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

K. Beate Richter DTM will lead our Summitting Session on Coaching: Your support system towards success

Speech: John Ng CC

Speech: Joyce Hu CC CL Hakka (A7 from Speaking to Inform)

Super Table Topics: Raf Verheyen

TME – Dan Smith DTM

TTM – Susan Zhou DTM

GE – Spike Gu ACB CL

How to organize your speech is one of the first things we learn from our Competent Communicator manual. But when we need to speak off-the-cuff, how do we organize our thoughts with just a moments notice? Think of the message you want to get across and go from there! Members can practice this skill during our SUPER table topics session.

We’ll have our second round of Super Table Topics, where a member chooses five topics they are familiar with, and their evaluator chooses one of the five topics for the speaker to give a 5-7 minutes speech on.  Daniel Smith, Joyce Hu and Carlo Wolff will practice their impromptu speaking skills.

Susan Zhou’s speech is titled  “Go Beyond Shenzen Convention” and guest speaker Alice Yan will give her humorous contest speech “My Love My Toastmasters”.

The evaluation team of Jenny Ni, and Friedhelm Maur will be led by General Evaluator Daniel Smith.

You will find videos from parts of the session here.

All up, we enjoyed six training sessions over the course of the afternoon, mostly based on the Leadership Excellence, Better Speaker and Successful Club Series’ Toastmasters training programs:

• Plan Your Toastmasters Journey: Rebecca Hong DTM
• Impromptu Speaking: Sam Ng ACG CL
• Selecting Your Topic: Suhail Nasir ACB ALB
• Evaluate to Motivate: Daniel Smith DTM
• Mentoring: Yingdan Liu ACS ALS
• Resolving Conflict: Andrew Shih ACS ALS

Also, we had speeches from:

• Flame Li CC CL,
• Cheng Zhiyuan CC CL,
• Michelle Lee ACB ALB,
• Cindy Mi CTM,
• Mollen Wang CC CL, and
• Michelle Lv CC

Complimented with CAT-style evaluations delivered by our own Carlo Wolff ACB CL, Wendy Wang ACB ALB, and Spike Gu ACB CL.

Congratulations to our Division Governor, Susan Zhou DTM, for bringing this event together, along with the other Division Governors, Joseph Hu CC ALB, and Louie Lu ACB CL.

• TME John Ng CC
• Summiting Session on Speech Contests from Susan Zhou DTM
• Speech from Wendy Wang ACB ALB
• Speech from two Synopsys members
• IE’s Spike Gu ACB CL and Dan Smith DTM
• GE Carlo Wolff ACB CL

• TME – Bill Wang, ACB
• TTM – Raf Verheyen
• Speakers – Susan Zhou, DTM and John Ng, CC
• GE – Jenny Ni, CC & CL
• Left-Brain Right-Brain Evaluation Team – Linda Ma, CC and Joyce Hu, CC & CL

Get ready to experience the first session of SUPER TABLE TOPICS!

• TME Joyce Hu CC CL
• TTM Linda Ma CC
• Special visitor from Australia, Andrew Smith, will deliver his C10 speech
• Organisational Growth by Entering New Markets, Carlo Wolff ACB CL
• Summiting Session: Super Table Topics with Dan Smith DTM
• GE Spike Gu ACB CL

Super Table Topics are a special new initiative for China Advanced Toastmasters. Just imagine a speech-length Table Topics session…

Organisational Growth by Entering New Markets, Carlo Wolff ACB CL

3-5min presentation, 2-3min Q&A. Radio Talk Show from Public Relations Advanced Manual

25 June, 2009 from 7:10pm

• TME Dan Smith DTM
• TTM Jenny Ni CC CL
• Speech: John Ng CC
• HPLP Launch speech: Carlo Wolff ACB CL
• General Evaluator: Susan Zhou DTM
• Individual Evaluator: Emily Minor CC ALS
• Individual Evaluator: Wendy Wang ACB ALB

• TME Delphy Chow ACS CL
• TTM Spike Gu ACB CL
• Lunch Date Linda Ma CC
• DSLR Photography Emily Minor CC ALS
• Love Languages Wendy Wang ACB ALB
• IE Jenny Ni CC CL
• GE Carlo Wolff ACB CL

• Utilization: Use whatever happens to get across your message.
• Frame the message and prepare the audience.
• Say less; communicate more.
• Take your time. When you do, speak with a purpose.
• Share the emotional component of the message, not just the content. Communicate feeling AND information. They’ll remember the feeling long after they forget your information and will forget your information immediately if they don’t like the feeling they get around you.
• Everytime we stand up, we’re looking to expand our skills. There are no small roles, only short ones. When you have a short role, it’s a concentrated experience to use in refining your skills.
• Set the frame – when you speak, identify the criteria for success or at least the guidelines that you are working towards.
• There are no excuses – don’t make them for yourself or give them to other people. Just give your best. Always.
• When things go wrong, strive to make the problem invisible. Make it look as though it was part of the plan.
• Give your audience the gift of your message. They are VIPs (Very Important People) so if you don’t have a point to saying something yet, think of one.
• Great evaluators highlight examples of great things that we can learn from, highlight ways that we can improve and presents the combination of the two for the benefit of the audience. Speak of “the speaker” to the audience rather than speaking to the speaker. Give your personal evaluation for the speaker later.
• Have a great introduction. Introductions set the stage for the audience and help them get more from the presentation. The easiest way is to write one yourself.