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TALKMAGIC TOASTMASTERS CLUB-MEETING #435

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THEME: Celebration of Equality, Fairness & Prosperity.

WORD OF THE DAY (WOD):

Embodiment-a (meaning) tangible form of an idea.

SAA address : TM Boniface

  • Started the meeting and conducted ice breaker activity.
  • Explained the ground rules and reinforced club mission.

President’s address: TM Harry

  • Welcomed guests and introduced the theme of the day.
  • Iterated the significance ofcelebrating festivals.

Toast Master’s Of the Day: TM Annie

  • Introduced meeting’s theme and explained meeting structure.
  • Special Onam Performance: by Gavelier Priyanka.

General Evaluator: TM shashidhar

  • Reiterated value of feedback in meeting.
  • Introduced his TAGL team and gave appropriate feedback.

Timer: TM Asha

Ah-counter: TM Vadivel

Grammarian: TM Zahar

Listener: TM Vidya

SPEAKER 1: TM Srinath L3 Elective; EVALUATOR DTM Geetha

– The transition from being an electrical engineer to a software engineer.
– Differences of culture between India and the US always follow your heart.

  • Contrast used well.
  • Good Gestures and body language.
  • Spoke with great passion and conviction.
  • Add emotions into stories.
  • use more repeatable statements.

SPEAKER 2: TM Hitendra- L3 Elective; EVALUATOR TM Pruthvi

– Raised a toast to his son-Rohit.
– How Rohit worked hard to become successful.
– How Rohit has been very supportive.

  • Wonderfully crafted toast.
  • Good usage of words
  • Excellent expressions
  • Focus on eye contact.
  • Work on phase, power and pause.

SPEAKER 3: TM Theerdha- L4P1; EVALUATOR TM Thejovathi

– Handled 4 types of interrupters by addressing their questions/statements.
– Talked about the ‘Road Safety Club’ that she started.
– Presentation at the District Collector’s Office.
– How failures are blessings in disguise.

  • Calm and composed.
  • Focused on emphasizing points.
  • Professionalism is well embedded.
  • Engage the audience in the middle of the speech as well.
  • Proactively request members.

Table Topics: TM Ramesh

Rules:

TTM shared few topics and members were asked to talk for or against the topic within 1-2 minutes

Speakers:

  • Guest Theerdha
  • Guest Pushpa
  • TM Balakrishnan
  • TM Jagadeep
  • TM Amlan
  • TM Harry
  • Guest Hitendra
  • TM Boniface

SPECIAL MENTION

  1. Fabulous dance performed by Gavelier Priyanka as part of Onam celebration.
  2. Area contest has been finalized for 24 October 2021.
  3. Club contest will include Evaluation and Table Topic categories.
  4. Moments of Truth on 28 August 2021.
  5. Meeting Rating: Good – 11% ,Very Good – 58% ,Excellent – 26%

WINNERS

BEST SPEAKER: Guest Theerdha

BEST EVALUATOR: DTM Geetha

BEST ROLE TAKER: TM Annie

BEST TT SPEAKER: DTM Geetha

BEST TAGL ROLE: TM Zahar, TM Zahar

TALKMAGIC TOASTMASTERS CLUB-MEETING #433

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SAA’s address : TM Boniface

-Started the meeting and conducted ice breaker activity.
-explained the ground rules and reinforced the club mission.

President’s address: TM Harry

– Welcomed guests and introduced the theme of the day by connecting with the fall and rise of online food delivery company Swiggy.

TMoD: TM Ramesh

– Introduced the meeting’s theme and explained the meeting structure.

– Explained the importance of Atomic habits

GE: TM Thangamma

– Reiterated value of feedback in the meeting.
-Introduced her TAGL team and gave appropriate feedback.

Timer: TM Lakshmi

Ah-counter: TM Asha

Grammarian : TM Pramila

Listener: TM Bharath

SPEAKER 1: TM Gary- L2P2; EVALUATOR: TM Amlan

– Shared his personal experience in his family function.
– The first impression is not the last impression.

  • Shared his personal experience in his
  • family function
  • first impression is not the last impression
  • Need to improve vocal variety in gestures.
  • Focus on body movement.
  • Add more points in conclusion, utilize full allotted time

SPEAKER 2: TM Thejovathy- L2P 3; EVALUATOR: TM Shuvendu

-Explained the difference between Coach and mentor
-Mentoring is all about personal experience.
-She talked about her mentors

  • Wonderfully structured speech
  • Great Gestures
  • Good usage of quotes.
  • Great Enthusiasm
  • Build story with reasons
  • Relate the story in the middle of the story as well

Table Topics: TM Vidhya

Rules:

TTM asked few questions related to the theme.

TT Speakers:

  • TM Suresh
  • TM Srinath
  • Guest Sowmya
  • TM Jagadeep
  • Guest Pratheek
  • TM Chetna

Educational session: DTM Mathew

  • Modify the speech to magnify the message.
  • Explained ground rules of Evaluation.
  • How to do effective Evaluation?
  • How to show up?
  • shared a few Don’ts while evaluating.

SPECIAL MENTION

  1. Fancy dress competition on Independence day.
  2. TM Thejovathy completed Level 2 in Leadership Development Pathways

WINNERS

BEST SPEAKER: TM Thejovathy

BEST EVALUATOR: TM Shuvendu

BEST ROLE TAKER: TM Thangamma

BEST TT SPEAKER: TM Suresh

BEST TAGL ROLE: TM Pramila

Talkmagic Toastmasters – Club Meeting No. 205 (04/03/2017)

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The meeting was a pre contest held to enable members get ready for the actual club level contest to be held on 18.3.2017.
The atmosphere was a bit tense feeling like pre boards.
Specially keeping sync with the venue :‘ St.Vincent Palloti College ‘
To add to the tense atmosphere was the change of the familiar regular classroom to an alien 1st floor classroom.

The pre contest started with the energetic opening address by SAA TM Annie

The pre contest was chaired by TM Srivatsan. His professionalism was evident in his superb handling of the show.
The first session was for the prepared speeches showcasing the 3 contestants :
  • TM Sharanya
  • TM Anindita
  • TM Jane
This was followed by the Table Topic Session  which had higher participation.
The topic given was, ‘It’s better to be feared than loved’
Participants were:
TM Shruti, TM Muzib, TM Jane, TM Sharanya, TM Anindita and TM Anu.
Finally the results were announced by the Chief Judge TM Geetha.
And the winner for both both Prepared speech and Table Topics precontest was Toastmaster Anindita (Lady Shakespeare).
Sincerely,
Talkmagic Toastmasters Ex-Com

P.S.- The interview session conducted by Contest Chair in between the sessions was great.

The topic for the TT session was similar to my mental condition. I love all my fellow talkmagicians but am a bit scared of some which prevented me from dropping out of the contest.
Thanks to Srivatsan for continuous follow ups. And to the veterans without whose guidance we would be stagnant.
Last but not the least the cherry on the cake was the impromptu birthday party thrown by Prakash.
Actually the yummy cake is all that we remember.
Click here to see pictures from the event:

Talkmagic Toastmasters – Club Outing 2017

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Dear Friends,

On the 26th of February 2017, members of Talkmagic Toastmasters went on a special outing to the Gold Finch Resort near Bengaluru International Airport to bond, laugh & rejoice.

Most members of Talkmagic attended the outing along with their families.

We conducted a lot of games, relished a grand buffet breakfast and lunch and brought out our ‘inner child’.

Take a look at the pictures on our Facebook Page here:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/talkmagictoastmasters/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1274515195947528

Talkmagic Toastmasters – Club Meeting No. 200 (28/01/2017)

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The countdown had begun since word went round that Talkmagic Toastmasters Club were planning a gala show.

The theme decided was: ‘We didn’t come this far to only come this far.’

WOD – ‘Exuberant ‘

What a wonderfully decorated venue courtesy our versatile ASAA TM Sharanya.

The milestone meet commenced at 3:05pm by ASAA TM Sharanya .

Then Talkmagic ‘s dynamic President Shashidhar gave his inspiring footballer tale to add to the  exuberant  spirit⚽.

The stage was then taken by our wonderful, steadfast TMOD TM Jane

She took us down the nostalgic journey of the  struggles of the founders of Talkmagic Toastmasters. A lively quiz in between about Toastmasters International spuced up the show.

She introduced the GE of the  meeting evergreen, illustrious DTM Geetha Prasanna.

GE DTM Geetha explained the GE’s role and called upon her TAG Team.

Timer⏰ – TM Feba

Ah counter – TM Harry

Grammarian – TM Anindita

Listener – TM Baburaj

TMOD started the prepared speech section :

1.CC05 by TM Srivatsan evaluated by TM Neelesh

A wonderful step by step  guide to  befriend strangers.

2.ACB P2 by TM Theju evaluated by panellists

TM Prakash,TM Sunil and TM Mathew.

A captivating storytelling session.

Then came the educational session conducted by the veteran TM Dirish Mohan.

Lots of tips for aspiring  contestants for the international speech contest.

Then came the hilarious TTM TM Anish with his role plays termed ‘Improv’.

Participants were put through routines that made people overtly  exuberant.  ..

TMOD Jane called upon the GE DTM Geetha to evaluate the  meeting.

After the individual evaluators, she asked her TAG Team to give their reports. Listener Baburaj had a quiz to check attentiveness but the married women didn’t get the .

The best part was the GE’s  individual observations which took the evaluation to another level.

Finally TMOD handed over the meeting to President Shashidhar who in the true spirit of celebrations gave away the prizes and concluded Talkmagic’smilestone 200th meeting

The party continued under the Bodhi Tree with yummy snacks.