Meeting No 241 - Minutes

Attendees

TM Siddarth	TM Shriram	TM Selvan	TM Rajesh
TM Arun Sridhar	TM Sujith Mathew	TM Bharthi Goel	TM Srikar
TM Karthik	TM Nagaraj	TM Pratheema	TM Kishore
TM Gopal	TM Sowmya	Guest Vishal	Guest Syed
Guest Sriman	Guest TM Anura Perera

The 241^st Chennai Speaker Forum meeting kick started on 12^th Feb’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started on sharply on time at 10 am with a high energy and great vigor!

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.                                                             

Meeting was called to order by the acting Sergeant at Arms ,TM Barthi Goel, who explained the mission and vision of Toastmasters and control was handed to The President.

10.05 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

President TM Siddarth delivered his address and declared the meeting open.

10:10 A.M. – PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD.

Presiding office TM Siddarth introduced the TMOD – TM Pratima Jain ,who announced the Theme and word of the day .

Theme Of The Day: Be passionate

Word of the day: “Magnificent” Meaning: Grand, Splendid in appearance.

10:15 A.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION.

TMOD introduced the General Evaluator for the meet, TM Sowmya, Who explained his role and in turn announced the TAG Role Players of the day ,as below

Grammarian – TM Gopalakrishnan

Ah Counter – TM Srikar

Timer – TM Nagarajan

  

10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

Speakers	Speech Info
Speaker : TM Sidharth Evaluator: TM Rajesh	Manual: Competent Communication Project #5 : Your body speaks (5-7 mins) Title: A professional what?
Speaker : TM Arun Sridhar Evaluator: TM Karthikeyan Arumugam ACS,ALB	Manual: Competent Communication Project #6 : Vocal Variety (5-7 mins) Title: The card table

10:50 A.M. – TABLE TOPIC SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to TM Sujith Mathews, who essayed the Tale Topics Master role with ease. Following are some of the topics he gave to the members, most of them open ended questions that were simple and thought provoking.

• 1.      When was your first impression of something gone wrong?
• 2.      What makes someone a hero.
• 3.      If I could grant you one wish, what could that be?
• 4.      Which hobby of yours make you lose track of time?
• 5.      What are the three qualities, you would look in a friend?
• 6.      Beauty resides in the beholders eyes.
• 7.      Name one super power you would like to have and why?
• 8.      When was the last time you tired something new?

11:20 A.M. – EVALUATION SESSION

The General Evaluator was called upon by the TMOD for an evaluation session. The GE and his team of evaluators presented their evaluations.

TM Rajesh evaluated TM Siddarth’s speech – Project #5 from CC Manual.

TM Karthik evaluated TM Arun’s speech – Project #6 from CC Manual.

Areas of improvement pointed out by the evaluators were largely relating to tone of speech, rate of speech, timing of pauses to get the dramatic effect.

The control was handed back to GE.

11:30 A.M. – SPECIAL TT EVALUATION SESSION

The GE introduced the new session for the day – TT Evaluation session which was conducted by TM Selvan. He evaluated all the TT session participants and gave a bespoke feedback to each one of them and later handed back the control to the GE.

11:40 A.M. – TAG TEAM & GE REPORT

GE requested the Tag role players to present their reports, which was later followed by the GE Report for the day.

The GE noted that the room was well prepared as requested during the previous GE report. Also, observed that the hard copy of agenda was not distributed and the theme of the day and word of the day weren’t written anywhere.

GE also noticed and appreciated that the evaluators used the sandwich technique while delivering their evaluations.

11:45 A.M. – TEST YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

TM Sowmya conducted this session. She quizzed the attendees on the facts that were thrown during that day’s session and finally control was handed back to the President. 

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  

President acknowledged the below winners

Best Speaker –  TM Arun

Best Evaluator – TM Rajesh

Best Role Player – TM Prathima

Best Tag Role Player- TM Gopal

11:56 A.M. – GUESTS FEEDBACK

President requested guests for their feedback on the session. Every Guest was heard and all of them had good feedback's and they expressed their desire to join the Club.

We had a special guest feedback from TM Anura Parera , who gave very good feedback to the club and appreciated the quality of the club.

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The President made announcements on membership renewal before he adjourned the meeting to 19^th Feb’17.