Dear All,
Sorry for absent for a long time because of some reasons and didn’t do my role seriously, here I came back and try to make it better, and, meeting minutes came back with me, I got an offer from an US education company and to be HRM from this year in charge of 20 new cities recruiting and may travel sometimes, I try to do my work and hope everyone can benefit from the notes.
The new years first contest was hold in a nice night, everyone are nervous and looking forward to see how it will be, our President Ms. Angela and Toastermaster Mr. Jeff came to the meeting room very early and prepare for the contest, our contest member are also in tension to prepare for the exacting minutes. More old members came and looking forward the New Year’s first contest.
Feb 25, 2009
Our president Ms. Angela gave us a wonderful opening and chose a joyful topic that is our SPECH CONTEST, She brought an nice and worm welcome to our old members and new guest. After some days absent I can feel that our club has a new style and our new committee members are trying to find new way to make our club better and show their professionalism.
Our new Guest:
-Ms. Cathy Qin She is from Tianjin Toastmasters
-Ms. Shuchen Chang张淑贞 She is from Taiwan
-David He comes to our TM for 3 times and will join our club soon
-Mandy She used to be our member long time ago and to be marketing manager in an lighting company now.
Toastermaster Mr. Jeff Wang showed us his professionalism, this is the first speech contest and some of our members don’t know how it will be and don’t know the process of speech contest, Jeff explained it in detail:
Club contest——Area Contest—–Division Contest——District Contest——International Contest
That is our contest process, if you got first and second place in our club contest you have right to stand for our club to participant Area contest, we can know our destination.
GE Terra led her team and showed us the difference in this special contest meeting, we don’t have word smith and Ah counter, we only have two timers, Ms. Cathy Yue and Mr. Will both will be our most powerful person in this meeting, they will help us to control our time and help to evaluate the speech’s quality:
-Timer Cathy Yue & Will Cathy told us that she will show us three cards in our speech, when green card been showed, that means that you have maximum time in your speech, yellow cards means that you still have some time in your speech, the red card means that you should sum up, in the table topic section, the speaker have 2 minutes for your speech and when she rise up green card means that still have 1 minute left, when yellow card been showed that means that you have 30 second left, when red card been showed you should end up your speech; In contest speech, each speaker have 7 minutes to delivery the speech, when she showed green card, that means that speaker have 2 minutes left, when yellow card been showed that means that speaker have 1 minute left, when red card been showed speaker should end up the speech, when red card been showed he still have 30 second, if the speech over the time or less than 6 minutes the speech will be recognized as disqualified speech and lost the chance to lose in the contest, she will not make any noise or signals as usual. After the speech Mr. Will will gave us report.
In Table topics section
Table Topics Master Kelvin chose interesting topic and lead a humor topic, his way is quite cractive, he helped speakers choose topic and let us look back, what we used to be and what good things or bad things we experienced, the year from 1968-2009, let’s review the years together, that is meaningful and we can think what happened in the past, very interesting topic in a humor way.
Angela-2008 unhappy things-She looked back and talked some happy things including visited 11 places in China and also Olympic Games, later she talked about the bad thing in 2008, she used to compete for the role in her work but failed, that is really bad thing in her mind.
-That always bad in our life, but no pain no gain, I think she can be better next time or can find another platform, Angela always outstanding.
Cherry-2002 happy things-In the year of 2000 she entry university in Inner Mongolia, for the first year in university she lost her self and didn’t join any social activity and work hard, one year later she got high mark because of her hard work and in the year of 2002 she got confidence, she became take part in some activities and joined Student Union, that is good thing for her, she got confidence and be proved that she is outstanding.
-Life is long, we all may met this kind of experience, after some effort on some project we won in the end, that is quite happy. I also have the same experience and I don’t fear any difficulties right now and try to find some way to solve the problem. No pain no gain. Trust that we are the best and we can do it.
Lydia Jin-2009 happy things-Lydia feel happy because her company got some changes and became better, the company’s success can inference everyone and she is quite happy to be marketing manager and proud to be one part of Benze.
-We grow with our company and also can feel happy if the company’s business became better, we are the part of company and put more effort in our work and we are proud to be the part of our company.
Mandy-1999-happy things-Mandy brought us to the new century Eve, she got promotion, and she worked in marketing department in an US chemical company, that year she got promotion.
David-2000 happy things-
He used to be software engineer and always travel to different cities, he was work for Bank in Guangdong Dongguan, the clients are quite rich and he tested many delicious foods, which are good memory.
Shuchen Chang (Guest)-1997 unhappy things
She used humor way and count down the years at the very beginning then she got answer and found that there was no unhappy things because she got married at that year, however, she also remember that she planed to study in abroad but her BF didn’t agree, that make she feel unhappy.
Table Topics Evaluator Cathy Jia gave detail evaluation for 6 table topics speakers, shining points and weak points
In Speech Contest, three experienced speaker gave us impressive speeches:
Liu Bing Stretch for better
Impressive drawing and explain TM different stages which have different direction
-CL/CC-AL
-CL/CC-AC
That is two sides of TM and focus on different direction, however we should step by step, give yourself some stretching goals can help you achieve your goal, he used an example that Rolf told him that what he did in the past years he start from reduce”Ah” and gave himself more pressure, he has some purpose each time once he came to TM, and try to make progress everyday. Set stretching goals can make us better.
Jason Jiao Hermit crab
Jason Jiao explained how hermit crab’s behave, it takes others shell and have their language, it change their shell once they found a suitable shell, it eat a lot and their body became bigger, the old shell is not suitable for it at all, it need a bigger one, this way can related with our life, the job hunting just like change shell as hermit crab. He used an example, a big factory produce soap, the manufacture line put the soap in the bottle, the success rate is quite low, some rich factory bought robot to help them improve the success rate, however, the poor factory don’t have so much money, but the manager let the engineer to improve it within 5,000 RMB, how to do that, if the engineer quit or find another way to solve the problem?! Finally, the engineer let one people looking at the bottles and pull down the empty bottles, the problem has been solved, stay or find a solution, that is the way of hermit crab.
Tessa A cell phone, a stranger and me
Tessa gave us a vivid story and showed us how far from each other, she used an question and want to borrow our TM members’ cell phone, she got a quick response that is no problem, she explained that because she we know each other and trust others, however, she used to face a problem that her cell phone had run out and she was in a strange place very late, she want to borrow a cell phone, however, she asked two people and they all don’t trust her and find some reasons to reject, she want to try last time, one guy helped her finally, she was moved and start to think about it. If we can be kind to others and others can copy your behave. Show your nice face and pass it to others, the world can be better.
Porsher Oh…Oh…
“Oh” can express ourselves in different way, she used to work in Japanese company and found that the people have different understanding of “Oh”, she write something on the name card which Japanese gave to her, the Japanese “Oh”(means surprise and can’t understand), Porsher said “Oh”(means that she realized that she made something wrong) they used the same word”Oh”but it have many meanings. She also used another example, a guy complained his wife, say some bad things towards his wife, Porsher said”Oh”, it means that how this guy complain his wife, she also think that this guy is not very good, otherwise he will not complain his wife.
She encourages “Oh” frequently.
Matt Is your phone powered on?
Matt used to ask his student that how to speak Chinese, he can’t control his tongs, Sb told him that “That is simple, just speak quickly and forget tong”, he practice”Wo Xiang Qu Wangfu Jing”(Very fast) the driver don’t understand, he tried for several times and finally he speak slowly with body language, then the driver understand, it showed that speak fast can’t help. What you want and you should put more effort and start from easy things and practice, Da Shan spent 6 month learn songs, that is a good start for language, why you buy a phone, you must have purpose to buy a phone, that is you should set a specific goal and you also need power to use, learn language is your goal and you should practice that can help you achieve your goal.
The awards were:
First Place: Tessa
Second Place: Matt
Third Place: Liu Bing
Best table topic speaker: Cherry
Members presented were: Angela, Liu Bing, CK, Cathy Yue, Cathy Jia, Daisy, Justine, Kelvin, Bruce, Porsher, Lydia Jin, Tessa, Jeff, Terra, Sue Jiang, Rolf, Cherry, Will, and Jason Jiao.
Guests were: Cathy Qin, Shuchen Chang, David and Mandy
For the first Toastermasters Speech Contest meeting, it is a good start for the new year and we can see that our meeting quality became better, let’s put more effort on it and make progress everyday.
Daisy
Club Secretary
For President Angela: she did an excellent job to give a comprehensive speech which brought lots of useful information to the audience.