero of the late Rev Dr. Martin Luther King who inspired Barrack Obama, the President Elect of the USA. KL Loh was voted the best evaluator of the meeting. Well done to both of you.
The General Evaluator, DTM Sivalingam was a polished and very seasoned toastmaster and his detailed evaluation report was well appreciated by the members and we should take note of his advice to make our meeting a perfect and faultless meeting. However I promised Sivalingam for a good nasi lemak, unfortunately our "caterer" Paul Tan failed to supply it on the excuse that the "cook" went on strike and absconded to Kota Baru, Kelantan. So we forgave him for Francis took quick action to provide us with an assortment of "buffet" dishes and a few of us gobble up to their hearts content to overcome their " refugee-like " hunger. Luckily Huey Yee's birthday cake was spared till the end of the meeting and our "MIA" long lost member MK Low helped to cut the cake and sing Happy Birthday to the birthday chilli padi.
The next meeting which will be two days before Christmas, on 23rd December, the TME Huey Yee reminded everyone to bring a RM10 gift for exchange in the Christmas spirit and to celebrate X'mas everyone is advised to come in either green or red attire. Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year to everyone.
Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
The assigned ASAA, Khoshim CC, was absent and he was graciously replaced by Siew Yin, the ever efficient VPE, who did a very good job of making sure that everyone took their seats on time. Well done Siew Yin.
Paul Tan in his usual antics, was the TME and he coducted the meeting very well with his encouraging comments on the speakers. They were six of them. All spoke very well. Derrick Teh and Julia Leong delivered their ice-breakers speech. The audience was so impressed with Julia who spoke like a seasoned toastmaster was voted the best project speaker. Congratulations to Julia and Kudos, you are a champion speaker in the making. The new toastmasters who were graduates of the speechcraft from Mechmar really made their presence felt as they dominate the project speech agenda. Kok Sook Meng gave the audience an early advice of how to prepare for retirement with her "My Golden Home: My Dream" speech. Teh Yi Ling, dubbed as the number two chilli padi of the club after Huey Yee, telling us to stick to our life's path with her "Love Your Path". Sanjay another member from Mechmar also performed his duty as a time-keeper for the evening very well. I am sure KL Loh their big boss, was proud of his staff. Congratulations and kudos to all of you from Mechmar. Sook Meng is so enthusiastic to finish her ten speeches that I noticed she had booked her speaking slots at every meeting until April next year. Well done Sook Meng. I hope your enthusiasm will catch on with the rest of the members and the President can be rest assured that the DCP award is already in the bag.
We were warned by Cindy Foong that mother earth is in great danger in the wake of global warming, for it takes only six degrees celcius in increase temperature to put the whole world under water. Everyone was happy to see the eagerness of Cindy to complete her CC manual and by the next meeting she will deliver her tenth speech and be declared a Competent Communicator, CC. Kudos to Cindy and we look forward to your final speech.
Marcus Chee, ACB delivered his Advance Communication Story Telling project module #3 titled "the Colour of rights" in his dramatic manner and was well evaluated by KL Loh, ATM-G who shared the same passion and admiration of Civil Right hero of the late Rev Dr. Martin Luther King who inspired Barrack Obama, the President Elect of the USA. KL Loh was voted the best evaluator of the meeting. Well done to both of you.
The General Evaluator, DTM Sivalingam was a polished and very seasoned toastmaster and his detailed evaluation report was well appreciated by the members and we should take note of his advice to make our meeting a perfect and faultless meeting. However I promised Sivalingam for a good nasi lemak, unfortunately our "caterer" Paul Tan failed to supply it on the excuse that the "cook" went on strike and absconded to Kota Baru, Kelantan. So we forgave him for Francis took quick action to provide us with an assortment of "buffet" dishes and a few of us gobble up to their hearts content to overcome their " refugee-like " hunger. Luckily Huey Yee's birthday cake was spared till the end of the meeting and our "MIA" long lost member MK Low helped to cut the cake and sing Happy Birthday to the birthday chilli padi.
The next meeting which will be two days before Christmas, on 23rd December, the TME Huey Yee reminded everyone to bring a RM10 gift for exchange in the Christmas spirit and to celebrate X'mas everyone is advised to come in either green or red attire. Happy Christmas and Prosperous New Year to everyone.
Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
Photo, Photo and more PHOTO....
First day of speechcraft
More photos for first day, please click here
Second day of speechcraft
For more photo on day 2, please click here
Posted by : Calista Chan
SPEECHCRAFT PROGRAM AT MECHMAR CORP BHD
"Dear Members of MMKL,TM,
The Speechcraft Programme was a great success and it made all of us very happy.
1) I had benefited in making new friends and increased my bondage with fellow members.
2) Discovery of new skills, like How to Motivate Someone Reluctant to prepare and give his 1st speech.
3)Felt so happy when they did the speeches successfully. The best moment was when they end up a much better person and speaker, upon completion of the course and join us.
4) Calista's Ice Breaker speech, done on stage , did it very well, made me feel proud of her success and her courage and confidence.CONGRATULATIONS! Calista.
5) The help of Siew Yin and Huey Yee to help Calista and Erica with the proper use of English, grammar and Rhetorical Devices in their 4th Speech - How to say it - made Calista the BEST SPEAKER in our meeting on 25th Nov,2008. ERICA also did very well.Erica,Keep up the good work. Thank You - Siew Yin and Huey Yee, you also did a great job in the Speech Craft Programme.I appreciate both of you,thanks very much.
6) I was very impress with President Hj Hashim's speeches, delivered in a very professional way with dignity, excellent use of words,very expressive, spoken with feelings of joy.
CONGRATULATION! President Haji Hashim.Many members and participants said the same.
7) If I go on expressing my gratitude and appreciations, It will take me many hours, I will cut short my email.For the rest of you A Big THANK YOU!
Special Thanks to ACG KL Loh for the GRAND OPPORTUNITY and DTM Francis Ng for coming up with the very detail programme.To others,Thank you very much for being my friend.
Bye! SMILE and see you soon,"
Paul Tan
Paul Tan has said it in his email dated 27th Nov. 2008, to show his appreciation and to let everyone knows how successful was the speechcraft that we had conducted for the management staff and senior executives of Mechmar Corporation Bhd on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2008. For the record and references of the club I posted Paul Tan's message into the blog. Paul Tan summed it very well indeed. Thank you Paul Tan.
Just to add a few more points, according to Francis Ng who had experienced many speechcrafts before, this speechcraft was the best so far that he has attended and helped organise. Our profound appreciation and gratitude off course goes to Francis Ng who spent sleepless nights and more than 40 hours (according to him)to come up with the two-day speechcraft program for Mechmar Corporation. This program can be adapted as a template for future programs and can be customised to suit the needs of any organisation that wishes to organise such program for their staff and members.
Our profound appreciation and gratitude also goes to our ATM-G KL Loh who is the CEO of Mechmar Corporation who gave us the golden opportunity and who also gave us the the confidence and trust to our team to conduct the program for his company. Our team led by Francis and President Hj Hashim, as the Chief Coordinator, comprised of Hj Naburi, Paul Tan, Tan Ben Hoe, Liew Siew Yin, Chong Huey Yee, E. K. Yeo, Gean Lau, Janice Ooi, Calista, Erica, James, Cindy Foong, Jeff Saw and Khoshim and of course KL Loh who took up the roles of facilitators and time-keepers. Everyone performed to their level best and gave unselfish probono service to make the program a great success. Kudos, thank you and congratulations to all of you.
On the first day of the program, there were 23 paticipants including two lady managers from Jakarta and Medan and one manager from Pasir Gudang Johor. The program was so well coordinated like professionals and we proved to those involved, speechcrafters and facilitators alike, of the importance of time management as the events were conducted right on the dot according to the stipulated time. Within two days the speechcrafters were assigned to prepare and present five speeches and to a many of them it was a mind boggling exercises and they come up a better speakers at the end of the two days. As has been proven seven of them comprising of Julia, Sanjay, Sook Meng, Shirley, Teh Yi Ling, Bay Tan and Soon attended our meeting on the 25th Nov., 2008, two days after the progam. I observed that Sook Meng and Yi Ling had booked their slots to do their project speech no four in our next meeting to be held on 9th Dec., 2008. Kudos to both of you. This is indeed the best pay off to all of us who helped conduct the speechcraft program with great success.
The Speechcraft Programme was a great success and it made all of us very happy.
1) I had benefited in making new friends and increased my bondage with fellow members.
2) Discovery of new skills, like How to Motivate Someone Reluctant to prepare and give his 1st speech.
3)Felt so happy when they did the speeches successfully. The best moment was when they end up a much better person and speaker, upon completion of the course and join us.
4) Calista's Ice Breaker speech, done on stage , did it very well, made me feel proud of her success and her courage and confidence.CONGRATULATIONS! Calista.
5) The help of Siew Yin and Huey Yee to help Calista and Erica with the proper use of English, grammar and Rhetorical Devices in their 4th Speech - How to say it - made Calista the BEST SPEAKER in our meeting on 25th Nov,2008. ERICA also did very well.Erica,Keep up the good work. Thank You - Siew Yin and Huey Yee, you also did a great job in the Speech Craft Programme.I appreciate both of you,thanks very much.
6) I was very impress with President Hj Hashim's speeches, delivered in a very professional way with dignity, excellent use of words,very expressive, spoken with feelings of joy.
CONGRATULATION! President Haji Hashim.Many members and participants said the same.
7) If I go on expressing my gratitude and appreciations, It will take me many hours, I will cut short my email.For the rest of you A Big THANK YOU!
Special Thanks to ACG KL Loh for the GRAND OPPORTUNITY and DTM Francis Ng for coming up with the very detail programme.To others,Thank you very much for being my friend.
Bye! SMILE and see you soon,"
Paul Tan
Paul Tan has said it in his email dated 27th Nov. 2008, to show his appreciation and to let everyone knows how successful was the speechcraft that we had conducted for the management staff and senior executives of Mechmar Corporation Bhd on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2008. For the record and references of the club I posted Paul Tan's message into the blog. Paul Tan summed it very well indeed. Thank you Paul Tan.
Just to add a few more points, according to Francis Ng who had experienced many speechcrafts before, this speechcraft was the best so far that he has attended and helped organise. Our profound appreciation and gratitude off course goes to Francis Ng who spent sleepless nights and more than 40 hours (according to him)to come up with the two-day speechcraft program for Mechmar Corporation. This program can be adapted as a template for future programs and can be customised to suit the needs of any organisation that wishes to organise such program for their staff and members.
Our profound appreciation and gratitude also goes to our ATM-G KL Loh who is the CEO of Mechmar Corporation who gave us the golden opportunity and who also gave us the the confidence and trust to our team to conduct the program for his company. Our team led by Francis and President Hj Hashim, as the Chief Coordinator, comprised of Hj Naburi, Paul Tan, Tan Ben Hoe, Liew Siew Yin, Chong Huey Yee, E. K. Yeo, Gean Lau, Janice Ooi, Calista, Erica, James, Cindy Foong, Jeff Saw and Khoshim and of course KL Loh who took up the roles of facilitators and time-keepers. Everyone performed to their level best and gave unselfish probono service to make the program a great success. Kudos, thank you and congratulations to all of you.
On the first day of the program, there were 23 paticipants including two lady managers from Jakarta and Medan and one manager from Pasir Gudang Johor. The program was so well coordinated like professionals and we proved to those involved, speechcrafters and facilitators alike, of the importance of time management as the events were conducted right on the dot according to the stipulated time. Within two days the speechcrafters were assigned to prepare and present five speeches and to a many of them it was a mind boggling exercises and they come up a better speakers at the end of the two days. As has been proven seven of them comprising of Julia, Sanjay, Sook Meng, Shirley, Teh Yi Ling, Bay Tan and Soon attended our meeting on the 25th Nov., 2008, two days after the progam. I observed that Sook Meng and Yi Ling had booked their slots to do their project speech no four in our next meeting to be held on 9th Dec., 2008. Kudos to both of you. This is indeed the best pay off to all of us who helped conduct the speechcraft program with great success.
SPEECH BLOOPERS MADE BY PRESIDENT BUSH
GWB - We will miss him.......sort of
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- George W. Bush
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- George W. Bush
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one
word is 'to be prepared'."
- George W. Bush
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the
future."
- George W.Bush
"The future will be better tomorrow."
- George W. Bush
"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- George W. Bush
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- George W. Bush
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm
commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- George W. Bush
"Public speaking is very easy."
- George W. Bush
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- George W. Bush
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- George W. Bush
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- George W. Bush
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
- George W. Bush
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
- George W. Bush
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- George W. Bush
Contributed by: Hj Hashim Adnan, CC., CL
(President)
Posted By: Hj Naburi Idin, CTM.,CL
(VPPR)
"The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country."
- George W. Bush
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
- George W. Bush
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one
word is 'to be prepared'."
- George W. Bush
"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the
future."
- George W.Bush
"The future will be better tomorrow."
- George W. Bush
"We're going to have the best educated American people in the world."
- George W. Bush
"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- George W. Bush
"We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm
commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe."
- George W. Bush
"Public speaking is very easy."
- George W. Bush
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
- George W. Bush
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- George W. Bush
"For NASA, space is still a high priority."
- George W. Bush
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
- George W. Bush
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in
our air and water that are doing it."
- George W. Bush
"It's time for the human race to enter the solar system."
- George W. Bush
Contributed by: Hj Hashim Adnan, CC., CL
(President)
Posted By: Hj Naburi Idin, CTM.,CL
(VPPR)
AWESOME MEETING OF 162ND -25TH NOV. 2008
It was really an awesome and fantastic meeting that we had last night. There were 21 members turned up for the meeting plus 7 new members from Mechmar Bhd who made up of the speechcraft graduates that we had conducted over the weekend. So WELCOME to Julia, Sanjay, Sook Meng, Shiley, Soon, Yi Ling and Bay Tan to the Club. We also have as our guests Joseph and Shireen, Uncle Kasi (an old timer toastmaster from Penang), Jaleen and KM. Our AGW1, CC, CL Satchit Anantha was gracious in playing the role of General Evaluator. Altogether there were 34 attendants at the meeting last night. I believe this is the biggest turn out so far at our club meeting. Congratulations to all who made the meeting awesome and successful. All our guests were very happy and very impressed with the proceedings of the meeting.
We also welcome the presence of our newest member, Duncan to the club who took part in the Table Topic sessions conducted by Victor Wan. 5 speakers took the challenges to think and speak on their feet on topics that was quite tough given by Victor. But the speakers did their best especially Sook Meng and Duncan who are new to this session. Kudos to both of them.
The ASAA's role was taken by Aziz who perform his duty in his usual jovial manner and he always brings laughter to the audience whenever he had the chance to stand in front and speak, especially during the Table Topic session of which he was one of the participant. However congratulations to Paul Tan who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award.
The President, last night in his usual manner, gave us an inspiring opening message of "Lift People UP & Respect Them." which I had posted in the Blog. The President also played the role of Toastmaster of the Evening and it goes without saying that his manner of conducting the meeting was superb. The meeting went through with full of laughter and fun right to the end with the added humor of Hj Naburi and the GE Satchit who made everyone laugh right through the evaluation sessions.
The seasoned evaluators of Tan Ben Hoe, KL Loh and Francis did their speakers justice in giving fair and useful feedback to Calista, Erica and Cindy Foong. The three speakers gave inspiring speeches of their experiences either through Cyberspace, or the reality of selling experience or the trip to South Africa with its inclement weather. Calista's speech really touched everyone's heart and she was voted the best project speaker of the evening.
All in all it was a night full of fun and laughter whilst we help each other to improve our communication skills and true to the motto of Friends Helping Friends Succeed. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THE MEETING WORTH ATTENDING. KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU.
Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
We also welcome the presence of our newest member, Duncan to the club who took part in the Table Topic sessions conducted by Victor Wan. 5 speakers took the challenges to think and speak on their feet on topics that was quite tough given by Victor. But the speakers did their best especially Sook Meng and Duncan who are new to this session. Kudos to both of them.
The ASAA's role was taken by Aziz who perform his duty in his usual jovial manner and he always brings laughter to the audience whenever he had the chance to stand in front and speak, especially during the Table Topic session of which he was one of the participant. However congratulations to Paul Tan who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award.
The President, last night in his usual manner, gave us an inspiring opening message of "Lift People UP & Respect Them." which I had posted in the Blog. The President also played the role of Toastmaster of the Evening and it goes without saying that his manner of conducting the meeting was superb. The meeting went through with full of laughter and fun right to the end with the added humor of Hj Naburi and the GE Satchit who made everyone laugh right through the evaluation sessions.
The seasoned evaluators of Tan Ben Hoe, KL Loh and Francis did their speakers justice in giving fair and useful feedback to Calista, Erica and Cindy Foong. The three speakers gave inspiring speeches of their experiences either through Cyberspace, or the reality of selling experience or the trip to South Africa with its inclement weather. Calista's speech really touched everyone's heart and she was voted the best project speaker of the evening.
All in all it was a night full of fun and laughter whilst we help each other to improve our communication skills and true to the motto of Friends Helping Friends Succeed. CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO MADE THE MEETING WORTH ATTENDING. KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU.
Posted by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
LIFT PEOPLE UP & RESPECT THEM
In line with the theme of the Day: "Respecting Each Other", the President, CC, CL Hj Hashim at our 162nd meeting last night the 25th. Nov., 2008 began his speech by giving the audience this inspiring message: "..one of the most exciting decisions you can make is to be on the lookout for opportunities to invest in others. This has been one of the most powerful principles of momentum in life.
Zig Ziglar said, "You will always have everything you want in life if you will help enough other people get what they want". One of the marks of true greatness is to develop greatness in others. "There are three keys to more abundant living: caring about othersw, daring for others, and sharing with others' says William Ward.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give, says Norman MacEwan. Assign yourself the purpose of making others happy and successful. People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson observed "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and help them to become what they are capable of being."
There is no investment you can make that will pay you so well as investing in the improvement of others throughout your life. There are two types of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am" and those who come in and say,
"Ah, there you are". How do you know a good person? A good person makes others feel good. Find happiness by helping others find it. Respect others and you will be respected.
Posted by
Hj Naburi
VPPR
Zig Ziglar said, "You will always have everything you want in life if you will help enough other people get what they want". One of the marks of true greatness is to develop greatness in others. "There are three keys to more abundant living: caring about othersw, daring for others, and sharing with others' says William Ward.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give, says Norman MacEwan. Assign yourself the purpose of making others happy and successful. People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson observed "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and help them to become what they are capable of being."
There is no investment you can make that will pay you so well as investing in the improvement of others throughout your life. There are two types of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am" and those who come in and say,
"Ah, there you are". How do you know a good person? A good person makes others feel good. Find happiness by helping others find it. Respect others and you will be respected.
Posted by
Hj Naburi
VPPR
TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL MEETINGS
For the Toastmaster of the Meeting: Tips for a Successful Meeting
Note: These tips are written for members of Village Toastmasters and apply to our particular traditions. Our meetings are held Thursday mornings, and the timeframes here reflect this. However, the basic principles contained herein can be applied to any club's meetings.
Have you noticed that all of our meetings are good, but some are just better? Sometimes it seems like a second waker-upper is needed, while other meetings are full of energy. What's the difference?
The difference is preparation. The job of the Toastmaster of the meeting is not particularly difficult. The Toastmaster need not make speeches or evaluations. The Toastmaster is the person who ties the meeting together - the common face seen from beginning to end. However, for a meeting to go from ordinary to extraordinary, the Toastmaster should make his or her presence felt not only during the meeting, but from the time the previous meeting has ended!
1) Confirm your speakers and general evaluator before the previous meeting ends. Your speakers are responsible for finding their own replacements if they can't make it, but some do not, so finding those replacements at the meeting is much easier.
2) Call your speakers, general evaluator, and functionaries twice! The first time should be Thursday morning, just after everyone is back to work, when you can catch them by the phone.
Don't wait until the weekend - that's the time your speakers need to practice. Better yet - call them the day before the meeting which precedes yours, you will know who can't make it, and can try to find replacement functionaries at that meeting. Even though it is the functionary's responsibility to find a replacement, the Toastmaster often gets stuck with this task!
Don't delay placing your first calls because you have not come up with a meeting theme. Instead, solicit suggestions during those first calls. Your functionaries will be glad to be able to contribute to the selection of theme.
The second calls should be placed Sunday evening. This should be a follow-up call to remind people of their duty, and find out if there are any problems in time to correct them.
3) Don't call evaluators. Delegate this job to the General Evaluator. But check up on your General Evaluator, and be prepared to scrounge up Evaluators at the last minute.
4) Do not trust voicemail. I find that about 75% of our members do not respond to voicemail (!). Do not considered someone notified until you speak to them in person. Do not give anyone more than a day to respond to voicemail; in fact, try calling back an hour or so after you leave your message. Leave messages at home and work. Stress the importance of calling back either with a confirmation, or the name of their replacement.
The best way to avoid voicemail is call people when they are likely to be there! During the week, this is between 8:30 AM and 10 AM in the morning, when people are at their desks, or at home around 7:00 PM in the evenings. Calls on weekends should be made early Saturday morning, before people go out, or early Sunday evening.
5) On Wednesday, call everyone else on the roster. I like to say, "I'm not sure I'm going to need a Waker-Upper tomorrow, and it would be great if you could help me start the meeting." If you're uncomfortable with this, just say that you're not sure all your functionaries will show up, and you may need help with perhaps timer or waker-upper or ah-counter. This not only gives members a reason to come, but you can make this statement truthfully because functionary switching is a fact of life. A third call to your functionaries would be a good idea.
6) Prepare introductions. Before you call your functionaries with the meeting theme, see if you can think of an introduction for them on your own, first. Then, run it by them. They will often suggest something else, so you have two choices to make. Don't get bent out of shape about being entirely accurate about an introduction. It should be lively, colorful, and complimentary, and the Toastmaster is entitled to use a little artistic license here and there to make this happen.
7) Make an agenda so that members and guests can follow the flow of the meeting. List your functionaries names, speech titles, times, and which manual speech is being presented.
8) On Thursday morning, show up early. Greet your functionaries. Loosen up and say 'hi' to your friends, and even guests. The key here is to loosen up. Ensure that the meeting starts on time even if not all of your functionaries are present.
Don't worry if you can't find a replacement for a missing functionary before the meeting starts. It is an always an easy matter to get a volunteer at the time the functionary is to be introduced. For example, when it is time to introduce the timer, say "It would appear that my Timer is not here yet. Would someone mind volunteering as Timer? ... Mary, would you mind doubling up as Timer and Grammarian? Thank you!" You don't need to berate the person who does not show up. First of all, it is possible that an emergency prevented them from showing. Second, it will be obvious to everyone that they did not show up, especially if their name was listed on your agenda. You need not be embarrassed, because you have done your job - in fact, more than your job, because you have found their replacement for them! This problem is a fact of life in any meeting, so if you are able to handle it deftly without getting bent out of shape or being apologetic, you have truly become a Toastmaster.
Good Toastmasters know that meetings are fluid and cannot be completely planned out. They are flexible so that they can not only overcome small problems with ease, but can take the meeting in new directions if these opportunities present themselves!
9) Afterwards, thank all those who came for showing up to the meeting. It does not hurt to call. It will make them feel good, and be willing to help again next time you are Toastmaster.
The short list of all this follows. As you can see, there is not a particular large amount of work involved, but a time commitment is required. I would suggest writing these in your planner as action items.
* Thursday AM:
Confirm functionaries Thursday morning after the preceding meeting. Solicit ideas for a meeting theme if necessary.
* Saturday AM:
Find replacements for functionaries who have not responded to repeated voicemail messages. (This is not your job, but having to do it from time to time is a fact of Toastmasters.)
* Thursday through Sunday:
Think about your theme, and write down some ideas for introductions for your functionaries.
* Sunday evening:
Reconfirm functionaries. Finalize ideas for introductions. Practice anecdotes you plan to tell as part of your introduction, between speeches, and at the end of the meeting.
* Monday, Tuesday:
Handle any last minute functionary changes.
* Wednesday morning:
Call the rest of the members on the roster for "possible functionary replacements." (If the roster is particularly large, ask your President and other board members for help.)
* Wednesday afternoon:
Prepare your agenda and print 20-30 copies. Prepare your meeting notes. I suggest one small sheet of notes for each time you will be at the podium. See if you can eliminate your notes.
* Wednesday evening:
Get a good nights sleep.
* The Meeting:
Arrive early. Give every functionary a warm welcome and a thank-you before the meeting starts! Find any replacements if you can, but don't let it consume you or prevent you greeting your functionaries. Tell your waker-upper to start the meeting on time, even if everyone has not yet shown up. Remember that you are talking to your friends, and volunteers are easy to find even mid-meeting!
* After the meeting:
Follow up with a thank you to your functionaries.
The reason that these tips lead to a successful meeting is that your attendees are no longer bystanders, they are participants. You don't need to work hard to build up energy during the meeting, because they have arrived already full of it. They feel good because they know they are playing a key part in making your meeting successful. Being Toastmaster is one of my favorite jobs, because after building up this energy, I get to be "king of the hill" for a day, and have an opportunity to flatter everyone with fun introductions. Approach the job of Toastmaster with preparation, enthusiasm, and an open attitude for the unexpected, and you and your audience will have a great time and a rewarding experience.
Sean Sheedy
Note: These tips are written for members of Village Toastmasters and apply to our particular traditions. Our meetings are held Thursday mornings, and the timeframes here reflect this. However, the basic principles contained herein can be applied to any club's meetings.
Have you noticed that all of our meetings are good, but some are just better? Sometimes it seems like a second waker-upper is needed, while other meetings are full of energy. What's the difference?
The difference is preparation. The job of the Toastmaster of the meeting is not particularly difficult. The Toastmaster need not make speeches or evaluations. The Toastmaster is the person who ties the meeting together - the common face seen from beginning to end. However, for a meeting to go from ordinary to extraordinary, the Toastmaster should make his or her presence felt not only during the meeting, but from the time the previous meeting has ended!
1) Confirm your speakers and general evaluator before the previous meeting ends. Your speakers are responsible for finding their own replacements if they can't make it, but some do not, so finding those replacements at the meeting is much easier.
2) Call your speakers, general evaluator, and functionaries twice! The first time should be Thursday morning, just after everyone is back to work, when you can catch them by the phone.
Don't wait until the weekend - that's the time your speakers need to practice. Better yet - call them the day before the meeting which precedes yours, you will know who can't make it, and can try to find replacement functionaries at that meeting. Even though it is the functionary's responsibility to find a replacement, the Toastmaster often gets stuck with this task!
Don't delay placing your first calls because you have not come up with a meeting theme. Instead, solicit suggestions during those first calls. Your functionaries will be glad to be able to contribute to the selection of theme.
The second calls should be placed Sunday evening. This should be a follow-up call to remind people of their duty, and find out if there are any problems in time to correct them.
3) Don't call evaluators. Delegate this job to the General Evaluator. But check up on your General Evaluator, and be prepared to scrounge up Evaluators at the last minute.
4) Do not trust voicemail. I find that about 75% of our members do not respond to voicemail (!). Do not considered someone notified until you speak to them in person. Do not give anyone more than a day to respond to voicemail; in fact, try calling back an hour or so after you leave your message. Leave messages at home and work. Stress the importance of calling back either with a confirmation, or the name of their replacement.
The best way to avoid voicemail is call people when they are likely to be there! During the week, this is between 8:30 AM and 10 AM in the morning, when people are at their desks, or at home around 7:00 PM in the evenings. Calls on weekends should be made early Saturday morning, before people go out, or early Sunday evening.
5) On Wednesday, call everyone else on the roster. I like to say, "I'm not sure I'm going to need a Waker-Upper tomorrow, and it would be great if you could help me start the meeting." If you're uncomfortable with this, just say that you're not sure all your functionaries will show up, and you may need help with perhaps timer or waker-upper or ah-counter. This not only gives members a reason to come, but you can make this statement truthfully because functionary switching is a fact of life. A third call to your functionaries would be a good idea.
6) Prepare introductions. Before you call your functionaries with the meeting theme, see if you can think of an introduction for them on your own, first. Then, run it by them. They will often suggest something else, so you have two choices to make. Don't get bent out of shape about being entirely accurate about an introduction. It should be lively, colorful, and complimentary, and the Toastmaster is entitled to use a little artistic license here and there to make this happen.
7) Make an agenda so that members and guests can follow the flow of the meeting. List your functionaries names, speech titles, times, and which manual speech is being presented.
8) On Thursday morning, show up early. Greet your functionaries. Loosen up and say 'hi' to your friends, and even guests. The key here is to loosen up. Ensure that the meeting starts on time even if not all of your functionaries are present.
Don't worry if you can't find a replacement for a missing functionary before the meeting starts. It is an always an easy matter to get a volunteer at the time the functionary is to be introduced. For example, when it is time to introduce the timer, say "It would appear that my Timer is not here yet. Would someone mind volunteering as Timer? ... Mary, would you mind doubling up as Timer and Grammarian? Thank you!" You don't need to berate the person who does not show up. First of all, it is possible that an emergency prevented them from showing. Second, it will be obvious to everyone that they did not show up, especially if their name was listed on your agenda. You need not be embarrassed, because you have done your job - in fact, more than your job, because you have found their replacement for them! This problem is a fact of life in any meeting, so if you are able to handle it deftly without getting bent out of shape or being apologetic, you have truly become a Toastmaster.
Good Toastmasters know that meetings are fluid and cannot be completely planned out. They are flexible so that they can not only overcome small problems with ease, but can take the meeting in new directions if these opportunities present themselves!
9) Afterwards, thank all those who came for showing up to the meeting. It does not hurt to call. It will make them feel good, and be willing to help again next time you are Toastmaster.
The short list of all this follows. As you can see, there is not a particular large amount of work involved, but a time commitment is required. I would suggest writing these in your planner as action items.
* Thursday AM:
Confirm functionaries Thursday morning after the preceding meeting. Solicit ideas for a meeting theme if necessary.
* Saturday AM:
Find replacements for functionaries who have not responded to repeated voicemail messages. (This is not your job, but having to do it from time to time is a fact of Toastmasters.)
* Thursday through Sunday:
Think about your theme, and write down some ideas for introductions for your functionaries.
* Sunday evening:
Reconfirm functionaries. Finalize ideas for introductions. Practice anecdotes you plan to tell as part of your introduction, between speeches, and at the end of the meeting.
* Monday, Tuesday:
Handle any last minute functionary changes.
* Wednesday morning:
Call the rest of the members on the roster for "possible functionary replacements." (If the roster is particularly large, ask your President and other board members for help.)
* Wednesday afternoon:
Prepare your agenda and print 20-30 copies. Prepare your meeting notes. I suggest one small sheet of notes for each time you will be at the podium. See if you can eliminate your notes.
* Wednesday evening:
Get a good nights sleep.
* The Meeting:
Arrive early. Give every functionary a warm welcome and a thank-you before the meeting starts! Find any replacements if you can, but don't let it consume you or prevent you greeting your functionaries. Tell your waker-upper to start the meeting on time, even if everyone has not yet shown up. Remember that you are talking to your friends, and volunteers are easy to find even mid-meeting!
* After the meeting:
Follow up with a thank you to your functionaries.
The reason that these tips lead to a successful meeting is that your attendees are no longer bystanders, they are participants. You don't need to work hard to build up energy during the meeting, because they have arrived already full of it. They feel good because they know they are playing a key part in making your meeting successful. Being Toastmaster is one of my favorite jobs, because after building up this energy, I get to be "king of the hill" for a day, and have an opportunity to flatter everyone with fun introductions. Approach the job of Toastmaster with preparation, enthusiasm, and an open attitude for the unexpected, and you and your audience will have a great time and a rewarding experience.
Sean Sheedy
IMPROMPTU SPEECH
Giving Impromptu Speeches
Have you ever had work commitments keep you from practicing a speech? Have you ever been asked to speak for someone at the last minute? When I started my consulting practice and became a father of twins in the same year, I often found myself lacking time to prepare and practice my speeches.
One of my evaluators wisely pointed out that it is not how long you prepare for a speech, but how efficiently you prepare. If you learn how to refine your preparation and delivery skills, you can deliver a great impromptu speech from your own foundation of knowledge and personal style.
I would like to share with you some of the tricks I have learned about this important skill from my own recent "trials by fire":
1. Don't quit your day job. Your day job in Toastmasters is preparing, practicing, and delivering manual speeches. You should attempt impromptu speaking only after you have completed a number of manual speeches and are already comfortable as a speaker. By this time you should know your natural style and the skills needed for successful impromptu speaking. Speeches in the beginner's manual should never be performed impromptu the first time. Each manual speech is focused on the development of a particular skill. Giving these speeches impromptu is like trying to learn calculus without knowing how to add. If you find that your speeches are becoming increasingly impromptu, you may need to reexamine your business and personal priorities.
2. Know your natural style. Impromptu speaking is much easier if you know your own natural speaking style. I discovered my natural style on my fourth or fifth manual speech. I discovered that I can easily tell short, humorous stories of things that have happened to me. As a result, my best speeches are those that consist of stories which come from my heart. What is your natural style?
3. Use positive self-talk. My early impromptu speeches were hobbled by negative self-talk. My inner voice kept telling me that I was inadequately prepared and was destined to falter. When I hit the stage, I focused on my self-consciousness instead of the audience, and guess what - I faltered. I turned around this self-talk by realizing through evaluations that I was speaking to friends who enjoyed my personal stories, and who often did not notice when I forgot a point I wanted to make. Suddenly, I found myself connecting with my audience, as if I was talking with each one of them personally.
4. Make a point. Even when you give an impromptu speech, you need structure. The classic "opening, body, and conclusion" falls in place if everything you say relates to a point which you reveal at the end. For example, I recently gave a speech about a family vacation to visit relatives. I opened by saying how much we needed the vacation to escape from work and stress at home. Then I created a body by telling stories like how we stayed in a converted garage which seemed more like a cave, and tried to sleep on a leaky air mattress. Finally, I told how relieved we were to return home, where I drove home my point: a vacation is not so much an escape as it is an opportunity to appreciate what you already have. By making a point, I turned what could have been a boring recitation of a family vacation into a funny story with a memorable lesson.
5. Avoid using notes. An impromptu speech is like a flash flood - it goes where it wants to. If you only have ten minutes to create your notes, you are bound to come up with better ways to express your ideas while you are speaking. Trying to force your speech back to your notes is at best awkward and at worst will throw you completely off track. Abandon your notes, and let the rest of your speech flow from your heart. If you must use notes, they should contain only the point you wish to make, plus a couple of words to trigger any stories you wish to tell.
6. Deliver it as if you've practiced it many times. Don't reveal beforehand that your speech is impromptu. This will undermine your audience's reception of your speech before you even begin. Approach the audience with confidence, as if you've practiced many times before. Deliver it with vigor and confidence, letting your ideas flow as if you are talking to friends. Present your conclusion as if you're revealing something very important. Prepare yourself for the praise you receive when your evaluator reveals that this speech was impromptu!
About apologies: When you're in the spotlight, do not apologize for nervousness, lack of preparation, missing functionaries, or poorly run meetings. The spotlight will turn immediately toward the very flaw you are trying to overcome. I've seen too many cases where a perfectly good speech or meeting was ruined because a problem which otherwise would have gone unnoticed, became the foremost thought of the audience. Let the evaluator or general evaluator judge the severity of any errors you make and point them out at the appropriate time.
7. Be willing to cut it short. Sometimes you'll have covered only half your thoughts, and you'll find a great way to end your story, right there. If you think you're close to the green light, cut to the conclusion! Even though I have to force myself to drop things I wanted to say, my speeches are much better when I dump unnecessary content in favor of a clean conclusion.
8. Tell your evaluator that your speech is impromptu. Ask him to focus their evaluation on what you did to make your impromptu speech successful, and on suggestions that you can use to improve your impromptu speaking technique. It's OK for the evaluator to point out that impromptu speeches should be an exception in a Toastmasters club. It's not OK for the evaluator to chastise you for not spending more time preparing (unless you are making this a habit.) You may want to ask the General Evaluator to assign you an experienced evaluator who has been in your shoes.
9. Practice at table topics. Be bold, and ask the Table Topics Master to choose you during table topics. If you can master table topics, then you will be able to string together an impromptu speech from a series of anecdotes.
10. Volunteer to be an evaluator. This is a great opportunity to learn how to organize thoughts quickly and effectively, and deliver them seamlessly. Force yourself to leave your notes behind when you give your evaluation, so that you learn to think on your feet.
About evaluating without notes: The idea of giving an evaluation without notes used to give me the willies. Then I realized that the worst thing that would happen would be that I might not remember all I wanted to say. I realized that this would mean that my evaluation would merely be too short to qualify for "Best Evaluator." What a small price to pay for learning how to impress my audience with my hands free of notes!
11. Relive the high points. Immediately after your speech, think about the places where you were on a roll. It's likely this is where your self-confidence peaked and you connected with your audience. This is your natural style! Think about your state of mind, and how you got there. Then, do more of it in future speeches.
Conclusion
In real life, many speeches and calls to action are impromptu, and being able to deliver one expertly is a valuable skill. It requires you to organize your thoughts quickly before you reach the stage. This skill can be learned by doing evaluations. It requires you to approach the podium with confidence, as if you've done this many times before. Then you must deliver your speech in your own style, with vigor and energy. When you are done, you can enjoy remembering what you did that made your speech successful.
The ability to perform an impromptu speech well is a skill shared by the best speakers and leaders of the world. When such a speech is prepared and delivered so well that the audience does not even know it, your self-confidence will reach new levels that will carry over into other aspects of your business and personal life. In Toastmasters, these speeches are the exception rather than the rule, but being able to give them is a skill that should be in every Toastmaster's repertoire.
Sean Sheedy V
Have you ever had work commitments keep you from practicing a speech? Have you ever been asked to speak for someone at the last minute? When I started my consulting practice and became a father of twins in the same year, I often found myself lacking time to prepare and practice my speeches.
One of my evaluators wisely pointed out that it is not how long you prepare for a speech, but how efficiently you prepare. If you learn how to refine your preparation and delivery skills, you can deliver a great impromptu speech from your own foundation of knowledge and personal style.
I would like to share with you some of the tricks I have learned about this important skill from my own recent "trials by fire":
1. Don't quit your day job. Your day job in Toastmasters is preparing, practicing, and delivering manual speeches. You should attempt impromptu speaking only after you have completed a number of manual speeches and are already comfortable as a speaker. By this time you should know your natural style and the skills needed for successful impromptu speaking. Speeches in the beginner's manual should never be performed impromptu the first time. Each manual speech is focused on the development of a particular skill. Giving these speeches impromptu is like trying to learn calculus without knowing how to add. If you find that your speeches are becoming increasingly impromptu, you may need to reexamine your business and personal priorities.
2. Know your natural style. Impromptu speaking is much easier if you know your own natural speaking style. I discovered my natural style on my fourth or fifth manual speech. I discovered that I can easily tell short, humorous stories of things that have happened to me. As a result, my best speeches are those that consist of stories which come from my heart. What is your natural style?
3. Use positive self-talk. My early impromptu speeches were hobbled by negative self-talk. My inner voice kept telling me that I was inadequately prepared and was destined to falter. When I hit the stage, I focused on my self-consciousness instead of the audience, and guess what - I faltered. I turned around this self-talk by realizing through evaluations that I was speaking to friends who enjoyed my personal stories, and who often did not notice when I forgot a point I wanted to make. Suddenly, I found myself connecting with my audience, as if I was talking with each one of them personally.
4. Make a point. Even when you give an impromptu speech, you need structure. The classic "opening, body, and conclusion" falls in place if everything you say relates to a point which you reveal at the end. For example, I recently gave a speech about a family vacation to visit relatives. I opened by saying how much we needed the vacation to escape from work and stress at home. Then I created a body by telling stories like how we stayed in a converted garage which seemed more like a cave, and tried to sleep on a leaky air mattress. Finally, I told how relieved we were to return home, where I drove home my point: a vacation is not so much an escape as it is an opportunity to appreciate what you already have. By making a point, I turned what could have been a boring recitation of a family vacation into a funny story with a memorable lesson.
5. Avoid using notes. An impromptu speech is like a flash flood - it goes where it wants to. If you only have ten minutes to create your notes, you are bound to come up with better ways to express your ideas while you are speaking. Trying to force your speech back to your notes is at best awkward and at worst will throw you completely off track. Abandon your notes, and let the rest of your speech flow from your heart. If you must use notes, they should contain only the point you wish to make, plus a couple of words to trigger any stories you wish to tell.
6. Deliver it as if you've practiced it many times. Don't reveal beforehand that your speech is impromptu. This will undermine your audience's reception of your speech before you even begin. Approach the audience with confidence, as if you've practiced many times before. Deliver it with vigor and confidence, letting your ideas flow as if you are talking to friends. Present your conclusion as if you're revealing something very important. Prepare yourself for the praise you receive when your evaluator reveals that this speech was impromptu!
About apologies: When you're in the spotlight, do not apologize for nervousness, lack of preparation, missing functionaries, or poorly run meetings. The spotlight will turn immediately toward the very flaw you are trying to overcome. I've seen too many cases where a perfectly good speech or meeting was ruined because a problem which otherwise would have gone unnoticed, became the foremost thought of the audience. Let the evaluator or general evaluator judge the severity of any errors you make and point them out at the appropriate time.
7. Be willing to cut it short. Sometimes you'll have covered only half your thoughts, and you'll find a great way to end your story, right there. If you think you're close to the green light, cut to the conclusion! Even though I have to force myself to drop things I wanted to say, my speeches are much better when I dump unnecessary content in favor of a clean conclusion.
8. Tell your evaluator that your speech is impromptu. Ask him to focus their evaluation on what you did to make your impromptu speech successful, and on suggestions that you can use to improve your impromptu speaking technique. It's OK for the evaluator to point out that impromptu speeches should be an exception in a Toastmasters club. It's not OK for the evaluator to chastise you for not spending more time preparing (unless you are making this a habit.) You may want to ask the General Evaluator to assign you an experienced evaluator who has been in your shoes.
9. Practice at table topics. Be bold, and ask the Table Topics Master to choose you during table topics. If you can master table topics, then you will be able to string together an impromptu speech from a series of anecdotes.
10. Volunteer to be an evaluator. This is a great opportunity to learn how to organize thoughts quickly and effectively, and deliver them seamlessly. Force yourself to leave your notes behind when you give your evaluation, so that you learn to think on your feet.
About evaluating without notes: The idea of giving an evaluation without notes used to give me the willies. Then I realized that the worst thing that would happen would be that I might not remember all I wanted to say. I realized that this would mean that my evaluation would merely be too short to qualify for "Best Evaluator." What a small price to pay for learning how to impress my audience with my hands free of notes!
11. Relive the high points. Immediately after your speech, think about the places where you were on a roll. It's likely this is where your self-confidence peaked and you connected with your audience. This is your natural style! Think about your state of mind, and how you got there. Then, do more of it in future speeches.
Conclusion
In real life, many speeches and calls to action are impromptu, and being able to deliver one expertly is a valuable skill. It requires you to organize your thoughts quickly before you reach the stage. This skill can be learned by doing evaluations. It requires you to approach the podium with confidence, as if you've done this many times before. Then you must deliver your speech in your own style, with vigor and energy. When you are done, you can enjoy remembering what you did that made your speech successful.
The ability to perform an impromptu speech well is a skill shared by the best speakers and leaders of the world. When such a speech is prepared and delivered so well that the audience does not even know it, your self-confidence will reach new levels that will carry over into other aspects of your business and personal life. In Toastmasters, these speeches are the exception rather than the rule, but being able to give them is a skill that should be in every Toastmaster's repertoire.
Sean Sheedy V
THE RIGHT WAY TO SPEAK
The RIGHT Way to Speak"
In an effort to maximize our ability to communicate publicly, we often search for the "right" way to speak.
Finding the "right" way, however, is like grabbing a handful of water.
Why? It is because the right way is slightly different for each person.
It's a combination of who, what, and where we are at the moment.
Of course, we can all apply certain fundamentals and techniques to elevate our skill, but each of use will use them with varying results.
Have you ever heard the same joke from two different people and one time it was funny and the other time it was not?
Chances are high that the first was simply a funnier person than the second.
Here's the secret to speaking the right way...
1. Know your speaking ability at the moment and use a majority of techniques that fit within that level.
Go with what works for you right now.
2. Continue to learn and apply new skills as you master your present set.
For most, public speaking does not come naturally; it is an acquired and admired skill that comes through education and application.
3. Use one new speaking technique each speech or presentation.
Try out a new story, or a new prop, or a new close.
I say one because if it doesn't work out the way you expected, you have your sure bet techniques already doing a great job for you.
The right way is simply YOUR way at the moment.
Do your best. Share the greatest value with the audience.
Don't beat yourself up if you are just starting.
Don't give yourself too much slack if you've been speaking for years, but refuse to learn and apply new things.
(Paul Evans - Instant Speaking Success)
In an effort to maximize our ability to communicate publicly, we often search for the "right" way to speak.
Finding the "right" way, however, is like grabbing a handful of water.
Why? It is because the right way is slightly different for each person.
It's a combination of who, what, and where we are at the moment.
Of course, we can all apply certain fundamentals and techniques to elevate our skill, but each of use will use them with varying results.
Have you ever heard the same joke from two different people and one time it was funny and the other time it was not?
Chances are high that the first was simply a funnier person than the second.
Here's the secret to speaking the right way...
1. Know your speaking ability at the moment and use a majority of techniques that fit within that level.
Go with what works for you right now.
2. Continue to learn and apply new skills as you master your present set.
For most, public speaking does not come naturally; it is an acquired and admired skill that comes through education and application.
3. Use one new speaking technique each speech or presentation.
Try out a new story, or a new prop, or a new close.
I say one because if it doesn't work out the way you expected, you have your sure bet techniques already doing a great job for you.
The right way is simply YOUR way at the moment.
Do your best. Share the greatest value with the audience.
Don't beat yourself up if you are just starting.
Don't give yourself too much slack if you've been speaking for years, but refuse to learn and apply new things.
(Paul Evans - Instant Speaking Success)
STAGE FRIGHT STRATEGIES
Stage fright Is Good and Makes You Better Looking Too!
Before you learn how to deliver your lines, it is important to be ready to deliver your lines. Stage fright is a phenomenon that you must learn to control. Actually, stage fright isn't the most accurate term for the nervousness that occurs when considering a speaking engagement. In fact, most of the fear occurs before you step on-stage. Once you're up there, it usually goes away. Try to think of stage fright in a positive way. Fear is your friend. It makes your reflexes sharper. It heightens your energy, adds a sparkle to your eye, and color to your cheeks. When you are nervous about speaking you are more conscious of your posture and breathing. With all those good side effects you will actually look healthier and more physically attractive.
Many of the top performers in the world get stage fright so you are in good company. Stage fright may come and go or diminish, but it usually does not vanish permanently. You must concentrate on getting the feeling out in the open, into perspective and under control.
Remember Nobody ever died from stage fright. But, according to surveys, many people would rather die than give a speech. If that applies to you, try out some of the strategies in this section to help get yourself under control. Realize that you may never overcome stage fright, but you can learn to control it, and use it to your advantage.
Symptoms of Stage fright
Dry mouth.
Tight throat.
Sweaty hands.
Cold hands.
Shaky hands.
Nausea.
Fast pulse.
Shaky knees.
Trembling lips.
Any out-of-the-ordinary outward or inward feeling or manifestation of a feeling occurring before, or during, the beginning of a presentation.
(Wow! What a dry mouthful!).
Here are some easy to implement strategies for reducing your stage fright. Not everyone reacts the same and there is no universal fix. Don't try to use all these fixes at once. Pick out items from this list and try them out until you find the right combination for you.
Visualization strategies that can be used anytime
Concentrate on how good you are.
Pretend you are just chatting with a group of friends.
Close your eyes and imagine the audience listening, laughing, and applauding.
Remember happy moments from your past.
Think about your love for and desire to help the audience.
Picture the audience in their underwear.
Strategies in advance of program
Be extremely well prepared.
Join or start a Toastmasters club for extra practice
Get individual or group presentation skills coaching.
Listen to music.
Read a poem.
Anticipate hard and easy questions.
Organize.
Absolutely memorize your opening statement so you can recite it on autopilot if you have to.
Practice, practice, practice. Especially practice bits so you can spit out a few minutes of your program no matter how nervous you are.
Get in shape. I don't know why it helps stage fright, but it does.
Strategies just before the program
Remember Stage fright usually goes away after you start. The tricky time is before you start.
Be in the room at least an hour early if possible to triple check everything. You can also schmooze with participants arriving early.
Notice and think about things around you.
Concentrate on searching for current and immediate things that are happening at the event that you can mention during your talk (especially in the opening).
Get into conversation with people near you. Be very intent on what they are saying.
Yawn to relax your throat.
Doodle.
Draw sketches of a new car you would like to have.
Look at your notes.
Put pictures of your kids/grandkids, dog, etc., in your notes.
Build a cushion of time in the day so you are not rushed but not too much time. You don't want to have extra time to worry.
If your legs are trembling, lean on a table, sit down, or shift your legs.
Take a quick walk.
Take quick drinks of tepid water.
Double check your A/V equipment.
Don't drink alcohol or coffee or tea with caffeine.
Concentrate on your ideas.
Hide notes around the stage area so you know you have a backup if you happen to draw a blank.
Concentrate on your audience.
Listen to music.
Read a poem.
Do isometrics that tighten and release muscles.
Shake hands and smile with attendees before the program.
Say something to someone to make sure your voice is ready to go.
Go somewhere private and warm up your voice, muscles, etc.
Use eye contact.
Go to a mirror and check out how you look.
Breathe deeply, evenly, and slowly for several minutes.
Don't eat if you don't want to and never take tranquilizers or other such drugs. You may think you will do better, but you will probably do worse and not know it.
Strategies when the program begins
If legs are trembling, lean on lectern /table or shift legs or move.
Try not to hold the microphone by hand in the first minute.
Don't hold notes. The audience can see them shake. Use three-by-five cards instead.
Take quick drinks of tepid water.
Use eye contact. It will make you feel less isolated.
Look at the friendliest faces in the audience.
Joke about your nervousness. "What's the right wine to go with fingernails? "
Remember nervousness doesn't show one-tenth as much as it feels.
Before each presentation make a short list of the items you think will make you feel better. Don't be afraid to experiment with different combinations. You never know which ones will work best until you try. Rewrite them on a separate sheet and keep the sheet with you at all times so you can refer to it quickly when the need arises.
Use these steps to control stage fright so it doesn't control you.
- by Tom Antion
end of artcle...
Before you learn how to deliver your lines, it is important to be ready to deliver your lines. Stage fright is a phenomenon that you must learn to control. Actually, stage fright isn't the most accurate term for the nervousness that occurs when considering a speaking engagement. In fact, most of the fear occurs before you step on-stage. Once you're up there, it usually goes away. Try to think of stage fright in a positive way. Fear is your friend. It makes your reflexes sharper. It heightens your energy, adds a sparkle to your eye, and color to your cheeks. When you are nervous about speaking you are more conscious of your posture and breathing. With all those good side effects you will actually look healthier and more physically attractive.
Many of the top performers in the world get stage fright so you are in good company. Stage fright may come and go or diminish, but it usually does not vanish permanently. You must concentrate on getting the feeling out in the open, into perspective and under control.
Remember Nobody ever died from stage fright. But, according to surveys, many people would rather die than give a speech. If that applies to you, try out some of the strategies in this section to help get yourself under control. Realize that you may never overcome stage fright, but you can learn to control it, and use it to your advantage.
Symptoms of Stage fright
Dry mouth.
Tight throat.
Sweaty hands.
Cold hands.
Shaky hands.
Nausea.
Fast pulse.
Shaky knees.
Trembling lips.
Any out-of-the-ordinary outward or inward feeling or manifestation of a feeling occurring before, or during, the beginning of a presentation.
(Wow! What a dry mouthful!).
Here are some easy to implement strategies for reducing your stage fright. Not everyone reacts the same and there is no universal fix. Don't try to use all these fixes at once. Pick out items from this list and try them out until you find the right combination for you.
Visualization strategies that can be used anytime
Concentrate on how good you are.
Pretend you are just chatting with a group of friends.
Close your eyes and imagine the audience listening, laughing, and applauding.
Remember happy moments from your past.
Think about your love for and desire to help the audience.
Picture the audience in their underwear.
Strategies in advance of program
Be extremely well prepared.
Join or start a Toastmasters club for extra practice
Get individual or group presentation skills coaching.
Listen to music.
Read a poem.
Anticipate hard and easy questions.
Organize.
Absolutely memorize your opening statement so you can recite it on autopilot if you have to.
Practice, practice, practice. Especially practice bits so you can spit out a few minutes of your program no matter how nervous you are.
Get in shape. I don't know why it helps stage fright, but it does.
Strategies just before the program
Remember Stage fright usually goes away after you start. The tricky time is before you start.
Be in the room at least an hour early if possible to triple check everything. You can also schmooze with participants arriving early.
Notice and think about things around you.
Concentrate on searching for current and immediate things that are happening at the event that you can mention during your talk (especially in the opening).
Get into conversation with people near you. Be very intent on what they are saying.
Yawn to relax your throat.
Doodle.
Draw sketches of a new car you would like to have.
Look at your notes.
Put pictures of your kids/grandkids, dog, etc., in your notes.
Build a cushion of time in the day so you are not rushed but not too much time. You don't want to have extra time to worry.
If your legs are trembling, lean on a table, sit down, or shift your legs.
Take a quick walk.
Take quick drinks of tepid water.
Double check your A/V equipment.
Don't drink alcohol or coffee or tea with caffeine.
Concentrate on your ideas.
Hide notes around the stage area so you know you have a backup if you happen to draw a blank.
Concentrate on your audience.
Listen to music.
Read a poem.
Do isometrics that tighten and release muscles.
Shake hands and smile with attendees before the program.
Say something to someone to make sure your voice is ready to go.
Go somewhere private and warm up your voice, muscles, etc.
Use eye contact.
Go to a mirror and check out how you look.
Breathe deeply, evenly, and slowly for several minutes.
Don't eat if you don't want to and never take tranquilizers or other such drugs. You may think you will do better, but you will probably do worse and not know it.
Strategies when the program begins
If legs are trembling, lean on lectern /table or shift legs or move.
Try not to hold the microphone by hand in the first minute.
Don't hold notes. The audience can see them shake. Use three-by-five cards instead.
Take quick drinks of tepid water.
Use eye contact. It will make you feel less isolated.
Look at the friendliest faces in the audience.
Joke about your nervousness. "What's the right wine to go with fingernails? "
Remember nervousness doesn't show one-tenth as much as it feels.
Before each presentation make a short list of the items you think will make you feel better. Don't be afraid to experiment with different combinations. You never know which ones will work best until you try. Rewrite them on a separate sheet and keep the sheet with you at all times so you can refer to it quickly when the need arises.
Use these steps to control stage fright so it doesn't control you.
- by Tom Antion
end of artcle...
HOW TO RECOGNISE A STROKE
From: Alan Subject: BLOOD CLOT----STROKE
How to Recognise a StrokE !!!!!!!! ?????
Some don't die, they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this .. .
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim
within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a
stroke .. . to tally . He said the trick was getting a stroke
recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient
medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters .. .. S.T.R.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' STEPS: STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMP LE SENTENCE
(Coherently) i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY O NE of these tasks,
call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
New Sign of a Stroke ------- Stick out Your Tongue
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person
to 'stick' out his tongue .. If the tongue is 'cr ooked',
if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an
indication of a stroke.
How to Recognise a StrokE !!!!!!!! ?????
Some don't die, they end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.
It only takes a minute to read this .. .
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim
within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a
stroke .. . to tally . He said the trick was getting a stroke
recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient
medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters .. .. S.T.R.
If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks.
Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' STEPS: STR . Read and Learn!
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple
questions:
S * Ask the individual to SMILE.
T * Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMP LE SENTENCE
(Coherently) i.e. It is sunny out today)
R * Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
If he or she has trouble with ANY O NE of these tasks,
call 999/911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
New Sign of a Stroke ------- Stick out Your Tongue
NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person
to 'stick' out his tongue .. If the tongue is 'cr ooked',
if it goes to one side or the other , that is also an
indication of a stroke.
160th meeting 11th Nov., 2008; A Success
This report should have been written by Huey Yee. But last minute she "threw the pen" at me.Like it or not I have to do it. I'll try my best to write down what happened at the meeting.
The meeting was attended by: The President, Hj Hashim, who played the role of an invocator. As usual Hj Hashim gave a very inspiring invocation entitled "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL". The gist of it, is that every success must experience failures and mistakes in life. Everyone should learn from their failures and when you fall down, you will get up and rebounce upward far greater than your drop-down. Anyway I will post the actual text in our BLOG so you can read it there.
The President was suppose to be the evaluator for Derrick Teh, but he did not turn up. Hopefully Derrick will attend the next meeting on 25th Nov. to do his Ice-breaker speech.
The VPE Siew Yin, also took up a dual role as Ah Counter as well as Table- Topic Master. She gave a very interesting topic to the five speakers led by Hj Naburi, then KL Loh, followed by our guests, Duncan and Kumaran and lastly Raymond Sii, the member who was MIA (missing in action) for some time. He was lost for words due to his long absence. But he made a courages comeback by delivering his first advance speech from the Professional Speaker Series. "Welcome back Raymond", and from now on, we will see more of you at our future meetings.
Congratulations to our guest Kumaran who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award. Both Duncan and Kumaran have decided to join our club. Congratulations to both of them for making the right decision in choosing our club. WELCOME Duncan and Kumaran.
As Ah Counter, Siew Yin had a field day ("night") in making money for the Club. Abu Bakar, the TME who did a very good job in conducting the meeting also had to pay the most fines of RM4.20 for having 42 speech crutches. So much so he had no small change for car park. As usual Hj Naburi, the next champion contributed RM2.30. I presume it's a record collection for the club and Song,the club treasurer, will be laughing his way to the bank. Unfortunately he was absent.
The evening was made hilarious by KL Loh's jokes with interjection from the members especially Hj Naburi with his letter from Osama to Bush with the message :
370H-SSV-O773H. To understand it you have to read the code upside down then you get the message.
The project speeches were all from the Advance series with Victor Wan's "Roasting" of Hj Naburi, who got carried away when he was doing the evaluation. Instead of evaluating Victor he went through the history of the club and definitely overshot his time allocations. Not only was Hj going overboard with time, but the other two speakers, Raymond Sii, and Wan Chee Wing and their evaluators, Huey Yee and Janice Ooi respectively, also overshot their time allocation. For the first time there was no Best Speaker and no Best Evaluator award given tonight.
The absence of our advisor, Francis Ng was greatly felt by the meeting especially to Victor Wan who was supposed to Roast him. This is one of the rare occassion that Francis did not come to the meeting as he is attending the District 51 Convention in Bali. Without Francis we still manage to run a successful meeting. Touche to the President, who was the earliest to arrive to arrange table and chairs and placing the banners and helping Paul to prepare the nasi lemak. He was the last to leave the meeting room to rearrange the table and chairs with the help of Paul, Duncan, E.K. Yeo and Hj Naburi. Normally, all these were done by Francis.
The birthday cake was also prepared by the President. Hj Naburi and Janice and Wan Chee Wing except for Alwin who left early, had their birthday song and blowing candles ceremony and Huey Yee helped to cut the cake for everyone.
Well done to all the role players. Abu Bakar, the TME,- a well run meeting. Cindy Foong, the Timer, even though with an injured hand after being attacked by snatch thieves a couple of nights before, Cindy still turn up to take up role. Thank you and kudos to Cindy. We pray that you will overcome the trauma soon and our sympathy to you Cindy.
Paul Tan was Grammarian and as usual gave his lengthy report and advice.
The General Evaluator was Chen Voon Hann who is no stranger to our club, our friend from MIA TMC, did a very good job in his duty and tried to bring us to the next level by suggesting that we ought to think seriously about practising open evaluation which is a good idea. We should try it sometime.
Not to forget Tan Ben Hoe our cool IPP in his usual style was the Table Topic evaluator, appreciated by everyone.
All in all, it was a successful meeting and everyone had a good time. Our guest, Kumaran who came for the first time was very impressed with our performances decided to join as a member of our club together with Duncan.
Well done guys and gals. Keep it up.
Report by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
The meeting was attended by: The President, Hj Hashim, who played the role of an invocator. As usual Hj Hashim gave a very inspiring invocation entitled "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL". The gist of it, is that every success must experience failures and mistakes in life. Everyone should learn from their failures and when you fall down, you will get up and rebounce upward far greater than your drop-down. Anyway I will post the actual text in our BLOG so you can read it there.
The President was suppose to be the evaluator for Derrick Teh, but he did not turn up. Hopefully Derrick will attend the next meeting on 25th Nov. to do his Ice-breaker speech.
The VPE Siew Yin, also took up a dual role as Ah Counter as well as Table- Topic Master. She gave a very interesting topic to the five speakers led by Hj Naburi, then KL Loh, followed by our guests, Duncan and Kumaran and lastly Raymond Sii, the member who was MIA (missing in action) for some time. He was lost for words due to his long absence. But he made a courages comeback by delivering his first advance speech from the Professional Speaker Series. "Welcome back Raymond", and from now on, we will see more of you at our future meetings.
Congratulations to our guest Kumaran who won the Best Table Topic Speaker award. Both Duncan and Kumaran have decided to join our club. Congratulations to both of them for making the right decision in choosing our club. WELCOME Duncan and Kumaran.
As Ah Counter, Siew Yin had a field day ("night") in making money for the Club. Abu Bakar, the TME who did a very good job in conducting the meeting also had to pay the most fines of RM4.20 for having 42 speech crutches. So much so he had no small change for car park. As usual Hj Naburi, the next champion contributed RM2.30. I presume it's a record collection for the club and Song,the club treasurer, will be laughing his way to the bank. Unfortunately he was absent.
The evening was made hilarious by KL Loh's jokes with interjection from the members especially Hj Naburi with his letter from Osama to Bush with the message :
370H-SSV-O773H. To understand it you have to read the code upside down then you get the message.
The project speeches were all from the Advance series with Victor Wan's "Roasting" of Hj Naburi, who got carried away when he was doing the evaluation. Instead of evaluating Victor he went through the history of the club and definitely overshot his time allocations. Not only was Hj going overboard with time, but the other two speakers, Raymond Sii, and Wan Chee Wing and their evaluators, Huey Yee and Janice Ooi respectively, also overshot their time allocation. For the first time there was no Best Speaker and no Best Evaluator award given tonight.
The absence of our advisor, Francis Ng was greatly felt by the meeting especially to Victor Wan who was supposed to Roast him. This is one of the rare occassion that Francis did not come to the meeting as he is attending the District 51 Convention in Bali. Without Francis we still manage to run a successful meeting. Touche to the President, who was the earliest to arrive to arrange table and chairs and placing the banners and helping Paul to prepare the nasi lemak. He was the last to leave the meeting room to rearrange the table and chairs with the help of Paul, Duncan, E.K. Yeo and Hj Naburi. Normally, all these were done by Francis.
The birthday cake was also prepared by the President. Hj Naburi and Janice and Wan Chee Wing except for Alwin who left early, had their birthday song and blowing candles ceremony and Huey Yee helped to cut the cake for everyone.
Well done to all the role players. Abu Bakar, the TME,- a well run meeting. Cindy Foong, the Timer, even though with an injured hand after being attacked by snatch thieves a couple of nights before, Cindy still turn up to take up role. Thank you and kudos to Cindy. We pray that you will overcome the trauma soon and our sympathy to you Cindy.
Paul Tan was Grammarian and as usual gave his lengthy report and advice.
The General Evaluator was Chen Voon Hann who is no stranger to our club, our friend from MIA TMC, did a very good job in his duty and tried to bring us to the next level by suggesting that we ought to think seriously about practising open evaluation which is a good idea. We should try it sometime.
Not to forget Tan Ben Hoe our cool IPP in his usual style was the Table Topic evaluator, appreciated by everyone.
All in all, it was a successful meeting and everyone had a good time. Our guest, Kumaran who came for the first time was very impressed with our performances decided to join as a member of our club together with Duncan.
Well done guys and gals. Keep it up.
Report by:
Hj Naburi
VPPR
Presidential Invocation at the 160th meeting on 11th Nov., 2008
The President, Hj Hashim had to do the invocation since Khoshim Malim who was assigned to do it did not turn up. The attendance at this meeting was not up to expectation as only 13 members were present. We had 2 guests, Duncan and Kumaran who later signed up to be members and Chen Voon Hann from MIATMC was the General Evaluator and a guest speaker, Wan Chee Wing from Maxis who did advance speech.
Hj Hashim's invocation: "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL"
Have you ever failed or made a mistake? If your answer is "YES" then it's good for you. The fact that you've failed is proof that you're not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback. It's not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes all the difference.
One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, teeter on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake must get awfully tired of doing nothing. If you are not making mistakes, you're not risking enough.
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. Proverbs says, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance."
Remember the old poem that says:
Success is a fiure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are:
it may be near when seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you"re hardest hit;
it's when things seem worse that you must not quit.
(Unknown)
Hj Hashim's invocation: "GET UP WHEN YOU FALL"
Have you ever failed or made a mistake? If your answer is "YES" then it's good for you. The fact that you've failed is proof that you're not finished. Failures and mistakes can be a bridge, not a barricade, to success. Successful people believe that mistakes are just feedback. It's not how far you fall but how high you bounce that makes all the difference.
One of the riskiest things you can do in life is to take too many precautions and never have any failures or mistakes. Failure is the opportunity to start over more intelligently.
No one has ever achieved genuine success who did not, at one time or another, teeter on the edge of disaster. If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. The person who never makes a mistake must get awfully tired of doing nothing. If you are not making mistakes, you're not risking enough.
Vernon Sanders says, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Experience is what you get when you are looking for something else.
Success consists of getting up just one time more than you fall down. So get up and go on. Proverbs says, "A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful, but if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance."
Remember the old poem that says:
Success is a fiure turned inside out,
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are:
it may be near when seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you"re hardest hit;
it's when things seem worse that you must not quit.
(Unknown)
THE POWER OF ...ENCOURAGEMENT, INSPIRATION, ESPRIT DE CORP ..........
Huey Yee..you are indeed an angel, the jewel of the club. You sure "Go The Extra Mile" to write such an enlightening report on the proceedings of our club meeting held the night before on 28th Oct., 2008. I was about to request you to do the write up and yet when I open the blog it's already there, a well written report...kudos to you dear Huey Yee. I would like to appoint you as the official reporter representing the Public Relations Committee which is in the process of being set up. I do hope you accept the appointment and we will discuss further about the proposed PR Committee.
I agree with you 110% that the meeting was really fired up and full of excitement with all the speakers in one way or another making beautiful and impressive speeches invoking inspirations, motivations, encouragements, enthusiasm, and all the positive superlatives and adjectives that you can think off.
Beginning with Paul Tan's Table Topics of mind boggling quotations which really makes your mind start to think hard that drove almost all the speakers to speak out of topics. Perhaps Paul can post all the 11 topics he had prepared into the blog so that we can share all those quotations for future table topic session.
Calista's speech about her superhero grandfather almost put everyone to tears. She told it poignantly with emotions and aptly quoted Napoleon Hill's "Whatever the mind can conceive you can achieve" to describe how the 81 year old grandfather overcame a serious stroke and survive until today. Congratulation calista. Keep it up.
From Sharon who idolise her father we learned how to overcome difficulties and problems in life.:
1. Stop what's not working
2. Start what is working
3. Continue what is working
This is a practical strategy to adopt when one is in the situation of "insanity" not knowing what to do. Many of us is in this life's situation of insanity that is doing the same thing day in day out (over and over and over again ) and expecting different results. Sharon gave us the answer to this. Kudos and Big Thank you Sharon.
The night was full of fun and laughter with the antics of Aziz's unique style of humour and Khoshim's inimitable way of conducting the meeting. Khoshim has proven that with enthusiasm, courage and wanting to be the best of oneself surprised the GE Rohijas that he can conduct the meeting with confidence and in fluent English. Congratulations to Khoshim and Aziz.
Haji Naburi's quotation was "Engage your Brain before you put your mouth into Gear." was well interpreted by Huey Yee.
The performance of our VPE Siew Yin as Acting President while our President Hj Hashim was playing golf in Pekan Baru, Indonesia, was sterling. She is rightfully a President in the making. Touche' Siew Yin. You briefly spoke about John R Wooden's article in the October issue of the Toastmaster's Magazine which I would like to highlight and share some of the important points which are practical and applicable to all of us especially in Toastmasters.
Who is he? John R Wooden is 97 year old who is the greatest basketball coach of the UCLA Basketball Team that won the U.S. National Championship 10 times unprecedentedly. He is Head Basketball Coach, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles.
His famous Quotations, "Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life..early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it."
His definition of SUCCESS, " SUCCESS is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
To him success is NOT the accumulation of material possessions or the achievement of a position of power or prestige.
He made use of what his father said to him."Never Try to be better than someone else. Learn from others."
Based on this definition he invented the PYRAMID OF SUCCESS (Refer pg 18 of Toastmasters Magazine Oct. issue)
WOODEN'S 12 LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP:
1. Good values attract good people
2. Love is the most powerful Four-letter word
3. Call Yourself a Teacher
4. Emotion is your enemy
5. It takes 10 Hands To Make a Basket
6. Little Things Make Big Things Happen
7. Make Each Day Your Masterpiece
8. The Carrot is Mightier Than A Stick
9. Make Greatness Attainable By All
10. Seek Significant Change
11. Don't Look At The Scoreboard
12. Adversity is Your Asset
According to Wooden, one of the greatest motivating tools is a pat on the back. It doesn't have to be a physical pat - it could be a smile, a nod. Everyone likes to be complimented in one way or another.
So fellow Moneymasterians please take note of this. Whenever we take up roles as evaluators or Grammarian be generous with our compliments where deserved and don't forget to mention names to whom the compliments are directed to. Make the members who deserve them "FEEL GOOD" and make their day.
Another technique is LISTENING. A leader must listen to those under their supervision. Get ideas from them. Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame.
CRITICISM must always be given in a gentle way, never harshly.
THREE RULES which he practised for his teams:
1. Never be late. Always be on time. It's very important. Whether to practice,
to the table, to the bus, to your classes.
2. You must never criticize a teammate. That's the leader's job. It's never
your job.
3. I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle
pull you from the court, put you on the bench and talk to you before I
would put you back in.
To him it is far more difficult to get to the TOP.
EFFECTIVE LEADERS are first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business."
How leaders should resolve conflict which is inevitable in any organisation.
Get both parties together and air everything out without trying to hold back anything - not be critical of either one, just try to listen to both sides and find out what might be the trouble. Sometimes the trouble is trivial nothing at all.
Make sure those you lead receive very little criticism, but when there has to be criticism, it must be done in a gentle way that will not be embarrassing, and definitely not in front of others. You may need to take them aside and talk it over, but never do so while you're mad. No yelling; it has to be done in a gentle fashion, and with a pat on the back is the best.
CLUB PRESIDENTS: Listen and Lead with Love.
Leaders must show that they really cared about their members as a person. He cared about their family. Each day: How's your mother? Did the job work out for your dad? Did your brother or sister get that position?
Every leader should do this. You should really care. If you are fooling them, they will catch on.
Leaders must have patience and faith in the people that they lead. They must believe in what they are doing, the proper thing, the right thing.
"We are all guilty at times of wanting things to happen a certain way but not doing everything we are capable of to help that become a reality. We just want it to. And that's not life. That shgouldn't be life"
"Excerpt from THE WOODEN WAY by Craig Harrison, DTM" Toastmasters Magazine Oct. 2008
I agree with you 110% that the meeting was really fired up and full of excitement with all the speakers in one way or another making beautiful and impressive speeches invoking inspirations, motivations, encouragements, enthusiasm, and all the positive superlatives and adjectives that you can think off.
Beginning with Paul Tan's Table Topics of mind boggling quotations which really makes your mind start to think hard that drove almost all the speakers to speak out of topics. Perhaps Paul can post all the 11 topics he had prepared into the blog so that we can share all those quotations for future table topic session.
Calista's speech about her superhero grandfather almost put everyone to tears. She told it poignantly with emotions and aptly quoted Napoleon Hill's "Whatever the mind can conceive you can achieve" to describe how the 81 year old grandfather overcame a serious stroke and survive until today. Congratulation calista. Keep it up.
From Sharon who idolise her father we learned how to overcome difficulties and problems in life.:
1. Stop what's not working
2. Start what is working
3. Continue what is working
This is a practical strategy to adopt when one is in the situation of "insanity" not knowing what to do. Many of us is in this life's situation of insanity that is doing the same thing day in day out (over and over and over again ) and expecting different results. Sharon gave us the answer to this. Kudos and Big Thank you Sharon.
The night was full of fun and laughter with the antics of Aziz's unique style of humour and Khoshim's inimitable way of conducting the meeting. Khoshim has proven that with enthusiasm, courage and wanting to be the best of oneself surprised the GE Rohijas that he can conduct the meeting with confidence and in fluent English. Congratulations to Khoshim and Aziz.
Haji Naburi's quotation was "Engage your Brain before you put your mouth into Gear." was well interpreted by Huey Yee.
The performance of our VPE Siew Yin as Acting President while our President Hj Hashim was playing golf in Pekan Baru, Indonesia, was sterling. She is rightfully a President in the making. Touche' Siew Yin. You briefly spoke about John R Wooden's article in the October issue of the Toastmaster's Magazine which I would like to highlight and share some of the important points which are practical and applicable to all of us especially in Toastmasters.
Who is he? John R Wooden is 97 year old who is the greatest basketball coach of the UCLA Basketball Team that won the U.S. National Championship 10 times unprecedentedly. He is Head Basketball Coach, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles.
His famous Quotations, "Mentors are available at all stages of your leadership life..early, middle and late. Seek them out and listen; absorb their knowledge and use it."
His definition of SUCCESS, " SUCCESS is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."
To him success is NOT the accumulation of material possessions or the achievement of a position of power or prestige.
He made use of what his father said to him."Never Try to be better than someone else. Learn from others."
Based on this definition he invented the PYRAMID OF SUCCESS (Refer pg 18 of Toastmasters Magazine Oct. issue)
WOODEN'S 12 LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP:
1. Good values attract good people
2. Love is the most powerful Four-letter word
3. Call Yourself a Teacher
4. Emotion is your enemy
5. It takes 10 Hands To Make a Basket
6. Little Things Make Big Things Happen
7. Make Each Day Your Masterpiece
8. The Carrot is Mightier Than A Stick
9. Make Greatness Attainable By All
10. Seek Significant Change
11. Don't Look At The Scoreboard
12. Adversity is Your Asset
According to Wooden, one of the greatest motivating tools is a pat on the back. It doesn't have to be a physical pat - it could be a smile, a nod. Everyone likes to be complimented in one way or another.
So fellow Moneymasterians please take note of this. Whenever we take up roles as evaluators or Grammarian be generous with our compliments where deserved and don't forget to mention names to whom the compliments are directed to. Make the members who deserve them "FEEL GOOD" and make their day.
Another technique is LISTENING. A leader must listen to those under their supervision. Get ideas from them. Lead, don't drive. And give credit. Don't blame.
CRITICISM must always be given in a gentle way, never harshly.
THREE RULES which he practised for his teams:
1. Never be late. Always be on time. It's very important. Whether to practice,
to the table, to the bus, to your classes.
2. You must never criticize a teammate. That's the leader's job. It's never
your job.
3. I would not tolerate profanity from anyone, anytime. I'd blow the whistle
pull you from the court, put you on the bench and talk to you before I
would put you back in.
To him it is far more difficult to get to the TOP.
EFFECTIVE LEADERS are first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business."
How leaders should resolve conflict which is inevitable in any organisation.
Get both parties together and air everything out without trying to hold back anything - not be critical of either one, just try to listen to both sides and find out what might be the trouble. Sometimes the trouble is trivial nothing at all.
Make sure those you lead receive very little criticism, but when there has to be criticism, it must be done in a gentle way that will not be embarrassing, and definitely not in front of others. You may need to take them aside and talk it over, but never do so while you're mad. No yelling; it has to be done in a gentle fashion, and with a pat on the back is the best.
CLUB PRESIDENTS: Listen and Lead with Love.
Leaders must show that they really cared about their members as a person. He cared about their family. Each day: How's your mother? Did the job work out for your dad? Did your brother or sister get that position?
Every leader should do this. You should really care. If you are fooling them, they will catch on.
Leaders must have patience and faith in the people that they lead. They must believe in what they are doing, the proper thing, the right thing.
"We are all guilty at times of wanting things to happen a certain way but not doing everything we are capable of to help that become a reality. We just want it to. And that's not life. That shgouldn't be life"
"Excerpt from THE WOODEN WAY by Craig Harrison, DTM" Toastmasters Magazine Oct. 2008
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