Toastmasters Club #620500, Beijing, China

Minutes to Nov12th Meeting - Economic Crisis

WRITTEN BY Liu Bing

Since September Economic Crisis was becoming a tightening rope on the necks of many countries, as a meeting theme, we were focused on the impact over China. Upon statistics of members and guests attending the meeting Nov.12, only two among 20 have the borne the impact of economic crisis, and all of them are directly from US. With that TM Liu Bing proposed an attitude toward the crisis: since it mainly comes from a psychological worry in China, we can treat it with ease, never let the worry to become panic.

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Minutes to Nov7th Meeting - Be Flexible

WRITTEN BY Liu Bing

With revealing the meaning of “Be FlexibleHong started the meeting, Life is full of unexpected things, even people in their 70 years old can not see through every thing in life, That’s why keeping an open mind and Being Flexible is essential to the happiness of our life.

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Minutes to Oct29th Meeting - Trust

WRITTEN BY: Liu Bing

The meeting on Oct.29 was around “TRUST”.

With the contribution from all participants, we concluded that Trust can help:

- building happy life

- setting up a healthy economy

- communicating easier

- building effective teams

Trust can be achieved through ways as:

- make ourselves to be trustworthy first

- give people more space to be trusted

ANNOUNCEMENT:

  • Any members who are interested in practicing Leadership manual, EF DongZhiMen Club, which was setup by our member Joe DeVeto, has two club-mentor roles, please inform me if you want to take it.

For more information about the meeting please read on.

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Minutes to Oct22nd Meeting - Financial IQ

WRITTEN BY: Liu Bing

We had a meeting around Financial IQ (Intellectual Quotient), Toastmaster Matt brought educational materials about what is Financial IQ, with the meeting moved on he shared three questions for members to think what a Financial IQ could be, and at the end of the meeting he revealed the answers to the questions

GE CK summoned his team just before the meeting.

WS Matt (yes, he was TM too) promoted a Word “Stingy” which was relevant to the theme, and he used Big letters to show the word and his explanation and example was shown very clearly.

Timer Jeff was a confident leader in his promotion and reports for most of the duty time.

Susan’s introduction of AC was very clear and her final report was also properly summarized.

In table topic session, Liu Bing brought topics about investments and expenditures, the speakers were encouraged to come to stage and urged to promote a way to spend the 200k RMB of audience in this economic crisis period…

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Minutes to Oct17th Meeting - Self Motivation

WRITTEN BY: Liu Bing

The TM Liu Bing was late and had to go through the theme “Self Motivation” very briefly.

CK led the Evaluation team to introduce the roles and gave reports by following the tips of the manual.

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Minutes to Sept 24th Meeting - Frustrated?

WRITTEN BY: Liu Bing

September 24 was a special meeting! Let’s see what special parts were.

- Toastmaster was special,

Our dedicated Toastmaster Peter brought a touching theme: “How to cope with frustration successfully”. Frustration is a thing every one of us had experienced many times, for some it may seems to be happened always. With thoughtful thinking Peter brought ideas to cope with it effectively, briefly speaking, there are four ways:

1. Take it easy and try to think it through in other ways

2. Summarize the lessons out of the failure and imagine how it was successfully avoided in the future

3. Take actions upon it and then diverse attention to other priorities

4. Believe in Time, as it will cure every wound

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Minutes to Sept17th Meeting - Be a Boss

WRITTEN BY: Liu Bing

The meeting theme was “Be A Boss”, which
was promoted by Liu Bing, In the long introduction, he explained the
origination of Boss and reinforced two characteristics of a boss: Accountability
and responsibility.

We had a devoted evaluation team lead by CK,
who gave thorough introduction at the beginning and detailed feedback at the
end of the meeting. According to him:

Peter as
Wordsmith brought relevant word of the day to the theme - “Authentic”,
there were totally four related words introduced, if they could be reduced to
one the audience would have more focus.

Becky as
Our Ah Counter did careful listening and reporting, and she gave several tips for audience
to reduce the Ah usage.

Justine
as Timer did a brave job, she help the meeting to move
on within time frame and following the meeting schedule strictly

CK
promoted the use of notes of Angela and Terra, they could basically
give feedback not binded to the notes, they only used it for several very short
moment, this increased their sincerity and credibility of their message.

He also hoped the use of blackboard could be improved
by advance preparation on it so to keep speakers’ front face toward audience.

We had two speakers spoke in the prepared session: Daisy and Allen.

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Minutes to Aug 27th Meeting - Competition

WRITTEN by: Liu Bing

Global Communicators had a special meeting on Aug.27, Table Topic session was a contest, totally 8 members joined the contest, which topped the history of our club.

The participants were: Terra, Tessa, Allen, Forrest, Liu Bing, Sissi, Mia, Jeff.

Matt and Monica were taking several roles together in the meeting, Matt was TM and Contest Master, Monica was Chief Judge, Contest SAA and Ballot counter.

All contest participants and judges were briefed on the rules 10 minutes before the meeting, when the meeting started, TM Matt introduced the meeting and started the contest on time.

The topic was “What was the best thing of the Beijing Olympics?”, and participants were brought in the room one by one according to the lotted sequence, as the procedures was strictly following the TM rules, the tension in the contest was properly generated, According to Jeff – the eighth contestant, “seeing people leaving me one by one to the room, the pressure was increased little by little, when entering the room, it was silent, no sound, no laugh, all these added up to the pressure.”, however, each contestant manage to overcome the difficulty and delivered successfully their messages.

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Minutes to May28th Meeting - Family

Last week we had a great FAMILY meeting, unfortunately I was a bad son and didn’t take down great notes, sorry sister Daisy.
The main roles, awards and attendance of the meeting are attached below.

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Club election will be moved until Wednesday June 11th.  If you want to run for a club officer role please let me know before hand.  If you want to nominate someone else, please talk to them before you nominate them to see if they are interested.  Be a leader and ask them before hand.

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Minutes to May21st Meeting - What Makes a Good Leader?

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

Last night we learned a little about what it means to be a leader and how to practice becoming a leader.

Our first speaker, Hong, gave an inspiring speech showing us how her and her husband are leading a cause to help the Orphans in the Quake zone. She is doing more. And she is asking you to give if you can to this worthwhile cause.

Hotline
Beijing 96156
Sichuan 8628-84423064/84423065
China Red Cross 8610-65139999

http://finance.sina.com.cn/blank/children512.shtml

CLUB ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • Club Elections will be held on June4 so if you are interested in being part of the leadership team for the next term, Jul1-Dec31 let me know.

If you want to read more of leadership discussion we had last night or if you wan to see the details of the meeting read on below.

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