Meeting on Mar 25, 2010

TME: Emily Minor (Yes, our EVP will return!!!)

GE: Andrew Wong

Summitting Session: Yingdan Liu

Timer: TBD

Table Topics Master: Minnie Li

Speaker and IE:

Susan Zhou C4 – Jenny Ni

KC Loh A7 – Aky

Carlo Wolff A16 – Joyce Hu

Contest on Mar 11, 2010

International Speech Contest: Jenny Ni, Carlo Wolff

Table Topic Speech Contest: Jenny Ni, Carlo Wolff, Spike Gu, Minnie Li, Joyce Hu

Mandarin Showcase: Joyce Hu

Contest Chair: Susan Zhou

Chief Judge: Beate Richter

Timer: TBD

Counter: TBD

photos of joint meeting

over 30 attendances to the joint-meeting of Shanghai No.1 TMC and CAT!

As the General Evaluator, I’d like to share with you the following:

  1. The meeting was well organized:
    • thanks for the EVP of Shanghai No.1 , Jasmine and Asst. EVP of CAT Susan (me, our EVP, Emily, is not in town). The key to success is to plan and communicate with role-takers earlier (1-2 weeks before the meeting)
    • Snacks and Water (hot water in cold day is extremly welcomed) are ready, well done!
  2. The role takers are experienced and well prepared, expecially:
    • TMC, Alice, is humorous as usual
  3. I think the highlight of the evening is Yingdan’s training on Speech Contest
    • video of 2000 world Champion, Ed Tate, it’s very convicing and vivid
    • 3 winning points: Message (inspirational), Connection (with the audience), and Stage Performance
    • practice by LOVE (Learn, Observe, Visualize, Exceed the limit)
    • it would attract immediate and strong interest  if Yingdan could tell us why we should attend the contest in the opening

The only thing I hope we can improve is the speech evaluation. While we CAT members are proud of our critical thinking and frankly opened opinion on the speech evaluation, I do think it would be more motivated if we can:

  1. point out the advantages of the speaker and the speech first because the speaker will know which skills he/she has already possessed;
  2. focus on speaking skills instead of content
  3. provide suggestions or Demo to show how to improve

All in all, I enjoy the meeting. :)

CAT & SH No.1 joint-meeting 1 March: Challenge

Theme: Challenge (Joint Meeting with Shanghai No.1 Toastmasters Club)

Please be noted that both the time and venue have been changed:

Time: 7-9pm, Monday, March 1, 2010
Venue: 3/F, Conference Room, North Building, YunFeng Hotel, No#1700, West Beijing Rd.(Near Exit#2, Jing’an Temple Station,Exit 1, MetroLine#2)
近地铁2号线静安寺站1号出口北京西路1700(万航渡路口)云峰大酒店北楼三楼会议室

Toastmasters of the Evening: Alice Yan ACB/ALB (No.1)

Trainer of “Speech Contest”: Yingdan Liu DTM  (CAT)

Table Topics Master: KC Loh CC (CAT)
Table Topics Evaluator: Alex Cheng ACB/CL (No.1)

Speakers:
Hainan Yin(No.1) C5
Elsta Wei CC/CL(No.1) A9 “Low Carbon Life” Manual “Speaking to Entertain”
Carlo Wolff ACB/ALB (CAT) A12 manual “Public Relations”

Evaluators:
Jenny Ni CC/CL (CAT)
Andrew Wang ACB (CAT)
Twinsen Wu CC/CL (No.1)

General Evaluator: Susan Zhou DTM (CAT)
Timer: Shane Liu (No.1)
Grammarian: Joyce Hu (CAT)
Ah Counter/Gender Confusion: Mickey Su (No.1)

Speech Contest training and joint meeting with Shanghai #1

Training on Speech Contests: Warwick John Fahy DTM
Table Topics Master: KC Loh CC

Speaker: Carlo Wolff ACB ALB

General Evaluator: Susan Zhou DTM
Evaluator 1: Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC
Evaluator 2: Andrew Wang ACB