Weekly meeting, July 22th, 2010

We had an interesting evening yesterday during Professional Toastmasters Club Meeting. Despite thin attendance, all the attendees enjoyed themselves. The meeting was presided by TM Fahim and was conducted by TM Iqbal Bakhshi. Table Topics session was conducted by TM Shahrukh.

TM Sajjad Zahoor gave presentation from better club series and TM Shahrukh evaluated the presentation.

Evaluation session was conducted by TM Fahim and table topics speeches were evaluated by TM Hassnain. Interestingly there was a tie among all the table topics speakers.

Meeting Update July 08, 2010

July 07, 2010 has become a pivotal day in the history of Professionals' Toastmasters Club, as the club has successfully organized "Communication Skills Development" Workshop in the Institute of Psychology (Affiliated with Karachi University). I really appreciate the efforts of our Past President (Mr. Sajjad Zahoor) our Current President (Mr. Fahim-uz-Zaman) and all the other seven (07) toastmasters who devoted their time before the the workshop for preparation and on the day of workshop to deliver excellent speeches in front of external audience.

Moreover on July 08, the club's weekly meeting was organized at Conventional Location (Beach Luxury Hotel), but since most of the toastmasters were present in last day's Workshop and the weather forecast of the city was not good either so attendance was low and only five (05) people attended the meeting. Despite of low attendance, Toastmaster Master of the Evening (TM Hussnain Yaser) and Table Topics Master (TM Sajjad Zahoor) have put up a great show. As all the participants have been given the speaking opportunity twice to express their ideas and thoughts in Table Topic Session. Toastmaster Sajjad Zahoor gave some serious and some very humorous topics to the toastmasters. The second table topics session was purely based on humorous speeches which really made the meeting more lively and interactive.

Toastmaster Maneckji presented his 10th Speech of the Basic communication manual and has joined the Circle of Competent Communicators. He has become the fifth toastmaster who started their journey with PTMC and achieved the Competent Communicator Award. Congratulations!! to Toastmaster Maneckji.

Toastmaster Nazir Vaid was the General Evaluator as well as Table topics Evaluator, who offered good evaluations to all the speakers along with highlighting some areas of improvement. I am sure that toastmasters will work on his suggestion to improve their communication skills.

Meeting Update, July 1st, 2010

We had yet another interesting session of the Professional Toastmasters Club meeting. Altogether 12 people attended the meeting. The meeting was conducted by TM Hanif Sattar and was presided over by TM Sajjad Zahoor. Table topics session was conducted by Maneckji.

Prepared speeches were delivered by TM Chohan, TM Umer and TM Maneckhi. TM Chohan delivered speech on body language from Better Speaker Series.

TM Umer delivered speech on Organizing Your Speech from Better Speaker Series.

TM Manecjki delivered speech as part of the project 9 from basic manual.


Evaluation session was conducted by TM Fahim and table topics were evaluated by TM Umer. TM Harris was voted as the best table topics speaker.

During the meeting installation ceremony for the incoming executive committee also took place. Following is the list of members of new committee for the next 12 months:

TM Sajjad Zahoor: Immediate Past President & VP (Membership)
TM Fahim uz Zaman: President
TM Umer Ahmad: VP (Education)
TM Iqbal Bakhshi: VP (Public Relations)
TM Mahmood: Secretary
TM Avan B Aga: Treasurer
TM Harris Sajjad: Sergent at Arms