Monthly Archive for March, 2010

Fun in Mar 25 meeting

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Susan Zhou, DTM
on 26 March, 2010
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The interesting Table Topic Session is about “Conflicts at home”, performed by the couple, Minnie and Twinsen. Thank you for bringing us so many laughters and vivid (also reality) show:

New member Induction. When we grow, we will have more fun!

Minnie, KC, Joy, Carlo, Andrew, Aky

(also see New member Induction 新会员入会 )

Speaking with Metaphor: 25 March meeting

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Susan Zhou, DTM
on 19 March, 2010
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This week, we will be welcoming back our EVP, Emily Minor ACB ALS, as TME and our previous EVP, Daniel Smith DTM to deliver our Summitting Session on Speaking with Metaphor.

Throughout the world, metaphors are powerful tools for conveying meaning and moving audiences. How well are you using metaphors now? In this 20 minute session we will learn from NLP Trainer and experienced speaker Daniel Smith how we can make metaphors work for us in our speaking.

Also starring this week we have speeches from:

Susan Zhou DTM delivering her C4, evaluated by Jenny Ni CC CL
KC Loh delivering her A7, evaluated by Aky CC
Carlo Wolff ACB ALB delivering his A16, evaluated by Joyce Hu CC CL

Table Topics will be led by Minnie Li and our General Evaluator will be Andrew Wong

Club Contests: International, Table Topics and Mandarin Showcase

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Susan Zhou, DTM
on 12 March, 2010
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The CAT meeting as well as Speech Contest last night was really exciting experience. Members from iGrow, Fluor, Mandarin Dynamic, Ideal and Shanghai People Square also come to enjoy and learn from each other.

The winners and representatives to Area F61 speech contest on April 11 are:

  • International Speech Contest: Carlo Wolff (1st), Jenny Ni (2nd)
  • Table Topic Speech Contest: Carlo Wolff (1st), Joyce Hu (2nd)
  • Mandarin Showcase: Joyce Hu

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

photos of joint meeting

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Susan Zhou, DTM
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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. :)