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TALKMAGIC TOASTMASTERS CLUB-MEETING #432

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ICE BREAKER MARATHON

SAA’s address: TM Varsha

– Started the meeting and conducted ice breaker activity.

– Explained the ground rules and reinforced the club mission.

President’s address: TM Harry

– Welcomed guests

– Introduced theme of the day by connecting with the story of Boxing champion Mohammed Ali.

TMoD: TM Mohan

– Introduced meeting’s theme and explained meeting structure.

– Explained the importance of taking the first step.

GE: TM Jane

– Reiterated value of feedback in the meeting.

– Introduced her TAGL team and gave appropriate feedback.

TAGL:

  • Timer: TM Bharath
  • Ah-counter: TM Prakash
  • Grammarian: TM Srinath
  • Listener: TM Jagadeep

SPEAKER 1: TM Ramesh Gupta- Ice breaker; EVALUATOR TM Nixon

– Shared his educational background and his experience in the banking and IT industry.
– Currently working as program director of Oracle development

  • Confident and authentic
  • Very well explained about dreams, social service activities, family members.

SPEAKER 2: TM Lakshmi- Ice breaker; EVALUATOR TM Pruthvi

– Shared childhood experiences and education background
– Shared her different adventures.

  • Great introduction, great usage of words and anecdotes.
  • The flow of speech is good.

SPEAKER 3: TM Boniface- Ice breaker; EVALUATOR TM Anjali

– Talked about his family members and shared his work experience and education.
– Reasons for joining Toastmasters

  • Smiling, good eye contact, comfortable in delivering speech.
  • Great clarity of speech

SPEAKER 4: TM Zahar- Ice breaker; EVALUATOR TM Gary

– Shared her education, hobbies, native place introduced her family members
– Listed her journey to become a doctor.

  • Started well with a quote, excellent clarity, hand gestures and voice modulation

SPEAKER 5: TM Nilofer- Ice breaker; EVALUATOR TM Suresh

– Introduced her family members
– Shared her education details

  • Self assured with great confidence
  • Transition is smooth and seemless
  • Good story telling technique.

Table Topics : TM Amlan

Rules:

TTM shared few pics and he asked members to talk about the
pictures for 2 minutes

TT Speakers:

  • TM Ramesh
  • TM Balakrishnan
  • TM chetna
  • Guest Aishwarya
  • TM Nixon

SPECIAL MENTION:

  1. Excom team finalized some Awards to issue like Kingmaker award, Fast and Furious Award, Rapid Fire Award, World Champion award.
  2. TM Srinath took up Joke Master Role to lighten up our moods
  3. Special meeting with Quiz on 14-Aug
  4. Special meeting wit Onam on 21-Aug
  5. Moments of Truth – 28 -Augt
  6. Meeting Rating Extremely Good – 57%, Very Good- 33%, Good- 10%

WINNERS:

BEST SPEAKER: TM Zahar, TM Nilofer

BEST EVALUATOR: TM Suresh

BEST ROLE TAKER: TM Jane

BEST TT SPEAKER: TM Balakrishnan

BEST TAGL ROLE: TM Prakash

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.
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Talkmagic Toastmasters – Club Meeting No. 199 (21/01/2017)

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Our 199th meeting was enriched with words of wisdom and advocated ‘The Middle Path‘ as the secret to building world-class relationships with people (in your home or outside your home).

The theme for the meeting was ‘Tact Is The Art Of Driving A Point Without Making An Enemy’, and the word of the day – Tenacity.

SAA Toastmaster Annie calmly took the stage and told us the tale of George Bernard Shaw and how he was born timid.

To overcome his timidity, Bernard Shaw enrolled himself in a Debate Club and how through his newfound courage, he eventually went on to influence & shape Western Theater, culture & politics.

Just like the legendary George Bernard Shaw, we too have our struggles with timidity and low self-confidence. To overcome this, some of us choose Toastmasters.

Then came the Presidential Address from TM Shashidhar Hedge who took us back a few centuries and introduced to us the man who discovered gravity – Sir Isaac Newton.

He also spoke about the well-known 3 laws of Motion and drew a correlation with Toastmasters.

Soon, Toastmaster of the Day Anindita Sengupta took center stage and unveiled the mystery behind the theme ‘Tact is the art of driving a point without making an enemy’.

She shared that most people tend to lead lives in either of the 2 extremes:

– Being very nice and pleasing to people

– Or being critical of everything

And then told us that we live in a world where we need to follow Tact and advocated the ‘Middle Path’.

A CC2 by Toastmaster Sharanya soon followed with a beautiful speech about the importance of language, it’s chronological evolution and how it is just a tool to communicate.

As Hunger is to Live, Language is to Communicate is the one lesson that we can take away from this speech.

Then came the CC3 speech by Toastmaster Ramesh Anand.

An international poet by profession, Toastmaster Ramesh took center stage and spoke about the importance of passion in our lives.

In addition, he also shared 2 interesting stories – one of which involved his friend who is now an International Level Cricket Umpire associated with the BCCI.

Then came a captivating, engrossing and frightening speech from Toastmaster Shree Nidhi (a CC4) which spoke about spirits and their existence.

The title of her speech was ‘Man & Mystery’ and it certainly sent chills down the spine of many Toastmasters who were gathered.

To add to the engrossing Prepared Speeches session, we had an ACB4 speech by TM Sunil Raghavan which was a captivating tale about Vasundhra, a sportsperson & how she qualified for the National Level Championship.

Toastmaster Muzib Ahmed took center stage as the Table Topics Master & delivered a crackling session filled with laughter.

Seasoned Toastmaster Dr. Chaya took over the proceedings as General Evaluator and shared her wisdom on how we can improve as a club.

Her role was well-supported by a tag team consisting of Timer TM Shruthi K, Grammarian TM Anish & Aah Counter TM Ajmal.

In addition, individual evaluators Toastmaster Harry Ramsay (for Sharanya’s speech), Toastmaster Ajith (for Ramesh’s speech) & Toastmaster Jane Placid (for Shree Nidhi’s speech) provided constructive feedback points on how each individual can improve as a speaker.

As a new practice, the Vice President Education Baburajan introduced Panel Evaluations for all Advanced Level Speakers to go from Good to Great.

And today, we had our first Panel Evaluation for Toastmaster Sunil Raghavan’s ACB4 speech.

The panel consisted of Seasoned Toastmasters DTM Geetha Prasanna, TM Baburajan & TM Prakash Francis.

Sunil Raghavan’s speech was broken down bit by bit and a comprehensive evaluation was provided for him to work on it and make it great.

TMOD Anindita handed over the proceedings of the meeting to President TM Shashidhar Hedge who declared the winners and his concluding address.

Winners:

  1. Best Speaker – TM Shree Nidhi from Mount Carmel Toastmasters Club Bangalore (CC4)
  2. Best Table Topics Speaker – TM Ajmal from Mount Carmel Toastmasters
  3. Best Evaluator – Distinguished Toastmaster Geetha Prasanna (ACB4 Evaluation)

This was then followed by networking over snacks under the mango tree 🙂

Keep Going!

Sincerely,

Talkmagic Toastmasters PR Team

PS: To see pictures from our event, please visit our FB page.

 

Talkmagic Toastmasters – Club Meeting No. 197 (07/01/2017)

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First meeting of the year 2017 began with a bang.

The theme for the meeting was Explorations and the word of the day Neurogenesis.

Harry Ramsay drove home the message that we needed to explore and explore new places often… So we can be fresh, lively and young always.

A CC2 speech from our member Feba Peter drove home the fact that we needed to respect and appreciate a third gender amongst us – the transgenders.

… Which was followed by an entertaining Table Topics Session from Srivatsanathan Swaminathan who took us from “Poor Health Is In The Mind” to Nicknames featuring “Boo Boo” and finally “Plans for the future of our world”.

As usual, Toastmaster Saleem as the general evaluator owned the stage with his calm, confident poise and drove home the points that we needed to improve on with help from Speech Evaluator Theju, Grammarian Ramesh Anand, Ah Counter Anindita & Timer Veera.

We also had the induction with a new executive committee being formed under the presence of area director Thangamma Kalappa Karthamada.

Immediate Past President George Johnson passed on his leadership role to his successor Shashidhar Hegde who took centre stage and inspired us with his tale of how Toastmasters has helped him outgrow from a shy chartered accountant who avoided promotions so he didn’t have to socialize to someone who leads from the front and runs teams all over the world.

Kudos to Toastmasters, District 92 and Talkmagic Toastmasters!

Keep going!

Sincerely,

Talkmagic Toastmasters PR Team

PS: Click here to see pictures from the meeting.