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| Word of the day: Hankering |
Do
you still remember your dreams? Are you having the hankering to achieve your
dreams?
This could be a tough question for some people, but not to the bunch of people that allocate their busy schedule to attend the Toastmasters meeting of Money Mastery-KL.
That’s right, ladies and gentlemen, those attending Toastmasters meeting has their mind hankering to become a confident, successful public speaker and leader.
To make that dream come true to these dedicated Toastmasters, massive action has to be taken to overcome any challenges that come in the way, including meeting online even though the physical meeting is not conducive during this pandemic era.
At 7pm, members, role players gradually ‘warmed up’ the Zoom meeting room with greetings and laughter. Thanks for their punctuality, the meeting was able to start at 7.15pm according to the schedule.
The theme of this meeting as mentioned earlier, could be the easiest and yet the toughest questions to the members. I noticed that some members that have their goals clear in mind, confidently shared their hankerings with proud; others who were yet to determine their future directions, would have a good moment to do self-reflection after this meeting.
I really missed the Invocation Session. KL Loh, ATMG brought us the story of WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum, on how his hankering of making worldwide communication easier and free, that led to the founding of WhatsApp application. So, guys, with strong will and action, your hankering can turn into reality.
One crucial skill that Toastmasters got to pick up in the meeting is to challenge impromptu speaking, the Table Topics® Session. Table Topics® Master made good effort to ask the most pertinent questions about the participants, goal, viewpoints that jive around the theme, “Never Let Go of Your Dreams”.
However, Toastmasters do train its members on the prepared speeches. To kickstart the Prepared Speech session, Chloe Lau was the first on stage to deliver the project 2 of Pathway Level 1 which titled “Love or Hurt”. She spoke about how the parents’ over-pursuing of their children’s academic excellence, turned into hurt to their children.
The next speaker is Rey Thean, PM2. she shared with the audience a persuasive speaking project with the title “Is 2020 the Right Time to Buy Property?” The speaker was obviously clear that she would not leave the audience wonder on the question she asked in the title again. She had obviously laid out all the valid reasons and concrete proof that the time is now! Well done on that convincing attempt.
The last speaker of the night is Mathew Philippose, EC3, who brought us a heart warming personal stories on how he coached his subordinate on the job. His speech title is “Opening Doors of Opportunity”. Mathew gave hsi full support and encouragement to his subordinate, just like how he also gave the same support and encouragement to our fellow members.
The meeting called for a short break, and to be taken over by the General Evaluator (GE) when we returned.
The first evaluator to take the spotlight was your truly Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB as the Table Topics® Evaluator. I carefully evaluated every speakers with their strength and notes for improvement, as well as tips on attempting Table Topics®. Unfortunately that made the session went over time and GE commented to me to be more watchful of time management. I duly take the feedback with open heart.
The second project speech evaluator was CS Ong, PM2, evaluating our new member Chloe Lau. Chloe had been diligently delivering speeches in our meeting. Her quick improvement in the speech delivery including body language, tonality and effort in speech preparation had impressed CS Ong a lot.
The second speech evaluator was Chester Liam, MS2 from Extol Toastmasters. Chester’s evaluation style on Rey was ‘contest-ready’ according to GE, as the evaluation was very inclusive with the observation of speech content, delivery style and suggestions for improvement.
The third project speech evaluator was CP Lau, DTM. CP expressed his appreciation on the effort Mathew gave to his subordinate. CP also suggested Mathew to give measurable success factors in his coaching conducts so that he could know his subordinate has been ready to be independent.
Our club always gave additional air time to members to give extra input during the open evaluation session. This short 5 minutes can sometimes gave more perspective and in-depth feedback to the speakers.
GE enjoyed the meeting in MMKL, as well as praised MMKL’s practice of giving opportunity to everyone to speak, always become the excellent club among the area and division level. However, GE also hope that we could improve the slides used by the TME during the introduction.
President Julia returned to the stage for he closing speech. She also announced the best performers of the night. Here’s the list of the winners,
Best Table Topics® Speaker: Amira (guest)
Best
Speech Evaluator: CP Lau, DTM
Best
Project Speaker: Chloe Lau
The meeting ended around 9.45pm and we would not forget to capture a group photo with every attendees in the frame.
Blog Writer: Ron Yeap, ACG, ALB
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