Location: Wonder Women,AMD Global Services Cyberjaya Office
Date: 14th September 2011
Time:1830-2030
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. He explained that meeting will proceed without external evaluators and guests and mentioned that this is a chance for us to practice becoming an evaluators.
He talked about the theme (diversity) and word of the day (Peace) in conjunction with the Merdeka day- how we should put side all the differences between us and live together in peace and harmony as 1Malaysia.
Toastmaster of the Evening - Ramnawal, Dropati
TM Dropati , the Toastmasters of the Evening explained on the meeting agenda and call out each role player to explain on their roles and responsibilities.
General Evaluator - TM John Nitis
Grammarian - TM Viji Malon
Ah-Counter - TM Amira
Timer - TM Hasbullah
Table Topic Session
Table Topic Master TM Aslina Awang
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 and their topics for this meeting were :
TM Norliza Saat - If you are a super Hero, what / who would you be?
TM Fairizul - Your favorite color
TM Mohd Aizat - If you need to choose between love and work, what would you choose?
TM Lau, Jien-Tsun -If you can go to a place, where would that be?
TM Nurfiedayu - Give out a speech assuming you are a top 10 candidate in Miss World competition.
Table Topic Evaluation - TM Mohamed Annuar Mohamed
TM Annuar gave his evaluation to all the table topic speaker, giving good and constructive feedbacks, as well as improvement suggestions.
All table topic speakers have done a job well done!
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!
In this meeting we have speakers who did their speech for 3 different projects.
Speakers for Ice Breaker project and their topic in this meeting were :
- TM Remy Tan Tze Hup - Do Re Mi
- TM Zaini Hussain- ZAINI
- TM Hadi Hazizuddin Nasaruddin - Myself
Speaker for Project 2 (Organize Your Speech) is :
- TM Heemi Fazeree Hanif
Speaker for Project 3 which is Getting to the Point is:
- TM Asmah Abd. Rahman - Do Parents Know the Best?
Project Speech Evaluation and Reports
In this session, all the evaluators presented their evaluation project speakers. General Evaluator, TM John Nitis called upon all the speech evaluator to come in front and present their evaluation.
The evaluators for this meeting are :
Speech Evaluator TM Kam Yuen Chi gave her evaluation for Project 1 Speaker TM Remy, and Project 3 Speaker TM Asmah.
Speech Evaluator TM Tanes gave evaluation for Project 1 Speaker TM Hadi Hazizuddin.
Speech Evaluator TM Norman gave evaluation for Project Speaker 2 TM Heemi Fazeree.
TM John Nitis then called upon all the role players to present their reports :
- Ah Counter's Report - TM Amira Alim
- Grammarian's Report - TM Viji
- Timer's Report - TM Hasbullah
General Evaluator and Invocator evaluation
At the end, General Evaluator TM John Nitis gave his evaluation on overall meeting. Some of his points are :
He liked the spirit and enthusiasm from all the members who attend the meeting.
He suggested that all the role players have a 10-15 minutes discussion before the meeting to iron out things if they didn’t turn up as per plan eg changes on the role players or getting the title for each speech.
He also commented that all the speech evaluator were too much depending on the manual to give evaluation. Giving that this is the first time all of them become speech evaluators this was a great experience and hope we can learn to become great speech evaluators.
Lastly, there is a recommendation from TM John Nitis to all speech evaluators - they should mention in the beginning of their presentation that the evaluations are based on their personal opinion rather than from a Toastmaster club as a whole.
Awards
The President, TM Tanes announce the winners of the awards for this week, based on voting from all attendees.
- Best Table Topic - TM Aizat
- Best Speaker - TM Zaini
- Best Evaluator - TM Norman
Congratulations!!
Closing
We close the meeting with speech from Mr President. Meeting adjourned at 8:30PM.
Report prepared by: Asmah Abd Rahman
