D'Utama Advanced Toastmasters Club

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Next Regular Meeting - 12th November 2009

Dear toastmasters and friends,

See you on the 12th November 2009! Don't miss this.

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Our Next Regular Meeting - 12 November 2009 (Thu)

Dear Toastmasters

D'Utama Advanced Toastmasters Club
Regular Meeting : 12 November 2009 (Thursday)
Kolej Damansara Utama, Room 1.08
7.30pm - 10.00pm
Door Fee : RM10.00 (Buffet dinner served at 8.15pm)

Toastmaster of the Evening : Lee Wei Seong, ACG

2 speakers for Advanced Manual Speeches

Special 101 Session - 20 minutes

"Lifestyle Aromatherapy- Essential Oils for Public Speaking"

Fragrances serve a special inspiration to our well-being. They evoke emotions, memories and visions. The right blend of fragrance can calm and enhance confidence. When we speak on stage, handle customer service, closing sales or walking into an interview, communication abilities can be heightened.Fragrances serve a special inspiration to our well-being. They evoke emotions, memories and visions. The right blend of fragrance can calm and enhance confidence. When we speak on stage, handle customer service, closing sales or walking into an interview, communication abilities can be heightened.

In this brief 20-minute talk, you will:

- Learn new knowledge about recommended essential oils for Public Speaking
- Pick up tips on how to effectively use essential oils
- Learn how to enhance your confidence using essential oils and positive affirmations
- Sample a personalized essential oil blend to enhance your confidence

Speaker : Susan Kwok

Susan holds a Degree in Business Management and a Masters Degree in IT Management. With her acute sense of management skills and teaching techniques, she has since trained and managed company’s business and human resources projects for more than 15 years. Due to her constant demand for work perfection and long hours of training, she experienced chronic fatigue and burn-out. With such distress, came the opportunity to explore the healing properties of essential oils. Here, she found her sanctuary and a passion she so remembers. It propelled her to use this practice for self-healing and to provide a platform for others to learn it too. Coupled with her management skills and research abilities, she has formulated an actionable and informative guide to apply Aromatherapy in our lives everyday. Hence, Lifestyle Aromatherapy, the opening chapter.

Susan is now a qualified Aromatherapist and Business Consultant with a Certificate in Touch for Health Synthesis. She also holds a Diploma in Holistic Aromatherapy.

To read Susan's work, please logon to http://www.fragrant-blessings.com/

See you!

Result of District Contests

Dear Fellow Toastmasters

The District Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contests were held today, Sunday 25 October 2009 at the 17th Semi-Annual Convention at Genting International Convention Centre, Genting Highlands.

We are pleased to announce the results.

HUMOROUS SPEECH CONTEST

Marianna Pascal - Champion
(Division A - Sacred Heart)
Speech Title : Local English or Standard English?

Ruby Ahmad - 1st runner up
(Division S - Langkap)
Speech Title : The Return of Holy Matrimony

Karina Razali - 2nd runner up
(Division E - Miri)
Speech Title : The Adventurer's Wife

EVALUATION SPEECH CONTEST

Asha Suresh Chand - Champion
(Division N - Oracle Advanced)

Rozana Yunos - 1st runner up
(Division K - Brunei Speakers)

Mary Barton - 2nd runner up
(Division W - WIM)

Congratulations and Well Done!!

Rosalind Chan, DTM
District Public Relations Officer 2009-2010

District 51 Theme: Toastmasters: Speaking Your Way to Magical Transformation

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Our Bom-tastic Meeting on 08.10.2009

Dear Members and Friends,

The meeting on the 08.10.2009 was a great meeting with members in attendance witnessing four speakers attempting 4 different Advanced Manuals. We are truly honour to have Helen Quat the Vice President of Education from Metro Toastmasters Club to grace our meeting.

The meeting started at 7.40pm, the President Foong Weng Tuck, ACB CL share with us about the story of Cinderella and the punctuality lesson based on the story. The Toastmasters of the Evening, Victor Ong ACB CL took over the lectern from the President. He had creatively presented the history of Toastmasters International using power point slides and he introduced the program of the night.

We had SK Khor as the Table Topics Master and 5 of us attempted 5 various topics, they were: Dr Arulnathan, Chan Siew Peng, Low Yat Seow, Subramanian and our Area Governor, Julian Gan.

We then break for dinner, everyone was enjoying the sumptous dinner inclusive the ASA, Bernard Louis. But he did not forget to call the meeting in order and it was on time. But there was a banana next to the timing device as he was also the timer besides the ASA. I think he must have done that intentionally just in case the yellow light fail.

The 4 speakers who were attempting 4 different advanced manuals were:

1. Ivan Ho, Technical Presentation Manual #4 - Presenting A Technical Paper
2. Chan Siew Peng, Speaking to Inform Manual #4 - A Fact Finding Report
3. Tham Chee Wah, The Professional Speaker Manual #3 - The Sales Training
4. Nancy Liew, Interpretive Reading Manual #3 - The Monodrama

The evaluation session was truly beneficial to the speakers and members in attendance. The session was led by Dr Arulnathan as the General Evaluator and panel of evaluators such as Lee Wei Seong, Low Yat Seow, Dennis Wee, Julian Gan and Yip Wah Pung. The members of audience have also contributed some ideas for speakers' future improvement. Thanks to all that have contributed. We look forward to see again in our next meeting.

Maria Yap has given us a report on the usage of English throughout the whole meeting and Dr Arulnathan has shared with us some pointers on how the club could have improved in future.

The meeting endede on time. We look forward to seeing all of you again in our next regular meeting on 12.11.2009 (Thusrday).

For all of us who will be attending the 17th Semi Annual Convention in Genting Highlands from 23rd - 25th October, SEE THOU THERE!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Our Bom-tastic Meeting on 08.10.09

Video recorded, edited and posted by Tham Chee Wah

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Speechcraft Program - A Proposal

SPEECHCRAFT PROGRAM

Introduction

Oral communication is part of daily life. You speak to someone. You greet people. You express opinions. You offer information. You ask questions. You may even try to persuade someone to accept your point of view or do something. How well you verbalize your thoughts and ideas determies the impression you make on people and, ultimately, how successful you are in life.

Yet speaking to more than one or two people may make you nervous and uncomfortable. You may be afraid you will say or do something foolish or that you will bore your audience. These are normal concerns and, with some effort, you can overcome. You can learn to organize and present your ideas logically and convincingly and in doing so, develop the self-confidence that will enable you to handle any speaking situation with ease.

Speechcraft is a program designed to help you develop those public speaki

ng skills.

How many participants for each program?

To provide enough time for participants to complete 3 speeches within 2 days. It will be effective when Speechcraft is conducted with a min 20 or max 25 participants only.

Where can it be held?

A conference room is preferred for a comfortable seating of 20-25 participants. During speech presentation (except Case Studies), the participants will form 2 groups. Each group consisting not more than 13 speakers. One group will remain in the conference room and the other group will move to another meeting room. So, we will need 2 rooms where one will be used when speech presentations commence.

How will it be conducted?

Each group to commence their speaking assignments with a few Toastmasters members to guide them. The Toastmasters will also give verbal evaluation right after the speeches. The participants will have hands-on material to record their progress as each participant will be evaluated individually by experienced Toastmasters. With this mentoring system, the participants will learn the communication skills efficiently and effectively.

What is the cost of the program?

All conference expenses will be borne by the corporation, ie conference room, meals, and all out-of-town expenses that may include accommodation and transport. Program materials such as Toastmasters International Speechcraft Program Manuals, Notes, Program Files will be prepared and are covered in the program fees. Our Exco member will liaise with you on the program fees when we meet to discuss further.

Person to contact : Vice President - Membership, Tham Chee Wah 012-3152811

(For a sample of the Speechcraft Program, please click on the image above to enlarge)