How long you have been in Toastmasters? Do you still have alot of questions on how TM’s can help you in real life? How’s the TM’s leadership skills work in your workplace? Then Don’t miss our next meeting.
We have a special guest on this Wed Meeting. He is our experienced toastmaster, our International Director Keith Ostergard! He will going to share His TM’s story “A Toastmaster Transformation“. He is also the one you want to know why he did 23 times ice-breakers. He definitely able to answer your above questions! Read more »
Meeting Theme: Embracing our heritage Minutes Taker: Sebrina
Toastmaster: Rolf Chew Word of the day: origin(original originality)
Highlights: Do you know where you come from? Rolf said before embracing our heritage we really need to know who we are, who are parents are, who are parents parents are…. And what are our heritage. So for the whole meeting we spent a great time by embracing our heritage.
Table topic session hosted by Jason
Do you know how many festivals in our Calendar? Jason dig our incidents happened on traditional Chinese festivals.
Spring Festival: Porsher showed her Creativity on designing firework,she symbolized long life with a circle one,which meet people’s need for a new year , long life ,money and happy.
Laba Festival: Our “future grandma” Angela made delicious rice porridge for family on this day, Unfortunately her children were so busy. For building up a better relationship with them, grandma chose to show her love by sent food to them, that made audience feel sweet. Read more »
Coming meeting is hosted by our experience TM Rolf Chew and GE Tessa. It’s a great opportunity to have them with us again! Here are the message from Rolf:
After a rest for the Dragon Boat Festival, we will be resuming our regular meeting on the 23rd of June, 2010.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, it makes me think about why our history and culture defines us. So, I decided that the theme “Embracing our heritage” would be a very good theme to have for our incoming meeting.
Also, we will be having a guest speaker for this meeting. Ken from Rainbow Bridge. He will be doing his CC9 speech. This is a good opportunity to see how more advanced speech being done (which is not so often) and members from other clubs do their speech. Make sure you are going to be here.
Then See you on Wed!!
Meeting Theme: First impression Toastmaster: Cathy Yue Minutes taker: Terra Sun
Highlights from TM:
Cathy showed us a scene between how a young guy helped an old man pushing the cart. And raised up our curiosity how that left the impression of public.
TTM Libby brought us interesting questions relate to the first impression.
Sissi was asked to choose between handsome vs good personality: The boy who is handsome, humors etc attract her at first impression. However, she found that the boy is not responsible and gentle; therefore, she decides to give up. Read more »
No meeting Today!! Since this is a public holiday, we will taking a break from a regular meeting.
We have a social gathering dinner at our Charter President’s restaurant. Welcome to join us!
D&D Cafe
Chaowai SOHO
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Message from A Soon be Immediate Past President Monica:
I am so proud of you! And it’s my honor to be your club president for a year. I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all of you and especially my committee officers and assistants. Without their passion, patience and hard work, we might not be able to achieve so much. We like a family, overcoming challenges together and be there for each other no matter in difficulties or in happiness.
There are a lot of moments I would like to cherish with you together and I know there will be more in the future. You want to know about them? Let’s talk about them in my next speech!
Tonight, your passions gave us a wonderful evening. We see how much we bond together and definitely will be proud of being a GC member. And I know with the new committee will going to bring more in our TM’s journey. Let’s be with them and congratulations to them!!
President: Jason Jiao
VP Education: Lili Li
VP Membership: Issa Li
VP Public Relations: Lucy Liu
Treasurer: Liu Bing
Secretary: Young Yang
SAA: Sebrina
In addition, we have offered from Libby be our Treasurer assistant, Sissi be our VPPR assistant and Kyle and Simon be our VPM’s assistants. So thank you for their contribution and definitely we are looking forward your sharing with us. Don’t forget, our CK is our Audio Video Master all the way. Thank you you all.
BTW, welcome Terra, Tessa, Vivian back to our family!! And we have two new members (Steven and Nancy) joining us tonight. What a great meeting we have you with us!!
We will have a week off. So, Happy Dragon Boat Festival!
We will see each other again on 23rd Jun. And hopefully, we might able to share the moments with our immediate past president Angela which she will be relocated the end of the month.
If you are in Beijing during the holiday, please join our social day organised by Rolf. Keep updates!
Toastmasters of the meeting Cathy Yue:
In the coming meeting, I would like talk about “First Impression” with all of you. As you know first impression is so important to us and it is useful for us to build relationship with others. A good first impression is so helpful and important not only in our work but also in our personal life. But sometimes first impression is not so exactly correct. Why I say so? Do you want to know the reasons?
Come to the next meeting!
And also the coming meeting will be a special and exciting one.
Because we are having our half yearly officers election in the second half of our meeting.
All the nominees will come to the stage one by one and compete with each other. I am so curious and cannot wait for the coming committee team!
Looking forward your coming and join our exciting campaign!
Meeting Theme: Challenge Yourself Toastmaster: Simon Liu
Highlights:
Toastmaster Simon demonstrated a stronger leadership than he ever did, we could see that from the beginning: “If you cannot hear me clearly, please raise your hand” and he began the TT session with “Are you ready for table topic?, (‘yes’ from the audience), I can’t hear you? Are you ready? (‘Yeees’)”, such skills showed his increased confidence in leading the meeting forward and such opening prepared well for the next moments.
Simon brought meaningful messages in his promotion as well, the arithmetic metaphor of factors which helps embracing challenges was especially impressive, 3A are best helps challenge oneself, they are: Attitude, Action and Adhere. Among them Attitude is the most important one, if put “a” as integer number “1″ and “z” to be “26″, then Money is only 72, hardwork is merely 98, while only Attitude achieves 100!
TTM Sebrina challenged our impromptu thinking abilities from the speakers
1. ”Most important achievements in the school time” Young responded immediately by quoting his recent absents and returned due to he missed the stage and GC people which was fabulous, such genuine words echoed directly into the heart of every audience.
2. Porsher responded to a question “what you will do if elected the president of GC”, she quickly linked the message to her opinions on how to help members doing efficient speeches and how to learn better in GC Read more »
Toastmaster of the meeting – Simon
Do you once ask yourself why you would come to Toastmaster club?
Of course, You hope to be one better of you, and you want to get improved in English, communication , public speaking, leadership etc., which means that you should challenge yourself with great efforts.
Life is limited but potential is unlimited. At many situations, you should challenge yourself by overcoming your fears, your nervousness, your uncomfortable feelings. You will and you are the only that person to find your potential judged by yourself after your try, after your challenging yourself.
By the way, why I pick up this theme (“challenge yourself”), there are 2 reasons:
Firstly, I would like to make it coherent with last meeting theme, “jump outside your comfort zone”.
Secondly, it is to encourage our members to engage involved in the coming new term’s officers’ election.
So, why don’t you come and join us this Wed!
