Meeting No 252 - Minutes

The 252^nd  Chennai Speaker Forum meeting was conducted on May 20^th, at Medley Toastmasters Club,Gandhi Nagar, Adyar.

Attendees included members from both Medley and CSF Club. 

Meeting started at 2:55 pm.

2:55 P.M.-  MEETING CALLED TO ORDER                                                                                    

The SAA for the day ,TM Shriram set the tone for the meet by explaining the mission and vision of every Toastmasters meet.He then handed over the control to the CSF President TM Siddarth.

3:00 P.M.- PRESIDENTS ADDRESS

The President addressed the mixed crowd from Medley and CSF and declared the meet open.

He also called upon the guests for the day for their introduction.    

        

3:05 P.M. – PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD.

The President introduced the ToastMaster of The Day – TM Pratima Jain. She explained the proceedings of the meet and introduced the word of the day and theme of the day

Theme Of The Day: Take a trip.

Word of the day: Motley Crew.

she later handed over the control to the General Evaluator.

3:10 P.M. – GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION.

The General Evaluator for the meet was TM Bharathi Goel, who explained her role and in turn announced the TAG Role Players of the day, as below

Timer – TM Shriram

Ah Counter - TM Shriram

Grammarian - TM Siddarth

Control was handed back to the TMOD.

3:15 P.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

We had 4 speakers for this session – Sowmya J giving her CC1, TM Sujith giving his CC3, TM Selvan giving his project 4 from ACB speeches by management and TM Manoj giving his project 2 from the high performance leadership.

All the speakers spoke for the time allocated and none were disqualified.

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

03:50 AM – TABLE TOPICS SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to Table Topics Master for the day ,TM Arun Kumar.

TT session saw some fine topics and participation from both Medley and CSF members.

By the end of the TT session, control was handed back to TMOD.

4:20 P.M. – EVALUATION SESSION

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

The evaluators were TM Rajesh Velpandian , TM Archana, TM Vivekanandan and TM Karthikeyan.

After the evaluations were done, the control was handed back to GE.

The GE ,in his report, noted the tranquil and ambient atmosphere at Medley Club, she was also in awe with the seating arrangements and the meeting conduct.

The GE handed the control back to the TMOD.

4:40 P.M.- TEST YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

The TMOD handed the control back to the President. who later handed over his control to his secretary, who did a recap of the minutes of  251^st CSF Session. And  asked questions from the current meet during test your listening skills.

4:50 P.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS     

The Presiding Officer called upon TM Godwin from Medley to acknowledged the below winners

Best Speaker –  TM Sujith

Best Evaluator – TM Archana

Best TT Speaker -  TM Siddarth

Best Role Player – TM Pratima

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The Presiding Officer thanked the Medley Clubs Excomm for accepting the exchange invite and welcomed the Medley Club Members to CSF the next day.

He also made an announcement about the upcoming Excomm election , the election chair – TM Siddarth and the election dates – June 11^th 2017.

The next CSF meeting was adjourned to 29^th May 2017. 

Meeting No 251 - Minutes

The 251^st Chennai Speaker Forum meeting was conducted on May 14^th, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting Attendees

DTM Saro Velrajan	TM Selvan	TM Vivekanandan	TM Karthikeyan
TM Rajesh Velpandian	TM Uday Kiran	TM Rajen Menon	TM Shriram Shridhar
TM Prasanna R	TM Nagaraj	TM Prakash	TM Praveen
TM Syed Ismail	TM Arun Kumar	TM Satish Kumar	TM Thyagarajan
TM Priya	TM Praveen	TM Prakash	TM Mukesh Singh
TM Archana	TM Kavin

Meeting started at 10 am.

10.00 A.M.  PRESIDING ADDRESS.

The Presiding Officer TM Shriram opened the meet and gave his address.             

10:04 A.M.- GUEST INTRODUCTIONS.

The guests were called upon for their Introductions.       

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

The Presiding officer introduced the ToastMaster of The Day – TM Prasanna Ranganathan.

Theme Of The Day: Epiphany

Word of the day: The Magic Of Believing .

He later handed over the control to the General Evaluator.

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

The General Evaluator for the meet was TM Rajen Menon, who explained his role and in turn announced the TAG Role Players of the day, as below

Timer – TM Syed

Ah Counter - TM Arun

Grammarian - TM Satish Kumar

Control was handed back to the TMOD.

10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

The prepared speeches of the day were by DTM Saro Velrajan and TM Selvan.

DTM Saro gave his CC6 – Vocal Variety titled “Lessons from Steve Jobs” – In his speech he highlighted the lessons he learnt from Steve Jobs , like “Quality is more important than quantity” and “Keeping things as simple as possible”.

TM Selvan gave his ACB from Speeches By Management – “Persuade and inspire” was his title. He spoke about the life of Gandhi , who inspite of his physical weakness ,had the courage and determination to fight against the British.

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

10:45 A.M. – EDUCATIONAL SESSION    

We had a wonderful educational session by TM Vivekanandhan, titled “World Of Fiction”,where he spoke about how to write a tall tale speech. He also held a mock Tall Tale Speech Session and insisted that this session be conducted in CSFs future meets.

Following this session, we had Table Topics Speech Session.

11:10 AM – TABLE TOPICS SESSION

TMOD handed over the control to Table Topics Master for the day ,TM Thyagarajan.

TT session saw some fine topics and participation from most of the attendees present.

By the end of the TT session, control was handed back to TMOD.

11:35 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 for all the prepared speeches.

The evaluators were TM Rajesh Velpandian and TM Karthikeyan Arumugan.

After the evaluations were done, the control was handed back to GE.

The GE handed the control back to the TMOD.

11:48 A.M.- TEST YOUR LISTENING SKILLS

The TMOD handed the control back to the Presiding Officer , who conducted the test your listening skills session and also did a M.O.M recap of the 250^th Meeting.

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  

The Presiding Officer acknowledged the below winners

Best Speaker –  DTM Saro Velrajan

Best Evaluator – TM Karthikeyan

Best TT Speaker -  TM Archana

Best Role Player – TM Prasanna

Best Tag Role Player- TM Satish Kumar

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The Presiding Officer also made an announcement about the upcoming Excomm election , the election chair – TM Siddarth and the election dates – June 11^th 2017.

The meeting was adjourned to 20^th May 2017.

Meeting No 250 - Minutes

The 250^th Meeting of Chennai Speakers Forum happened at Central Footwear Training Institute ,Guindy.

Meeting started at 10:08 am.

10:08 AM EVENT CHAIR DECLARES THE MEETING OPEN

The 250^th Meeting was declared open by the Event Chair – TM Pratima Jain, who welcomed the jam-packed hall full of Toast Masters from various clubs.

After addressing the attendees, she Introduced the emcees of the day – TM Selvan & TM Sowmya and handed them the control.

Event Chair In Action

10:11 AM AGENDA BRIEFED BY EMCEES

TM Selvan & TM Sowmya briefed the special agenda and the proceedings of the 250^th meet in a unique way and announced the Theme and the word of the day

Theme – ‘Transcend’

Word of The Day – ‘Jamboree’ – Meaning Celebrations.

The emcee duo later introduced the General Evaluator for the day TM Vivekanandan and handed over the control to him.

10:15 AM GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION

The GE TM Vivekanandan introduced his team of star studded evaluators –

DTM Saravana Kumar, TM Pravin Mani, TM Raghavan Sridhar, DTM Saro Velarajan.

And introduced his tag time consisting of

Timer – TM Prasanna , Ah Counter-TM Gopalakrishnan ,Grammarian – TM Sujith Mathews.

The GE handed back the control to the emcees.

10:20 AM PREPARED SPEECH SEGMENT

The milestone meet saw nothing less than milestone speeches, we had

TM Satish Kumar embarked on his CC journey by attempting project 1 – Ice Breaker – “A Shot at Redemption”. His speech was evaluated by DTM Saravana Kumar.

TM Uma Shankar CC, restarted his CC journey with his vegetable garden (Well, that was his speech title). His speech was evaluated by TM Pravin Mani.

TM Uma Shankar CC1 250th CSF Meet

VPE TM Shriram Shridhar completed his CC journey along with President TM Sidharth CL by attempting the project 10. Their speeches were evaluated by TM Raghavan Sridhar and DTM Saro Velrajan, respectively.

By the end of the prepared speech segment, the emcees transitioned the audience to the special education session of the eve, which was conducted by DTM Jayan Narayanan.

10:52 AM EDUCATIONAL SESSION BY DTM JAYAN

DTM Jayan Narayanan made the educational session so much fun and seamless by recounting his experiences with the contestants.  

He recounted how he had trained the contestants who sought his guidance before participating in the District or the Area level speech contests, and how each contestant differed from each other.

The session was so intriguing that time flew unnoticed.

The emcees thanked DTM Jayan and handed the control to the event chair, who announced a snack break.

11:20 AM – BREAK

Attendees had a merry over some lip smacking hot Aloo Bun (Crispy from outside and soft from inside) and ever juicy Fruity while socializing with the fellow Toast Masters.

11:40 AM – EDUCATIONAL SESSION BY DTM SUGANTHI

TM Bharathi addressed the meet and quickly gave the control to the emcees, who introduced DTM Suganthi and welcomed her to the fore for the educational session on “Taking leadership lessons from club to corporate”.

DTM Suganthi’s educational session was very informative, she quoted examples from her life - the lessons that she learned at Toast Masters and how incorporating them at workplace had helped her achieve success in people skills.

By the end of the session, control was handed back to the emcees, who introduced the Table Topics Master and handed him the control.

11:55 AM – TABLE TOPICS SESSION
TM Rajesh Velpandian hosted the Table Topics Session and he called upon various members from the audience to take part in this impromptu speech session.

This session saw some interesting topics and members from various clubs participating.

The table topics session ended sooner with the interest of time and control was handed back to the emcees, who later handed back the control to the GE.

TTM Rajesh Velpandian & Voluntary Participant TM Jayabalan

12:10 AM – EVALUATION SESSION

The much-awaited evaluation session happened swiftly with each evaluator being called upon by the GE.  The evaluators presented their reports with rapt attention from the attendees.

Later the GE read his report and the tag team reports were skipped with the interest of time.

The GE handed back the control to the emcees who thanked for their opportunity and handed back the control to the event chair.

12:25 AM – GUEST FEEDBACK AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS

The event chair requested The President of the club to address the meet and requested for Guest feedbacks.

Before announcing the winners, the chief Guests for the day – DTM Jayan & DTM Sugnathi were felicitated.

DTM Suganthi handed over the ENTHUSIASM AWARD to the President, VPE and to the first-time event chair – TM Prateema.

Later, the event chair announced the winners of the day

BEST SPEAKER – TM Siddarth

BEST TT SPEAKER – TM Jayabalan

BEST EVALUATOR – TM Raghavan Shridhar

BEST ROLE PLAYER – TM Vivekanandan

The meeting was adjourned to 14^th May ’17 and the session ended with a cake cutting culminating the milestone meet.

Meeting No 249 - Minutes

Attendees

TM Siddarth	TM Shriram	TM Srikar	TM Ganesh
TM Janani	TM Barathi Goel	TM Pranav	TM Prasanna
TM Pratima	TM Gopal	TM Rajeev Menon	TM Karthikeyan A
TM Sowmya	TM Nagaraj	TM Thyagarajan	Guest Aravind
Guest Riya

The 249^th Chennai Speaker Forum meeting was conducted on 30^th April’17, at Trust Conference Hall, Nungambakkam.

Meeting started at around 10 am.

10.00 A.M. SSA CALLS FOR MEETING.                                                             

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

10.03 A.M. PRESIDENT ADDRESS.

President TM Siddarth set the tone for the meet and declared the meet open in his ever exhilarating tone. 

CSF President Opening Style !

10:07 A.M.- GUEST INTRODUCTIONS.

The President requested the guests to introduce themselves. Guests for the day were Guest TM Ganesh,Riya and Aravind.

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

Presiding office TM Siddarth introduced the TMOD – TM Srikar , who briefed about the meeting and introduced the Theme and Word

Theme Of The Day: Plagiarism

Word of the day: Think Big,Start Small,Begin Now.

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

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

Timer – TM Gopal

Ah Counter - TM Thiyagarajan

Grammarian - TM Sowmya

Control was handed back to the TMOD.

Grammarian - TM Sowmya 

Ah Counter - TM Thiyagarajan

Timer - TM Gopal

10:20 A.M. – PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

The Prepared Speech segment started with TMOD calling upon the below speakers to present their prepared speech ,after their evaluators had set the objectives for the projects

Speaker & Evaluators	Project
Speaker : TM Nagarajan Evaluator: TM Bharathi Goel	Manual: Competent Communication Project #1 : Icebreaker (4-6 mins) Title: Running Life
Speaker : TM Prasanna Evaluator: TM Rajen Menon	Manual: Competent Communication Project #1 : Icebreaker (4-6 mins) Title: Break 3
Speaker : TM Shriram	Manual: Competent Communication Project #9 :Persuade With Power Title: When you are gone
Speaker : TM Sidharth Evaluator: TM Ganesh	Manual: Competent Communication Project #9 :Persuade With Power
Speaker : TM Karthikeyan Evaluator : TM Rajen Menon	Manual: Special Occasions Project #1: The Roast Title: Honorable Lord

Its notable that The Roast by TM Karthikeyan was about none other than our VPE TM Shriram.

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 Table Topics Master for the day ,TM Janani.

TT session saw some fine topics and participation from most of the attendees present.

By the end of the TT session, control was handed back to TMOD.

TM Janani - Cool & Casual TT Master 

11:25 A.M. – NEWSLETTER CONTEST

Newsletter contest was hosted by TM Bharathi Goel, who promised 2 free tickets to any movie of choice for the winners of the contest.

She quizzed the attendees on 5 questions based on the recently released CSF Newsletter and contestants were asked to write their answers discreetly on a piece of paper.

Winners of this contest are yet to be announced.

Control was handed back to TMOD ,who then called upon GE for the Evaluation Session.

11:35 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 for all the prepared speeches.

All the evaluators for the prepared speeches gave bespoke feedbacks to the speakers.

After the evaluations were done, the control was handed back to GE.

TM Rajen Menon's Encouraging Evaluation 

TM Ganesh Evaluating TM Siddarth's Speech

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.

GE noted that the meeting hall arrangements missed the display of clubs ribbons. He also noted that the Meeting attendance had gone low and requested those who attended the meet to be present at the venue, as early as 9:45 am.

The GE handed the control back to the President.

11:50 A.M. – GUESTS FEEDBACK

President requested guests for their feedback on the session. The guests liked the energy of CSF , they were impressed with the diverse backgrounds of the members and noted that the energy and synergy of talents from various fields ,make CSF sessions worthwhile and informative.

11:52 A.M. – ANNOUNCEMENTS OF WINNERS  

President called upon TM Karthikeyan to acknowledge the below winners

Best Speaker –  TM Prasanna

Best Evaluator – TM Ganesh

Best TT Speaker -  TM Siddarth

Best Role Player – TM Shriram

Best Tag Role Player- TM Sowmya

Best TT Speaker Yet Again !

Best Speaker right from CC#1 

Best Evaluator - TM Ganesh

12:00 P.M. – MEETING ADJOURNED

The President made announcements on the upcoming 250^th CSF Meeting and the education sessions and milestone speeches that would be a part of the grand celebration which is scheduled to happen coming Sunday at Central Footwear Training Institute ,Guindy.

The President also recognized the first time CC Speakers.

TM Prasanna & TM Nagaraj - Sitting , as they receive standing ovation.

Finally the meeting adjourned to 7^th May 2017.

Closing shots ...

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