Professional Toastmasters Club, Karachi: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

TASTE THE CHANGE...

Professional Toastmasters Club has arranged the next club meeting on thursday 2^nd of February 2012 from 6:30 till 8:30 at new and unique venue T2F.

The Second Floor (T2F) is the first project of PeaceNiche. A community space for open dialogue,

T2F features:

Community Space for Conversation and Discourse

Platform for Debates, Discussions, Talks, and Creative/Performing Arts

Gallery Space for Emerging Designers, Artists, and Photographers

Bookshop

Coffeehouse

Mentoring Space

PTC Fee Rs. 450/- each member

Directions from Sunset Boulevard

From Sunset Boulevard, on the way to Korangi Road, turn right at 8th Sunset Street (the last traffic signal after the Defence Library before hitting Korangi Road)

Take the second left at Sunset Lane

Take the first right at Sunset Lane 5

The building has a red brick exterior and there is a Utility Store right opposite

(Please find the attached location map as well)

The last meeting of the Professional’s Toastmasters Club was on 26th January, 2012. The venue of the meeting was Beach Luxury hotel.

Toastmaster was TM Dr. Avan and Topicmaster was TM Maneckji. General Evaluator was TM Maneckji and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Fahim.

The team of the General Evaluator included TM Ibad as the Timer and as the Vote Counter, DTM Fazal as the Grammarian, TM Aqeel as the Ah-Counter and TM Tauseef as the Word-Master.

Prepared Speech: DTM Fazal Evaluated by TM Fahim.

Important observations were made and shared in the Evaluation session.

The winner of the Prepared Speeches session was DTM Fazal. And the winner of the Best Table Topics award was DTM fazal and the runner up TM Dr. Avan.

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Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AngelToastmaster
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Persistence is the path to success. Toastmaster is the vehicle you arrive in.

PTC workshop started with great enthusiasm held on 12^th January, 2012 at Beach Luxury Hotel.

Theme: ‘Realities of Life’

Fellow Toastmasters:

Toastmaster of the evening was TM Dr, Avan.
Table Topicmaster was DTM Fazal .
General Evaluator was TM Panjwani.
Table Topics Evaluator was TM Maneck.

Sergeant at Arms, TM Dr. Avan started with TM’s Pledge with full of energy.

Every Toastmaster was prepared to take responsibility for any unexpected absence of Toastmasters.

The team of the General Evaluator included TM Maneck as the Timer and the TM Adnan as the Vote Counter, TM Dr. Avan as the Grammarian, TM Maneck as the Ah-Counter and TM Fazal as the Word-Master.

Table Topics assigned by Topicmaster DTM Fazal were awesome.

Prepared Speech: TM Panjwani Evaluated by TM Fahim.

Prepared Speech: TM Hammad Evaluated by TM Adnan.

Important observations were made and shared in the Evaluation session.

The winner of the Prepared Speeches session was TM Panjwani and the runner up TM Hammad. And the winner of the Best Table Topics award was TM Hammad and the runner up TM Dr. Avan.

We ended up with the aim of making next session out of the box because we all know what life skills can Toastmasters help us to develop:

ü Thinking on your feet (table topics and evaluations)

ü Listening skills (evaluation, table topics, grammarian, etc.)

ü Time management (speaker, toastmaster, general evaluator, timer)

ü Effective expression of ways for someone to improve (evaluator and general evaluator) especially helpful if you are required to give performance evaluations

ü Speaking skills in both formal and informal settings

Contact us at:
Blog:http://professionaltoastmaster.blogspot.com/2011/12/cup-of-tea-with-friend.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/115112398014/?ref=ts

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/AngelToastmaster
Web Site: Coming soon!

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Excellence is an attitude!

PTC workshop started with great enthusiasm held on 29th December, 2011 at Beach Luxury Hotel.

Theme: ‘Excellence.’

Fellow Toastmasters:

Toastmaster of the evening was TM Jaan Ali.
Table Topicmaster was TM Tahir.
General Evaluator was TM Shahrukh.
Table Topics Evaluator was TM Adnan.

Sergeant at Arms, TM Tahir started with TM’s Pledge with full of energy.

Although with thin attendance, every toastmaster participated well to keep their motivation up.

General Evaluator TM Shahrukh introduced his team with boom, TM Hammad as the Timer and the Vote Counter, TM Shahrukh as the Grammarian, TM Adnan as the Ah-Counter and TM Shahrukh as the Word-Master.

Word of the day was Extract.

Table Topics assigned by Topicmaster TM Tahir were awesome:

TM Fazal-Excellence is attitude.

TM Ibad: What would your vision of excellence look like?

TM Panjwani: How did you achieve excellence in completing your C.C. manual.

TM Adnan: How to bring excellence in personal relations.

TM Jaan: How can you bring excellence in increasing the membership of the club.

TM Shahrukh: what is the greatest hurdle in your past to achieving excellence?

TM Hammad: How can you bring excellence in your education?

Prepared Speech of the meeting were presented by TM Panjwani, Evaluated by TM Ibad from the Manual: Public Relations, Project four and Title: Building Oil and Ghee Factory.

Competitive part of the meeting by TM Tahir, Debate between two teams:
Team one in the favor of Luck (TM Fazal, TM Jaan and TM Adnan )
Team Two in the favor of Hard-work (TM Shahrukh, TM Ibad and TM Panjwani)

Significant observations were made and shared in the Evaluation session.

The winner of the Prepared Speeches session was TM Panjwani. And the Runner up of the Best Table Topics award was TM Adnan and winner of the Best Table Topics Award was TM Fazal.