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CAT meeting – April 22nd

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:59:38 +0000

This Thursday, TME Jenny Ni CC CL will lead us in a fun-filled meeting.

Table Topics Master Joyce Hu CC CL will warm up our speaking skills by challenging us to give impromptu speeches.

Remember the grammarian report that kept the audience laughing throughout it? Larry Schuster will be training at the District 85 Annual Conference in May. We’re honored that he’ll give CAT a preview of this workshop!

Learn how to use humor and exaggeration to correct and improve grammar problems in your club. In this workshop, you will find that a grammarian’s report no longer needs to be an unmemorable list of grammar and word usage errors. Using humor, Larry will show how to make routine grammar and word usage problems come alive in a way you will not forget. Check out his very new Shanghai Grammar Blog.

We’ll have speeches from Aky, KC and guest Fei Hong from the Leadership club.

Our newest member Carmel Valencia CC CL will share her thoughts on our meeting during her GE report. IEs include Susan Zhou DTM, Carlo Wolff ACB ALB, and Bill Wang ACB.

Don’t miss this meeting!

Speaking with Metaphor: 25 March meeting

Susan Zhou, DTM — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:17:15 +0000

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

Speech Contest training and joint meeting with Shanghai #1

Dan Smith, DTM — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:00:35 +0000

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

Meeting February 4

Susan Zhou, DTM — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:24:50 +0000

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

Meeting January 28th

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:43:36 +0000

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 Meeting January 14th

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:13:23 +0000

Come watch Susan Zhou DTM perform SUPER Table Topics. Think Table Topics are hard? Watch Susan give a 5 to 7 minute speech on a topic chosen by her evaluator!

Participate in the interactive training by Aky (Oemer Akyazici) CC “Saying No (Positively!)”.

Ask questions to Andrew Yuk Ho Wong ACB after he speaks about “How We Run an Advanced Toastmasters Club” in Hong Kong.

Watch as Spike Gu ACB & ALB performs his A20 speech from the storytelling manual, and as Yingdan Liu ACS & ALS gives her A30. (It’s her final speech to receive her DTM!)

REMEMBER, we are at our new venue. Please scroll down for the map and detailed directions!

December 17th Meeting

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:19:57 +0000

Since it is the holiday season, our theme for this meeting will be Compassion.

TME Susan Zhou, DTM, will lead the meeting. Jenny Ni, CC & CL, will facilitate a discussion on compassion.

Two of our speakers will be reaching a milestone in their Toastmasters journey. Spike Gu, ACB & CL, will be giving his A20 speech and Emily Minor, CC & ALS, will be giving her A10 speech. Joyce Hu, CC & CL, rounds out the prepared speakers.

GE Jack Guo, CC from IDEAL TMC, will give us the fresh perspective of a sister club member. IEs include Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB and Irene Zha, CC guest from Leadership TMC.

Guest Anna Zhou, from 5C+ TMC, is supporting CAT by timing our meeting.

Remember to email attend@ChinaAdvancedToastmasters.com if you’d like directions and a map to our venue!

December 10th – Triple Club Joint Meeting

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:26:48 +0000

This Thursday, Shanghai will experience something never seen before – a triple joint meeting! The theme of the meeting between CAT, People’s Square and Microsoft will be Celebration. The meeting starts at 6:45 PM.

The venue will be provided by Microsoft:

Room 073, 10F, No. 2 Building, Grand Gateway, 3 Hongqiao Road. (港汇大厦2号楼10F.073 Seminar room.) You can go into the building from the gate at Hongqiao road.

CAT members will focus on our speciality – evaluation! Please see below for the role takers from all three clubs.

Toastmaster	Michelle Lv (PS)
Variety session Owner	Sharp Xu (MS)
Table Topic Master	Densery Wang (MS)
Table Topic Evaluator	Franklin Zhang (PS)
Speaker 1	Christina Liao (C1) (MS)
Speaker 2	Lao Zhang (PS) (C5)
Speaker 3	Emily Zhu (PS) (C10)
Speaker 4	Julian Wu (A8) (MS)
General Evaluator	Charles Wang (MS)
Individual Evaluator (IE)1	Jenny Ni (CAT & PS)
IE2	Spike Gu (CAT & PS)
IE3	Joyce Hu (CAT)
IE4	Carlo Wolff (CAT)
Ah Counter	Louise Li (PS)
Grammarian	Emily Minor (CAT)
Timer	Elvis Wei (MS)

Next CAT Meeting – November 26th

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:36:10 +0000

Theme: Giving Critical Evaluations

TME – Spike Gu, ACB & CL

Summiting Session – Emily Minor, CC & ALS, on “Critical Left Brain/Right Brain Evaluations.”

Table Topics – Jenny Ni, CC & CL

Speakers:

Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB – The Emperor’s New Suit from the Storytelling manual
Susan Zhou, DTM – Lead and Learn for Resolving Conflict from the Professional Speakers manual

We’ll have a guest General Evaluator, Gabor Holch, the president of Leadership TMC! Rebecca Hong, DTM and District 85 Governor, and Joyce Hu, CC & CL, will be our individual evaluators.

We’ll be meeting at the Carpark, our super-secret underground lair. Admission is just 30 RMB for members of other TM clubs, and 40 RMB for non-TM members. We hope to see you there!

Speakers: Remember to bring an SD card to the meeting so we can record your speech or training, and you can take the recording home with you that night!

November 11th Meeting with Leadership TMC

Emily Minor, CAT VPE — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:55:33 +0000

CAT will have a joint meeting on Wednesday, November 11th with the Leadership Toastmasters Club. We’ll be meeting at their venue, located in meeting room 3F, North Building of Yunfeng Hotel, No.1700 Beijing Xi Road,
close to Wanhangdu Road. The meeting starts at 7:00 PM sharp! Click here for directions in Chinese and a map.

Leading the meeting will be TME Carlo Wolff, ACB & ALB, past president of Leadership and current president of CAT.

Susan Zhou, DTM will present the Summiting Session on “Resolving Club Conflicts.”
Native English speaker Emily Minor, CC & ALS, will be looking for excellent and improper word usage in the Grammarian role.
Individual Evaluators are Joyce Hu, CC & CL, and Jenny Ni, CC & CL, along with two members of Leadership.