This will be our election meeting – the opportunity for our members step up and learn even more. This will be the fourth executive team, so we’re really looking forward to our new group.
Our executive for 2009-2010
- President: Carlo Wolff ACB CL
- VPE: Emily Minor CC ALS
- VPM: Joyce Hu CC CL
- VPPR: Spike Gu ACB CL
- Treasurer: Linda Ma CC
- Secretary: Dan Smith DTM
We particularly look forward to welcoming our Founding President, Sam Jones DTM, to attend this meeting, the first time he’s been able to attend a CAT meeting since moving abroad.
28 May, 2009 from 7:10pm
- TME Jenny Ni CC CL
- TTM Delphy Chow ACS CL
- Speech: Spike Gu ACB CL
- Speech: Wendy Wang ACB ALB
- IE Linda Ma CC
- IE Michelle Lee ACB ALB
- GE: Sam Jones DTM
For venue details, please email attend@chinaadvancedtoastmasters.com
This will be a particularly special CAT meeting, as it will be the last regular meeting for our Founding President, Sam Jones DTM – at least for a while. It will also be the last meeting for our favourite Canadian, Chris Haynes CC, who will be taking the long road back across the Pacific too…
Our Summiting Session for this meeting, focused on Body Language and Using the Stage will be led by Spike Gu ACB CL.
- TME Emily Minor CC CL
- Speech Chris Haynes CC
- Speech Wendy Wang ACB ALB
- Speech Daniel Smith DTM
- GE Delphy Chow ACS CL
- IE Carlo Wolff ACB
Our venue is very close to Nanjing West subway station. We’ll send it out to everybody on the email list – or who asks of course! Just email “attend@chinaadvancedtoastmasters.com” or subscribe by emailing “agenda-subscribe@chinaadvancedtoastmasters.com” and we’ll make sure you get it.
Congratulations to our newest Advanced Communicator Bronze, Carlo Wolff.
We enjoyed a series of great presentations at CAT last night. Here are some of the things I noted from the training on organizing your speech from Sam Jones DTM:
- Are going to entertain, persuade, inspire or inform? Keep your speech aligned with that purpose.
- Beyond the basic outline (introduction, body and conclusion), look for alternative structures. Sure, there’s the basic three points, but there are other structures too – like compare and contrast, time (past-present-future), and telling a story (with a lesson).
A few other things that I noted from the evening:
- Delete everything you can. If you are evaluating a speaker and don’t have something to say on a point, just move to the next point rather than saying that you don’t have anything to add. Focus on what you are there to say and do your best to skip the rest.
- Test humor one-on-one. To find out whether a joke is funny, try telling the joke without much emotion to someone in general conversation – if they smile, you might have something worth using (thanks Warwick).
- You might feel like you don’t have enough time, but don’t bother telling the audience – they probably won’t learn better by you telling them that you’re rushing. Instead, act like you have all the time in the world.
- And thanks to Emily Minor CC CL for demonstrating how when you are introducing a speaker, you can just keep clapping until they get to the front of the room – it’s a simple courtesy but looks very professional.
For me, one of the highlights of the evening was having the majority of DTMs in China in the room at one time, something that usually only happens at Conferences and Conventions. Our whole individual evaluation team consisted of DTMs – Rebecca Hong (also Lt Gov Education and Training), Warwick John Fahy (past Chairman of China) and Sam Jones (our Immediate Past President). This yielded what I think was the most rewarding, stimulating and valuable evaluations session I can remember – thanks to each of you for your contributions!
Videos from the night to come soon.
Our next meeting is 8 January next year when we’ll have a training on body language delivered by Spike Gu ACB CL.
This Thursday night – from 7pm
Summiting Session: Organizing Your Speech Sam Jones DTM
Speech Carlo Wolff CC
Speech Jenny Ni CC CL Woman? Woman! Woman…
Speech Spike Gu ACB
Speech Dan Smith DTM
TTM Emily Minor CC CL
GE Wendy Wang ACB ALB
Timer Joyce Hu CC
And do checkout the post from our President, Emily Minor CC CL, about her Summitting Session on “How to Say It” from our last meeting here.
And have a look at our flyer with the next few months planned Summiting Sessions…
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CAT Summitting Sessions – flyer
Continue reading ‘Get your speech organized this week at CAT’
This week, we are focused on How to Say It. This is one of the early projects in the Competent Communicator manual, but it contains many powerful lessons for all of us. On our agenda:
- TME Sam Jones DTM
- Training Wishing your words would work well? Emily Minor CC CL
- Speech Wendy Wang ACB ALB
- Speech Daniel Smith DTM – C1 revisited…
- GE Chris Haynes CC
- IE Joyce Hu CC
Remember: Membership is restricted to CCs and above but meetings are open to all.
Thursday night at Baileman.
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