Meeting No 242 - Minutes

Attendees

TM Siddarth	TM Shriram	DTM Saro	TM Janani
TM Pratima Jain	Guest TM Siddhant Bhattacharya	TM Basheer	TM Karthik Arumugam
TM Rajesh Natrajan	TM Rajesh Velpandian	TM Manoj Alugumalai	TM Gopalakrishnan
TM Sowmya	TM Nagarajan	TM Vijayaragavan	TM Srikar
TM Nandhini	Guest Sri Murugan	Guest Mukesh	TM Supraja

The 242^nd Chennai Speaker Forum meeting kick started on 19^th Feb’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started on sharply on time at 10 am with a high energy and a packed house!

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.                                                             

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

10.05 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

Before declaring the meeting open, President TM Siddarth set the tone of the meeting right by narrating an inspiring story on how right strategy helped Indian Navy attack the PNS Gazhi in spite of being short of resources to resist an attack.

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

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

Theme Of The Day: It’s never too late

Word of the day: “Perseverance”.

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

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

Timer - TM Shriram Sridhar

Ah Counter - TM Nagarajan

Grammarian - TM Vijayaragavan CC,ALB

10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

The Prepared Speech segment started with TMOD calling upon the Guest speaker TM Siddanth Battacharya from Wordsmiths Club. Here's a quickie on the session ..

Speaker & Evaluators	Project	Brief Of Speech
Speaker : TM Siddhant Bhattacharya Evaluator: TM Sidharth	Manual: Competent Communication Project #5: Your body speaks (5-7 mins) Title: To be or not to be	TM Siddanth gave an effective speech pointing out that judging others always leads to misconceptions
Speaker : TM Basheer Ahmed Mentor : TM Rajesh Natarajan ACS,ALB Evaluator: TM Rajesh Velpandian CC,CL	Manual: Competent Communication Project #6 : Vocal Variety (5-7 mins) Title: Learn to earn	TM Basheer beautifully narrated the story of a career oriented person whose life revolved around earning for his family and finally not being able to enjoy life with his family.
Speaker : TM Karthikeyan Arumugam ACS,ALB Evaluator: DTM Saro	Manual: ACG Story telling manual Project #1 : The Folk tale (7-9 mins)	TM Karthik recollected instances from epics like Mahabaratha and Ramayana in captivating way.

By the end of this segment, TMOD requested the gathering to vote for the best speaker and proceeded to the next segment.

10:50 A.M. – TABLE TOPIC SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to TM Gopal, who essayed the role of Table Topics Master. A mock Table Topics Contest was held and even the topics that were given away to the contestants were of contest material. Below were some of the topics.

• -        Whether you think you can or you cant, you are right!
• -        The bigger the mountain, better the view
• -        Life is a tragedy when seen in close and comedy when seen from a long shot
• -        All that glitters is not gold.

11:20 A.M. – EVALUATION SESSION

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

Take away comments from the evaluators are as below

• TM Siddarth recommended that the speech can be prevented from getting cut short ,while delivering the project 5 from CC Manual.
• TM Rajesh while evaluating a project 6 delivery from CC Manual , recommended the speaker to improve on body language as it gave away the story or the surprise element in the story.
• DTM Saro while evaluating the project 1 from ACG Story Telling Manual ,suggested the speaker to induce experience through entertainment and wisdom.

After the evaluations of the speech segment, the control was handed back to GE.

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

The GE introduced the TT Evaluator of the Day – TM Rajesh Natrajan, who gave away his evaluation on all the TT speeches delivered.

TT Evaluator, TM Rajesh Natrajan suggested the below tips for all the contestants to ace the TT Contests.

1. -        Stick to a time limit of 1 min and bring a logical conclusion after this time limit is reached.
2. -        Don’t pack too much of detail.
3. -        As practice makes a man perfect, regular participation would aid the opportunity to practice.

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

The GE handed the control back to the President, who called upon the Secretory for the M.O.M. Recap Session.

11:45 A.M. – M.O.M. RECAP SESSION

The Secretory, TM Sowmya, gave a quick recap on the previous meet and handed the control back to the President. 

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  

President acknowledged the below winners

Best Speaker –  TM Siddanth

Best Evaluator – DTM Saro

Best TT Speaker -  TM Rajesh Velpandian

Best Role Player – TM Janani

Best Tag Role Player- TM Vijay

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 feedbacks. Some of the notable feedbacks from guests were as follows,

-        The mere presence of Toastmasters like DTM Saro and TM Rajesh Natrajan frequenting this club is seen as CSFs strength, because their wisdom has been helping the members learn and grow every session.

-        CSF is one of clubs where energetic and passionate speakers who are young, encouraging and welcoming.

DTM Saro had also provided his feedback to CSF members, he recommended that the role players come better prepared and felt that the members can arrive earlier to the meet.

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The President made announcements on membership renewal schemes – INR 4500 until March 5^th and INR 4750 beyond.

The meeting was adjourned to 26^th Feb’17.