This was the
time when Malaysian athletes were making records in RIO Olympic 2016 and
successfully they managed to bag total five medals including four silver and
one bronze for Malaysia. What a proud moment. This was the sign of roseate
future for Malaysians. This is why our
Toastmasters in Money mastery –KL Toastmasters club thought to have theme of
the day Olympic game, many of us introduced ourselves describing the purpose of
Olympic game and meaning of the five interlocking rings. It was very interesting
and warm rounds of introduction from each Toastmasters and guests later. This
was one of the memorable days for Money mastery – KL Toastmasters club where
three beautiful ladies took a winning step in her life and joined us to start their
toastmaster’s journey together with us. It was a great moment.
Let me remember concisely, it was 9th
August 2016, Tuesday, kicked off our meeting to order at 7:15pm by our sweet, pretty,
young and energetic SAA (Sergeant At Arms) Yap Ooi Yee. As per her role tonight she begun with
explaining the House Rules and then recited “The Toastmaster’s Promises” along
with the Toastmasters members. After that she passed the control to our newly
elected club President Ron Yeap, CC to take this
meeting forward. Toastmaster Yap Ooi Yee, well done!
Our club President Ron Yeap took over the
control and explained a little about the theme of the day which is coincided
with the current world sport event Olympic Game in Rio, Brazil and set the
meeting where all can speak their own minds from introduction to the end of the
meeting and that was amazing to feel and continue speaking. He also invited our charming
Grammarian, toastmaster Chitirra to tell us word of the day with some examples. Word of the day was “Roseate” in her sweet and audible voice. This is her 1st time to take up this
role. Chitirra, Kudos to your courage to carry out your duty diligently. Mr.
President also encouraged all the members and guests to use Theme of The Day
and Word of the Day during self-introduction because "The more you practice, the more you learn".After
the individual introduction Mr. President Ron Yeap passed the control
to the Toastmaster who is charming, sweet and very friendly Toastmaster of The
Evening (TME) Wendy Sim.
Wendy
began with her million dollar smile to brief on the History of Toastmasters
International especially to our guests Joel and Omer who is not a Toastmaster
member. She invited the role players to explain their objectives as per their
role:
“Ah” Counter –Toastmaster Cheng Seng San,
Timer – Toasmaster, Wenny
Loh 1st time,
General Evaluator – Boon
Sin Cheng, ACB. ALB
This was the time for Table Topics speeches
which is also called impromptu speech. Members and guests are encouraged to
participate in this 2 minutes speech. This session handled very well by our new
Toastmaster member Table Topics Master a sweet, energetic and roseate young
lady Mandy Chan.
The topics given to each participant were
related to the Theme of the day “Olympic Game”. Participants of the Table Topics
are:
Table Topics Speaker who volunteered them selves
Members:
Manish Kumar
Vijayakumar
Our Guests
Joel and Omer
Evaluator: Tan Ben Hoe, CC, CL summarized
that each participants have spoken on their own feet very well in their
delivery, also highlighted the strength and weakness to improve using sandwich evaluation method.
Assigned Speech Session
From, Competent
Communication manual
CS Quah, TM – Speech
No. 2: Organize your speech with speech title “Is Ritual Important to your
life”. This is the 2nd
attempt by him with confidence, audible voice and perfect hand gesture. He explained as our daily rituals like bathing,
brushing teeth etc are important to us to clean from the outside, similarly we
must follow some daily rituals to clean from our inside like mediation, yoga,
gym which are really essential and audience got a nice reminder that day to start
few rituals which will not just keep you clean and clear from the outside but
also from the inside.
CS’s
Evaluator: KL Loh, ATMG encouraged that your speech was worth listening
and showed him ways like real Ways(mobile GPS app) multiple path to improve his speech from the
next delivery and advised him to keep practicing. This journey indeed, will
make you an effective communicator and speaker. You have great potential as a speaker.
Our next 2nd seasoned and entertaining
speaker, any guess please?
Relax, he is none other than, Ken Chan, DTM
(Distinguished Toastmaster) – He was doing his Speech No. 4 from competent
communication manual: - How to say it, with speech title “C is King”.
Ken,
as usual came up with an intriguing topic. It was indeed interesting and useful.
He intrigued and asked C means? After pondering at lot someone from the
crowed finally made a correct guess” means “CUSTOMER”. Is it sounds familiar to
you? He said; treat your customer as a GUEST. Which means?
G- Greet the customer
U- Understand their needs
E- Explain features and benefits
S- Suggest additional items
T- Thank the customer.
Learning-
Customer is really King in business so
always have a genuinely positive attitude and willing to go out of your way to
help a guest and satisfy their needs. They will be yours.
Evaluator: Dr.Thilla, ACB, ACG
commented on speech delivered by Ken was inspiring and informative. You have
met all the objectives from the speech objectives. Congratulations and looking forward to hear your next
speech.
Speech from Management Manual
Ron
Yeap (Competent communicator)-Speech No. 1: The
briefing with speech title “Youth Leadership Program Briefing”
This topic was selected by him based on YLP
(Youth Leadership Program).
How beneficial this program is for kids
from the age 13 to 18 years which is going to be held in August 2016, also as
per his past experience he added, how it benefited to the every participant,
facilitators, role players, speakers and all the kids aspirants. Toastmasters
conduct Youth leadership program to make a kid fluent and an effective
communicator to open many opportunities in their life. He added what are the
challenges he faced as an organising chair to plan the next event successful.
So far the audience were expecting real event is going to happen in august.
Audience realised it was just a speech only after the completion of his speech.
Ron’s Evaluator: Mathew P. CC, ALB
encouraged and acknowledged his wonderful speech and added points for
improvements like mange your time well which is not really acceptable in
Toastmasters.
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Conclusion
During the Toastmasters club meeting, applause and
encouragement are the key factors to motivate the members and the participation of
guests.
The induction for the new members Chitirra, Wenny and Mandy was done by
TME Wendy Sim. Also mentors were
assigned to the new members to comfortably learn and grow. Dr. Thilla was announced
as a mentor for Chitirra and CP Lau as a mentor for both Mandy Chan and Wenny Loh. Especially
as a new member, they need to concur their stage fear to enable them to continue
their journey, improve public speaking skills in speeches, also leadership skills
by taking up the roles as they have already done today. Kudos to all of them were able
to take up the role diligently. As first time timer, table topic master and Language evaluator. The support of other
members are important to lead them though the course of Toastmaster journey.
Completion of the 10 speeches from the Competent Communication Manual (CC) are challenging. Some members make it only within the couple of months. Completing Competent Leadership manual (CL) with
number of roles to fulfill in each project is another education which is also
challenging. It is important to bring your CL manual and get it filled up every
time you do the roles in the meeting like Timer, SAA, Grammarian, Table topic
master, evaluator, Ah Counter etc. At the end, our General evaluator Boon sing Cheng- ACB,ALB shared his report as his general observation over the entire meeting and suggested us how to
do more quality meetings.
It was time to adjourn the meeting. So, Mr. president Ron Yeap exactly by 9:45 pm as per the agenda, announced that the meeting is adjourned now while knocking on lectern with gavel in his hand, also wished all the August babies a sweet happy birthday followed by sweet cake
cutting –Ooi Yee, CS Quah, Ben Hoe and Kelvin Chong “Happy Birthday,
Healthy and Prosperous”. It was a lovely meeting with lovely people in this evening. Thank you all toastmasters and distinguished guest. Hope, see you again.
Sincerely yours,
Ekey Yeo. CC, CL
