AMD Cyberjaya Toastmasters Club 3rd Meeting

Location: AMD Global Services Cyberjaya Office
Date: 27th July 2011
Time:1800-2000

Objective:
For all members to gain experience on how to run a meeting.
Encourage members to talk in front of an audience and complete their achievement modules.
Give opportunities for members to take part in the meeting either as speakers or role players

Agenda/Minutes
President's Address - Tanes-Kumar N-Maniam
Club's President, Tanes gave welcome speech and address the fellow toastmasters and welcome guests.

Toastmaster of the Evening - Hasbullah Harun
TM Hasbullah , the Toastmasters of the Evening explained on the meeting agenda and call out each role player to explain on their roles and responsibilities.

Table Topic Session
Table Topic Master N-Maniam, Tanes-Kumar
During this portion of the meeting, club members (and willing guests) practice impromptu speaking by responding to questions or topics prepared by the Table Topics Master. Sometimes the topics are simple, such as "My Favourite Holiday", and sometimes they are more challenging, focusing on issues of the day, such as Elections, the Olympics, Health, Education or Crime, where you may be required to give an opinion, or argue a point of view.
The Table Topic Speakers in this meeting are :

1. Kadir, Nabila - Who would I like to live for 1 day 
2. Ahmad-Osman, Norman - What is your dream job 
3. Zakaria, Siti-Zalikha - What are the 7 wonders of the world according to you 
4. Lau, Jien-Tsun - What one question would you ask a psychic on your future 
5. Harle, Michele - If I had to choose my own name, what would it be

Table Topic Evaluation by TM Barry Ong

TM Barry Ong gave his evaluation to all the table topic speaker, included some suggestion and pressing on how it is very important to organize our speech.

Also, he was impressed with speakers who were diverting their speech from the topic since it will attract the audience.

Project Speakers session
In this section, Toastmasters practice their public speaking skills by giving a prepared presentation from the Communication and Leadership Programmes. Each project in every manual has a specific objective in an area that helps you practice different speaking techniques. These objectives are designed as guidelines to help you think about the various qualities that comprise a good speech. Some speakers may be giving an icebreaker, while others may be trying to persuade you to their point of view, or inform you about technical issues relating to their hobby or occupation. You'll learn something new with every speech you listen to!
The Project Speaker and their topic in this meeting were :

Speakers for Ice Breaker project and their topic in this meeting were :

1. N-Maniam, Tanes-Kumar - Why F is not a bad letter
2. Narayanan, Muhammad-Rashid - Myself
3. Harun, Hasbullah - Myself
4. Awang, Aslina - Myself
5. Ramnawal, Dropati - Journey of my life that is full of exploration

Speaker for Organize Your Speech project is :

1. Abd-Rahman, Asmah - Y2K

Project Speech and General Evaluation

In this session, all the evaluators presented their evaluation project speakers.

The evaluators for this meeting are :

1. Speech Evaluator TM Shirley gave her evaluation for Project Speaker Tanes and Asmah.
2. Speech Evaluator TM Jamila gave evaluation for Project Speaker Rashid and Aslina.
3. Speech Evaluator TM Vallie gave evaluation for Project Speaker Hasbullah. and Dropati.
4. General Evaluator TM Rosa gave her evaluation on overall meeting. Some of her points are :
   1. She was impressed with the enthusiasm from all speakers and audience.
   2. Table Topic Master have to always remind the speaker on the time and creates more simpler table topics.
   3. Same like what TM Barry Ong mentioned, she also stressed once again on how important to come prepared and to organize your speech.
   4. She suggest that the Timer use more interesting way such as using flashing lights or ask audience to clap hands once the speaker has run out of his / her time.

Report

All the Role Players in this meeting presented their report, they are:

1. Ah Counter's Report - Yuen Chi
2. Grammarian's Report - John
3. Timer's Report - Liza

Closing

Meeting closed with the speech from Club's President Tanes.

Report prepared by: Asmah Abd Rahman