This Thursday night, 25 February, LDG(E&T) Yingdan Liu DTM will be leading a Summitting Session on Introductions. Also on the starring:
TME: Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC
Timer: Minnie Li CC
Table Topics Master: Spike Gu ACB CL
Speeches
Jenny Ni CC Fall in Love With Yourself
Manual: Humorously Speaking | Project: keep them laughing (A6)
Objective 1: Prepare a speech that opens with a self-deprecating joke;
Objective 2: String together two or three related jokes in the speech body;
Objective 3: Close the speech with a humorous story.
KC Loh CC The Secret
Manual: Speaking to Inform | Project: The Abstract Concept (A6)
Objective 1: Research and organize the thought of experts on an abstract concept, theory, historical force, or social/political issue;
Objective 2: Present the ideas in a clear and interesting manner.
Andrew Wang ACB Smoking Should Not Be Allowed in Any Restaurant
Manual: Persuasive Speaking | Project: Addressing the Opposition (A19)
Objective 1: Prepare a talk on a controversial subject that persuades an audience to accept or at least consider your viewpoint;
Objective 2: Construct the speech to appeal to the audience’s logic and emotions.
And we will enjoy a senior evaluations team led by President Carlo Wolff ACB ALB as General Evaluator, and supported by Joyce Hu CC CL, Bill Wang ACB and Yingdan Liu DTM.
Thursday night, 25 February, from 7pm.
Hope you can make it!
It can be hard work to deliver a presentation that is smooth, insightful and ends right on time. One of the speakers who really seems to get it right is Malcolm Gladwell. If you have ever watched him speak (like here on TED), you may notice that he speaks eloquently, even effortlessly, and ends with precise punctuality.
But when asked about it once, Gladwell replied, “I know it may not look like this. But it’s all scripted. I write down every word and then I learn it off by heart. I do that with all my talks and I’ve got lots of them.”
It’s great to connect with your audience as if you were just having a casual chat with them. And sometimes that’s precisely what you will want to do. Other times, when you want to really nail it, you might be better off going beyond the bullet points to rehearse, refine and distill the most important information that you are there to share. And find yourself on a level where you have that polish that casual (amateur?) speaking just doesn’t allow.
While memorizing isn’t “the answer”, if you want to deliver a professional-standard speech, you might find yourself enjoying an interesting experience if you treat your next presentation as a performance.
At least that what seems to work for the guy who wrote The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and, most recently, What the Dog Saw.
TME – Andrew Yuk Ho Wong, ACB
Summiting Session – Susan Zhou, DTM on Passion
SUPER Table Topics will be held again! Listen to Minnie from Novartis 1st give a 5 to 7 minute speech, speaking off the cuff. Super TT evaluator is Jenny Ni, CC/CL.
Prepared Speakers:
Joyce Hu, CC/CL Evaluator: Andrew Wong, ACB
Bill Wang, ACB Evaluator: Jenny Ni, CC/CL
Carlo Wolff: ACB & ALB Evaluator: Susan Zhou, DTM
TME – Susan Zhou DTM
Summiting Session – Carlo Wolff ACB ALB on Non-Verbal Communication
SUPER Table Topics will be held again! Listen to these members give a 5 to 7 minute speech, speaking off the cuff. Super TT speakers are Bill Wang ACB and Joyce Hu CC & CL. Super TT evaluator is KC Loh CTM.
Prepared Speakers:
– Andrew Yuk Ho Wong ACB
– Raf Verheyen CC
– Jack Guo CC & CL
Individual Evaluators:
– Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC
– Jenny Ni CC CL
CAT had a great meeting last night – great new venue, lots of guests, the most entertaining grammarian report ever, three people honored for achieving a new TM educational award, a DTM created… we’re exciting to be starting 2010 with lots of positive energy!
My question for you is – what can CAT help YOU with this year?
Is your goal to get another 10 speeches down? Do you want to compete in the international speech contest? Become a better trainer? Complete your DTM? Put on a TM event?
Do you want to train on a specific topic? Or give a speech to an advanced group to receive a bit tougher evaluation?
Please let us know! CAT can provide support in many ways!
We’re looking forward to 2010!
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