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Newsletter of Qatar Toastmasters Club 2910TRANSCRIPT
QATAR TOASTMASTERS CLUB CLUB No. 2910 AREA 18 DIVISION Q DISTRICT 20
Vol 10 Issue 2 December 2014 www.qatartoastmasters.org
Qatar Open participants enthrall audience Page 14
Qatar Toastmasters Club Office Bearers 2014-2015
President TM Rukhsana Khan
VP Education TM Sarita Jacob
VP Membership TM Nevine Kamel
VP Public Relations TM Senthil Kumar
Secretary TM Azeez Mohammed
Treasurer TM Biju Mathew
Sergeant at Arms TM Cipriano Collado
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page 3 Editorial
Page 4 President's Message
Page 7 Do's and Don'ts in Evaluation Contest
Page 8 New members on board
Page 9 Area 18 confluence meeting
Page 11 My Journey towards DTM
Page 14 Cover Story- Qatar Open 2014
Page 16 A perfect TMOD role play
Page 17 Why so serious?
Page 18 Notable events
Page 19 Upcoming events
Dear Toastmasters, Greetings from “Chilly Delhi”! I am happy to report that I am writing my editorial from my home town amidst my family where we are braving an average temperature of 5-8 degrees Celsius. It is always my pleasure to be part this cov-eted newsletter called “Toasted Tidings”. In this edition you will find valuable knowledge shared by veteran toastmasters. This is the essence of being a toastmaster, we learn and we share. The cover story in this edition is the coverage of our beloved “Qatar Open” which we have been conducting for the past 17 years. We have been providing opportunities to the youth in Qatar to show-case their talent. Let this be a motivation for you to come forward and register with our VP Education for the upcoming club contests. I am sure you will enjoy reading this edition. Happy Holidays! Best Regards, Thomas Joseph Editor Toasted Tidings
Dear Toastmaster, ‘Tis the season…for toastmasters’ annual speech contests! Welcome to the second newsletter of Qatar Toastmasters Club for 2014-15. Contest season is right around the corner, and you may be wondering why should I compete? Let me share with you what competing has taught me: 1. Taking part in contests has taught me more about public speaking in less time than anything else. I have seen and heard what works and what doesn’t. I learn something new from every contest and every contestant. I like to compete not to win the first prize, but to bag the big prize, a fast track educational experience. 2. Competing reminds me (and others) how far I’ve grown as a speaker. This gives my fragile confidence a much needed boost, a bit like a seasonal flu shot. 3. To my surprise I’ve actually found it fun, motivating, and an unexpected way of spicing up the regular toastmasters routine. I enjoy cheering for others, making new friends outside the club and focusing less on winning, more on learning. So what about you? Are you still sitting on the fence? If you’ve never competed, you don’t know what you’re missing. Stepping out of your comfort zone into your learning zone can be challenging, tough, and at times painful. But it does make you stronger. As you compete in front of bigger and increasingly unfamiliar audiences your confidence grows by leaps and bounds. Preparing for a contest speech is also unlike any other preparation you’ve done before. You’re forced to go the extra mile, train harder and lift your performance to the next level. The feedback you get is priceless. You’ll be surprised at how far you’ve come and how much you can improve. As speakers we are just like diamonds in the rough. We need pressure and heat to
polish us until we shine. Competition is a precious, rare gem of an opportunity. The
pressure and heat feel scary at first, but the fear turns to joy when it’s over and you
come back for more. Contests are rewarding beyond trophies and titles. My advice to
you is the same as I tell our young Qatar Open contestants…GO FOR IT! Because
you never lose when you compete, you always win.
With Best Regards,
From the President’s Desk….
Rukhsana Khan CC, CL President, Qatar Toastmasters
EDUCATIONAL INFORMATIVE
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INFORMATIVE
TM SHYAM SUNDAR DIVISON Q GOVERNOR 2014-2015
Know your leaders @ Division
Know your leaders @ Club
TM Rukhsana Khan President
TM Senthil Kumar VP Public Relations
TM Sarita Jacob VP Education
TM Nevine Kamel VP Membership
TM Cipriano Collado Sgt. At.Arms
TM Biju Mathew Treasurer
TM Williams Antony Imm. Past President
TM Azeez Mohammed Secretary
Do’s and Don’ts in Evaluation Contest
EDUCATIONAL
“A toastmasters club without effective evaluations is like a school with no tests” says Sharon Hill, DTM, past District 37 Governor. Yes, she is right. Evaluations are the life blood of Toastmasters meetings. New speakers depend on evaluations for information, help and development. Long standing speakers need evaluations to prevent the onset of mental rust or complacency. Seasoned evaluators always keep in mind that their evaluations should motivate, inspire and enhance the self esteem of the speaker. Contest seasons are just around the corner. Based on my toastmasters learning and experience, let me put forth a few Do’s
and Don’ts in Evaluation contests.
Do’s in Evaluation
Be observant and a quick thinker.
Concentrate on the most pertinent details.
Find balance between positive and negative aspects.
Choose the right words to say those positive and negative aspects.
Structure your evaluation speech with opening, body and conclusion.
Craft an opening and conclusion that ties you and the audience to the speech.
Show your sincerity and concern about the person’s speech.
Respect the speaker and deliver praise with aplomb and constructive criticism with grace.
Understand the criteria in the judging sheet and deliver your evaluation that satisfies all 4 criteria – Analysis, Recommendation, Technique and Summation.
Be sure to wrap up the evaluation with something memorable.
DON’TS in Evaluation
Don’t get distracted
Don’t go with notes
Don’t limit stage usage
Don’t repeat the full speech
Don’t force the preplanned Evaluation
Don’t highlight improvement needs without constructive recommendations.
Don’t hurt the self esteem of the speaker
Don’t guess the project objectives and keep on dwelling on that
Don’t eat up the time with only analysis
Don’t have abrupt closing
Don’t forget to mention if you were inspired or motivated.
Don’t use ambiguous words that some judges may not understand.
Don’t speak for the audience.
Don’t upstage the speaker.
Don’t write notes illegibly. If you want to make an impact as a contestant in an evaluation contest keep the following also in mind: Create a memorable punch line that will get the judges to remember your performance! Stand out by differentiating yourself – in the minds of the judges – from the other competitors.
Wish you all the best for the contest! Thayalan K 4 7
NEWS
Sivathanu Murugan works as a sales manager at Nice Rent a
Car since 2010. He is been working in the Middle East (Oman, Bah-
rain and Qatar) for more than 20 years. He loves to play cricket and
listening to music.
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Margarita Zuniga (aka Margie the Fund Ryder) (Qatari) is the Assistant to the Dean of Research and Development at VCUQatar and Alliance Leader for
Qatar Professional Women's Network and member of the National Cancer Strat-egy Communications Working Group representing the Ladies of Harley Qatar
Chapter. She is also a proactive mother of four living in the Middle East for over 20 years. Margarita is passionate in helping people find their strengths to be-
come better individuals and is involved in behavior change awareness outreach community projects. She promotes education, training and professional develop-
ment for women and positive youth development.
Her mission in life is to create love, seek truth and knowledge, help save lives and make a difference each day in someone's life.
She was recently awarded the Humanitarian Award in Qatar and Most
Influential Cancer Campaigner in Qatar.
New members in Qatar Toastmasters New members in Qatar Toastmasters
Mohammed Farook Mohammed Rislan is the Head of Marketing and Business Development at Arab Center For
Engineering Studies one of the leading third party independent laboratories in Qatar. Mohammed Rislan also member of several
social clubs and societies in Qatar.
Mamtha Rao is an enthusiastic HR professional who believes in learning new things and exploring the world with a twist of fun. She aims to reach out to people’s hearts by enhancing her communication skills. She is jubilant to join Toastmasters Club by being the better half of the Galfar Toastmasters President TM Rajeshwar Rao. She is blessed with the blooming buds Sharasmi 6 years old daughter and 3 years old son Divij. She wants to take advantage of every opportunity to practice her communication skills so that when important occasions arise, she will have the skills to affect other people in a positive way.
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By TM Rukhsana Khan Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success (Henry Ford). Area 18 Governor and QTM member TM Shajil Kader opened meeting no. 385 of Qatar Toastmasters with this quote, words which were congruous with the purpose of the confluence meeting held with the three other clubs from Area 18. The hall was packed with 75 toastmasters and guests. The energy and enthusiasm were palpable. TMOE TM Nevine smoothly steered the ship, and along the way we were treated to strong speeches from our members TM Williams and TM Jais Thomas, plus TM Ravi Shankar of Indian Club Toastmasters, and a mesmerizing speech in Ar-abic from TM Ahmed Abdel Salam from Tamim Toastmasters. All the role players and evaluators did a superb job, including TM Saad Ghosn who evaluated in Arabic. Every role play-er from QTM kept the QTM flag flying high (amid the sea of Qatar flags). It was also a treat for us to have seasoned toastmasters from other clubs as role players, including TM Raghavendra (evaluator), TM Anita Samanta (General Evaluator) and DTM Dr. Sampath Sowrirajan (Table Topics Master). Our own PID DTM George Thomas gave us his feedback too. After the National Day cake cutting by the Club Presidents (or designates) we had a change of TMOE. TM Shajil stepped in for TM Nevine who was taken unwell. The highlight of the business session was the release of the QTM newsletter, along with Indian Club TM's newsletter release. Words cannot cature the feeling of camaraderie in the room. Friends old and new met, mingled and shared the true toast-masters meeting experience, the ultimate goal of the confluence meeting. Ideas continued to flow after the meeting and it was clear that the host club QTM left a lasting impression. Thank you to all the members who came along to support us, in particular TM Shajil for guiding the clubs towards a successful meeting that will live long in the memory of all those who were there.
Stars Align at Area 18 Confluence Meeting
Stars Align at Area 18 Confluence Meeting
NEWS
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“Destination determines the direction”: Dr. Ralph Smedley-Founder of Toastmasters International
The game of cricket is so popular in India that many people consider it as their religion. As in a cricket match, my life in Toastmasters also consisted of two innings. An interesting fact is that I scored a “golden duck” (getting out in the first ball without scoring any runs) in my first innings. When I was in Bahrain in 2005, one of my friends invited me to a Toastmasters Club meeting at the BKS Toastmasters. Though a little reluctant, I attended that meeting. But that meeting turned out to be my last Toast-masters meeting. I never imagined even in the wildest of my dreams that I will have to speak in my very first meet-ing. When my name was called out to speak as a Table topic speaker, I got frightened. Though I went up to the stage, I couldn’t speak a single word; I felt really embar-rassed in front of my friends. I decided that I will never attend any more Toastmasters meetings. Thus the start and end of my first innings happened on the same day, without any success; that’s why I said: I scored a “golden duck” in my first innings. In 2007, I got relocated to Qatar. For some unknown reasons, I had made up my mind that I must improve my public speaking skills by joining Toastmasters in Qatar. I knew that Toastmasters training would help me in improv-ing my presentation skills that is very essential for my offi-cial work. The local daily “Gulf Times” of October 27th had an advertisement that read: “Do you want to learn Pub-lic Speaking? Join the Speechcraft program conducted by Qatar Toastmasters”. I joined that program without think-ing twice. It started on November 02, 2007. I met many new friends and enjoyed those 8 sessions of the Speechcraft program. I was really impressed with the dedi-cation and commitment of the Coordinator TM Lewis Jesudasan and the Asst. Coordinator TM Thayalan. I could complete my first two projects during the Speechcraft ses-sions. The education modules by senior Toastmasters were very interesting and informative. After the Speechcraft program, I joined Qatar Toastmasters Club on February 01, 2008. Soon, I was convinced that joining Toastmasters was one of the best decisions I have taken in my life. My next 5 years were really the best years in my life. I met many new people and learnt a lot. During my first year in Qatar Toastmasters, everything was new to me. It took about 6 months for me to under-stand the procedures and customs practiced in Toastmas-ters. Qatar Toastmasters being a Club that practices the parliamentary procedures in letter and spirit, many a times I used to feel it extremely strict and formal in nature. I fo-
MY JOURNEY TOWARDS DTM
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cused in giving my project speeches and took up various meeting roles. Still I was not clear about my path in Toast-masters. Questions that bothered me were: What is my route in Toastmasters? How will I know whether I have learnt everything? My questions were answered when I attended a “New Members orientation program” by DTM Shoaib Kasem who explained the two tracks: the Educa-tion Track and Leadership Track and how a new member progresses to become a DTM by travelling in two parallel tracks and by giving 40 project speeches and 3 presenta-tions and other leadership roles. That day I decided that my destination is the PhD in Toastmasters: the DTM. As our Founder, Dr.Ralph Smedley said: “The destination deter-mines the direction”. I said to myself: “Now I know my destination and now I have the direction, as well”. My next 4 years were meticulously planned and with a sense of purpose and direction. I decided to complete one certification in the Education as well as the Leadership tracks, every year. Along with that I took up various Club Excom roles as well. In 2008, my first year as a Toastmas-ter, I took up the role of the Club Secretary. Frankly speaking, it was not very exciting to me, probably because I was not very sure about what else I could do as a Secre-tary. I limited myself to my role. Also our Club was going through a turbulent phase during that time; members’ in-terest and participation were at a low. But I continued with my project speeches. Whenever an assigned speaker dropped out, I got a chance to speak. Thus I completed by Competent Communicator within one year and three months. Same year, I also completed by Competent Lead-er award. In 2009, I was elected as the Vice President-Education of Qatar Toastmasters Club. When I took up the role, my dream was to make Qatar Toastmasters the best Club in Qatar. I made a plan for that. The main challenge being membership, Excom decided to work on that issue and to improve the membership strength. We conducted a Speechcraft program and various Membership campaigns. During the QTAC-2009, I happened to meet the World Champion of Public Champion 2005 DTM Lance Miller and during my conversation with him, I discussed the problems that our Club was going through. He immediate-ly suggested me to watch a CD that contained a television interview of his wherein he had explained about how he rebuilt his Club in the USA from shambles. I bought that CD and listened to his interview many times. The key points I picked up from that interview were on improving the Quality of the Club meetings to attract and retain mem-bers. They were: (1)The first and foremost quality parame-ter for a meeting is to start and end on time. (2) Make the
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meetings fun and not funny. Here I remember the golden words of our Founder Dr. Ralph Smedley who said: “We learn best in the moments of enjoyment”. (3) Make the meeting moments memorable for members. From that day onwards, these 3 key points became my magic mantras. I convinced my Excom of my dream and the action points to make Qatar Toastmasters the Best Club by improving the quality of the Club meetings with these three magic mantras. My Excom shared my dream. Our meetings came to be known as the only Club meetings that start and end on time. I remember during one of the meet-ing the Toastmaster of the day called me up to inform that he would be late by 30 minutes. We did not wait for him; our senior member DTM George Thomas volunteered to take up the Toastmaster of the day’s role without any hesi-tation. Members were motivated to give project speeches. We celebrated the birthdays of members by cutting birth-day cakes during the break. We had theme meetings. Members started to enjoy the meetings. Naturally, the membership started to grow. Within 12 months member-ship grew from 23 to 76. That year we brought out our newsletter: “Toasted Tidings” which was in hibernation for 4 years. We revamped our website. By the end of the year, it was a rejuvenated Qatar Toastmasters Club. When the Falcon Awards were announced during the Qatar Toast-masters Annual Conference (QTAC) -2009, Qatar Toast-masters won awards in categories it participated: the Best Club, the Best Newsletter (Editor: TM Raghavan NV), the Best Website (Webmaster: TM Rajesh Nair) and the Best Toastmaster (TM Raghavan NV). That was a dream come true for our Excom in general and for me in particular. The year 2010, my third year in Toastmasters was even more spectacular. I was tipped to be the President of Qatar Toastmasters Club. But then came an opportunity to be-come the Area 18 Governor. As I have learnt from Toast-masters, never let an opportunity go by as it may never come back. I grabbed the opportunity with both hands. As I stepped out of my Club Excom, I got the opportunity to work with another 4 beautiful clubs. I enjoyed visiting the other 4 clubs and attending their meetings. I exchanged my ideas and winning formula with the Excoms of other clubs. We started a new Club: KEF Toastmasters in that year. I took up the additional responsibility of the Founder Presi-dent of KEF Toastmasters Club. Now I had to fulfill the dreams of the Area as well as that of the new Club. As the Area 18 Governor as well as the Founder President of KEF Toastmasters, I had a dream…to make them the best. I formed a team at the Area and Club levels who believed in my dream. We worked together as a team to make our dream come true. During the Toastmasters Annual Confer-
ence Qatar (TAC-Q) 2011, when the Falcon Awards were announced, I was a happy man. My dream had come true. Area 18 became the Best Area, and KEF Toastmasters the Best New Club. In addition to this, KEF Toastmasters won many more awards: the Best Website (Web Master: Titus Kannan), the Best Newsletter (Editor: NV Raghavan) and the Best Club President ( NV Raghavan). As we say it was truly a TEAM work: Together Everyone Achieved More. Even while taking up these leadership roles, I never kept my education track on the back burner, I continued with it. I completed my ALB as well as ACB in 2010-11. In 2011-12, I concentrated on the club level. We started another new club: EF Toastmasters and was associated with one more new Club: Smedley Toastmasters. I’m the Mentor of EF Toastmasters and I enjoyed building that Club. What I like about this club is the enthusiasm and teamwork of its members. That year KEF Toastmasters and Qatar Toastmasters won the Falcon Awards for the Best Club in Qatar and EF Toastmasters Club won for the Best New Club in Qatar. Qatar Toastmasters and KEF Toastmasters also won the Falcon Awards for the Best Newsletter and Best Website. I completed my HPL manual and ALS in 2011-12. My project title for HPL project was “the Best Club” wherein I presented the steps I took up in making Qatar Toastmasters, the Best Club in Qatar and thereby converting my dream into reality. 2012-13 is the year I got into the top gear. Here I had to complete the last step, the Advance Communicator Gold (ACG). This year I had taken up the responsibility of As-sistant Division E Governor-Marketing. Hence I had to spend my time for the marketing activities of the Division as well as concentrate on my final step towards my DTM. I made a plan; I paced my project speeches in such a way that it did not affect my division duties. I’m proud to say that I successfully completed my 10 project speeches in a span of nine months. I’m also very proud that I gave my last speech in my KEF Toastmasters Club on March 25, 2012. Thus my DTM journey that started 5 years ago on February 01,2008 at Qatar Toastmasters has come to a suc-cessful end in my own baby club, KEF Toastmasters in about 5 years’ time. At this juncture I wish to thank a few leaders who have
helped me to reach where I’m today. Speechcraft Coordi-
nators TM Lewis Jesudasan and TM K Thayalan who in-
troduced me to Toastmasters, my mentors TM Subha
Anupindi, DTM Mohan Varghese and TM Ooman John
who held my hands and corrected me whenever I went
wrong , DTM George Thomas, a great leader from Qatar
MY JOURNEY TOWARDS DTM…..(CONT.)
TM Raghavan Menon is a veteran toastmaster who has been instrumental in Qatar Toastmasters growth and con-tinue to selflessly support the club. He works as the Oper-ations Manager at Intercol Communication and IT. He is
the current Division Gavel Coordinator.
Toastmasters and a Past International Director who has
always been an inspiration and all members of Qatar
Toastmasters, KEF Toastmasters, EF Toastmasters and
Smedley Toastmasters and all other Toastmasters of Divi-
sion E and Q Clubs who have helped me by giving a di-
rection and offered their helping hands whenever I need-
ed. Finally and more importantly, I wish to thank our
founder Dr. Ralph Smedley, without whose vision of this
great organization of Toastmasters, it would not have been
possible for me to meet so many wonderful men and wom-
en and to become a DTM. Thank you all. Finally, my
dream has come true…I’m a Distinguished Toastmaster.
But, I know that this is only one of the milestones in my
journey and I have a long way to go. As the famous Amer-
ican poet Robert Frost said: “….. I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep…”.
MY JOURNEY TOWARDS DTM…..(CONT)
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The 17th Qatar Open Youth Public Speaking Champion-ship was concluded recently at Qatar Red Crescent Socie-ty. Organized by Qatar Toastmasters Club, Qatar Open is a nationwide public speaking contest which is open to all high school students aged between 13 and 18 years who are resident in Qatar. Around 100 students from 15 nationalities entered the contest representing 14 schools. Young orators from all over Qatar show-cased their exceptional public speaking skills before a packed auditorium of over 125 guests. Qatar Toastmasters Club Presi-dent TM Rukhsana Khan officially opened the event and welcomed the audience which included Chief Guest Mohammed Al-Hayder, founder of Takallam for Train-ing and Development, and Guest of Hon-our, Past International Director of Toast-masters International, George Thomas, DTM who started the Qatar Open back in 1997 under the name Inter School Speech Contest. The Contest Chair and Chief Co-ordinator of Qatar Open 2014 Vi-rendranath, DTM explained the rules of the contest, a unique community initiative aimed at support-ing the pillars of human development and social develop-ment under Qatar National Vision 2030. The enthralled audience watched the ten finalists battle for the title “Qatar Open Youth Public Speaking Champion 2014”. The talented group comprised Aashiya Anitha, Ai-sha Khan, Akaash Nidhiss, Andrea Nicoles, Kevin Rich-ardt, Rohit Chari, Shwetha Grace Eapen, Sparsh Garg, Sneha Karthik and Tarab Iqbal. Each had succeeded against tough competition in the preliminary round and semi-finals held at Birla Public School during October. Dignitaries present also included Division Q Governor TM Shyam Sunder, Division E Governor TM Na-simudheen and Area 18 Governor TM Shajil Kader. Chief Guest Al-Hayder, delivered a motivating address to the budding speakers on the importance of adding value when speaking and how true victory is about winning hearts. The panel of judges comprised seasoned toastmasters from various clubs across Qatar. Judging was based on content, delivery and language. All ten finalists delivered exceptional speeches. The
reigning champion Aditya Karkera announced this year’s winner Shwetha Grace Eapen, whose winning speech “The Little Extra” was also the audience’s top pick. On being declared the Qatar Open Champion Shwetha said
“It’s a dream come true. I stand at the top of the hill and the view is certainly the best. I am reminded of Napoleon Hill who once said "A quitter never wins and a win-ner never quits”. I now look for my next summit.” Shweta is a student at Birla Pub-lic School. She received the Champion’s trophy, QR 5000 first place cash prize and a winner’s certificate. The second place winner Kevin Richardt, a student of Philippine School Doha, re-ceived the second place winner’s trophy, QR 3000 cash prize and a winner’s certifi-cate. The third place winner Aashiya Anitha, a student of Birla Public School, received the third place winner’s trophy, QR1000 cash prize and a winner’s certificate. Each of the remaining 7 finalists received a QR500 cash prize and participation certifi-
cate. The organizers presented mementos to the Bronze Spon-sors Intertec Group, Castle Group, Mannai Corporation and Applus+ Velosi, and the Support Sponsors Qatar Kentz, Tanween, Qatar-UAE Exchange, Oryx Energy Projects and
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Qatar Open participants enthrall audience
Services, Jumbo Electronics, Almuftah Trading and Con-tracting and Teyseer Group. The Qatar Open Chairperson for 2015 TM Nevine Kamel
revealed that the 2015 edition will begin around April
2015. In closing, the Club President Rukhsana Khan
promised the attendees an even more exciting Qatar Open
next year.
You have taken up the challenge to drive the next meeting and now is the day to perform the role of TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY. Audience is looking forward to a great time. How can you help them? Here are a few tips to enchant them.
1. TIME MANAGEMENT: Help Begin, Carry and Close the meeting on Time.
2. MEET AND GREET : and Shake hands with members and Guests. Connect to make them comfortable and confident.
3. GUEST INTRODUCTION: If the guests are not recognized by the presiding officer, take it upon yourself to recognize the guests and give them a brief on what is expected from the meeting. At the end of the meeting ask them for their FEEDBACK.
4. TMOD: The best TMOD is the one you don’t remember. He invests energy in making participants look great and feel appreciat-ed.
5. THEME: Give a theme to your meeting and be consistent with it from the beginning till the end.
6. APPLAUSE: Lead the applause when a speaker comes or leaves the podium.
7. LEAD: Lead the charge to making the meeting exciting. Get everyone pumped up and keep them up during the meeting. While the speakers are the stars of the show, you are the lead cheerleader.
8. STAY IN TOUCH: Get in touch with every role player and brief him what is expected and find out if the role player needs any help or special considerations.
9. BACKUP PLAN: Avoid delay in meeting because a role player has not turned up on Time. If a member with a role is late – even if you’re still expecting them – get a backup for the role in case they don’t make it.
10. CONTENT: Find interesting facts, quotes, trivia related to the meeting theme to interject throughout the meeting.
11. ME ME and ME: Avoid loads of personal anecdotes.
12. STARS: Your speakers, evaluators and Table Topics participants are the stars to make the meeting memorable. Your job is to make sure they feel comfortable, confident and connected when they come to the podium.
13. INTRODUCTION: There are three things you must include in the introduction: Presenter name and TM title, Project manual and name, Title of the speech.
14. OBSERVE: Finally strictly observe members and guests before and during the meeting. Identify one good thing or initiative taken up by a new member or guest and recognize him during the meeting. For example if a new member extends a helping hand in setting up the room or a guest helps distribute the agenda.
15. FEEDBACK: Finally request written feedback from your audience on your role play. reward every feedback with a small token of appreciation. ( It could be any stationery items such as a pen, stick on or others)
Good Luck for your next TMOD role play.
A Perfect TMOD Role Play
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Vinod Kumar Mehra is a passionate publisher of this article. He has over two decades of serious high value sales experience in information technology industry. His pas-sion includes teaching blue collar workers to speak with confidence and earn more.
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NEWS
NOTABLE EVENTS
QATAR GAVEL CLUB AT DIVISION E AND Q DEBATE CONTEST 2014
TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL 90TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AT QATAR TOASTMASTERS CLUB
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NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS
DIVISION Q JUDGING WORKSHOP ON 9th JANUARY 2015
QATAR OPEN 2015 Registrations Open!
Qatar Open Youth Public Speaking Championship is a
social responsibility initiative by Qatar Toastmasters
since 1997. With its humble beginnings 17 years ago to-
day this championship is well known among the youth
of Qatar and has grown by leaps and bounds. Last year
we saw an unprecedented attendance of 150
participants.
Get involved in the best youth public speaking contest
in Qatar!
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