Meeting No - 220 Minutes

Joint Meeting between CSF and CCC

MEETING ATTENDEES:

TM Selvan	TM Vijayaraghavan
TM Pravin Mani	TM Vivek Anand
TM Bharathi	TM Supraja
TM Sriram	TM Karthikeyan
TM Siddarth	TM Shiva
TM Srikar	Guest
TM Saravana Kumar	TM Helen
DTM Saro Velrajan	TM Anuj
TM Rajan Menon	TM Dharan
TM Ravi Kumar	Guest Muthuraman
Guest Srinithi Rao	Guest Naresh

  

MEETING  ADORNMENT

MEETING ENGAGEMENT REPORT

10:00 A.M - SAA CALLS FOR MEETING

SAA, TM Faisal, opened the meeting, explained the mission and vision of Toastmasters. TM Faisal then handed over the control to the Presiding officers TM Vijayaraghavan and TM Shiva

10:05A.M - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Presiding officers, TM Vijayaraghavan and TM Shiva shared with us an interesting message about dependence, independence and interdependence. In toastmasters, for CC we depend on mentors, after few years we became independent and we became interdependent by co-operating with other clubs, with this message they started the meeting #220

10:15 A.M - PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD

Presiding officers, TM Vijayaraghavan and TM Shiva introduced the TMOD’S, TM Helen and TM Selvan. They shared their personal experiences of friendship.They introduced the theme 'A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies’ and the word of the day 'Congeniality’. Further, they explained the various segments in a toastmasters meeting.

Word of the day : 'Congeniality’ Meaning: Compatibility between persons; suitable to your needs. Theme of the day : 'A friend is a single soul dwelling in two bodies’ 10:20 A.M - GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION

The TMOD, TM Helen and TM Selvan then handed over the control to the General Evaluator, TM Ganesh. He told that this meeting with him as general evaluator will have constructive criticism which will make us a better speaker. He then requested the TAG team, to brief the objectives of their roles.

Timer–TM Prakash Ah Counter- TM Supraja Grammarian- TM Bharathi 10:30 A.M - PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

Prepared Speech	Project	Speaker	Speech Title	Evaluator
1	CC# 2	TM Preetha	Is your cup full?	TM Umashanker

TM Preetha started his speech by asking the audience whether your cup is full. Few years back, she bought a scooty and met with a major accident and injured her right hand. Years passed, life became hectic and she had no time to read newspaper and even listening to music. She had a feeling that she knows everything .In May 2016, during the Tamil Nadu election time, she had one party in mind to vote. Her brother came home after voting and informed her about the symbols of various parties. But she failed to listen because of her overconfidence. She went to the voting booth, got confused of the symbol and she casted her vote for the wrong person by mistake. She realized that all this happened because of her ego. She concluded by saying that “ Be formless shapeless like water”

Prepared Speech	Project	Speaker	Speech Title	Evaluator
2	ACS#1	TM Vivekanand	The most intelligent ladies	TM Devanand

TM Vivekanand started his speech by saying that she makes humans to think creatively, get loads and loads of applause, earns millions of dollars , near and dear to us. She is none other than Anaphylaxis mosquitoes. The bitter fact is that, it causes malaria, dengue and the list is endless which eventually increases the death rate. Mosquitoes normally live in plant, bushes and not in our homes. It sucks blood from cat, dog and rat. Mosquitoes are good source of food for many birds, snakes, lizards etc. He concluded his speech by saying that in real life, we need to apologize for destroying the environment and we have no license to kill living beings in Earth.

11:00 A.M –EDUCATION SESSION:

DTM Saro started by saying that if we cannot measure it, we can’t improve. He enlightened the audience about 3 types of evaluation.

• Good  evaluation-  Giving tonic to the speaker
• Bad evaluation- Soda’s give instant relief which is not good for the speaker
• Ugly evaluation- Poison to the speaker which makes the speaker dead.

He also discussed about the 5p’s in Evaluation.

1.      Positive feedback

2.      Purposeful

3.      Predominance

4.      Personalization

5.      Pointed

He also recommended the evaluators to use acronyms and themes during evaluation.

11:00 A.M –TABLE TOPIC SESSION

An interesting Table Topic session was conducted by TM Sriram. She had a variety of topics which were enjoyed by the audience. The speakers were as follows:

• TM Sriram - If you judge people you don’t have time to love them.
• TM Dharan - He who is not courageous enough to take risk will accomplish nothing in life.
• TM Pravin Mani - A good friend knows all your stories, but best friend has lived with them.
• TM Ravi Kumar - If your friends don’t make fun of you, they’re not really your friends.
• TM Saravana Kumar - Friends should be like books, few but selected.
• TM Srikar - Trust but verify.
• Guest Muthuraman - What was the most difficult choice in your life.
• Guest Muthuraman - Unexpected friendships are the best one.
• Guest Srinithi Rao - Who is your best friend and why?
• TM Anuj - Believe you can and you are halfway there.
• Guest Naresh - Good things come to those who wait. 

11:35A.M – EVALUATION SESSION

TM Prakash, TM Supraja and TM Bharathi were called to share the Timer, Ah-Counter and grammarian report for the session respectively.

TM Ganesh, General evaluator, then shared the overall feedback of the session. He appreciated the good things in the meeting being the Energy and the meeting being conducted in a formal and structured manner and the meeting could have started a little early.

11:50 P.M – BEST PERFORMERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

TT SPEAKER	TM SIDHARTH
ROLE PLAYER	TM SELVAN & TM HELEN
TAG ROLE PLAYER	TM SUPRAJA

12:00 NOON – MEETING ADJOURNED

Presiding Officer adjourned the meeting to the 14th of AUGUST 2016 and invited us all for high tea.

KNOW ABOUT US

Chennai Speakers Forum is one of the active Toastmasters Club in Chennai. Started in September 4, 2011 the club continues to empower the public speaking and leadership skills to the aspiring individuals. Fondly referred as CSF, Chennai Speakers Form has a great mix of CXOs and college students which makes it a great learning place.

Please visit out website at http://www.chennaispeakersforum.com/ to know more about us

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Supraja Ashok

Secretary

Chennai Speakers forum
E- mail: supraja.asb@gmil.com