Communication Skills

The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on April 7th, 2013. The venue of the meeting was the Carlton Hotel. Total 14 people attended the meeting out which three were guests.

Oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by the President of the Professional Toastmasters, TM Adnan. TM Mujeeb was the Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Liaquat was the Table Topics Master and TM Zafar was the General Evaluator.

Roles were performed by TM Shahrukh as the Word Master (Word of the day was Albeit); TM Adnan as the Ah-Counter; TM Panjwani as the Timer; TM Perveen as the Grammarian and TM Adnan as the Vote Counter.

The theme of the Table Topics was the “Problems of Pakistan”:



a) TM Haider—How to control the economic situation.

b) TM Zafar—How to improve the condition of the labour.

c) TM Shahrukh—How to improve the Parliament legislation.

d) Roshan Zameer (guest)—Independence of Judiciary.

e) Ashraf (guest)—Heavy debt of Pakistan.

f) TM Adnan Motiwala—How to overcome the law and order situation.

g) TM Adnan—Issue of Governance.

h) TM Parveen—How to improve the education system of Pakistan.

i) TM Panjwani—Eradication of Corruption in Pakistan.

j) Rizwan (guest)—How to stop the devaluation of the Pakistani Rupee.

k) TM Fazal—What measures to be taken for the growth of the Agriculture Sector.

l) TM Mujeeb—Population Explosion

Two prepared speeches were delivered in the second session. The first speech was delivered by TM Hammad who was evaluated by TM Shahrukh. He repeated his Ice Breaker form the Competent Communicator manual. TM Panjewani delivered his project 6 from the Competent Communicator manual and he was evaluated by TM Fazal. The title of his speech was “Communication Skills.”

The winner of the Table Topics session was TM Rafi. And winner of the Prepared Speech session was TM Hammad.

Because we live for the first time!

One of the members rightly said during his speech that, “We do everything in life for the first time. It can even be your first speech. Because we also live for the first time!”

             
The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 31st March, 2013. Total 10 people attended the meeting, out of which one was a guest.

The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by TM Zafar. The Toastmaster of the Evening was TM Mansoor and TM Sattar was the Table Topics Master. In the Evaluation session, TM Khalid was the General Evaluator and TM Shahrukh was the Table Topics Evaluator.

The Roles were performed by Amir (guest) as the Ah-Counter; TM Hammad as the Word-Master (Word of the day was Information); TM Shahrukh as the Timer and TM Zafar as the Grammarian.

The theme for the Table Topics was "Education." Following speakers were assigned the topics:

a)    TM Khalid: Why our institutions are not safe?
b)    TM Zafar: Women Education: liberal and conservative views.[he shared with us the example of the great Meera Bai.]
c)    TM Mujeeb: Medium of our education is still undecided.
d)    TM Hammad: Teacher's Behaviour.
e)    TM Mansoor: Choice between Cambridge and Metric system
f)    TM Shahrukh: Role of a Degree
g)    Amir (guest): What will you do differently if you are asked again to repeat your 8th grade.
h)    TM Aqeel: What will you do with one million dollars.

Two Prepared speeches were delivered. TM Zafar presented his first project, the Ice Breaker,  from the Competent Communicator manual. He was evaluated by TM Sattar. TM Adnan Motiwala also presented his Ice Breaker and he was evaluated by TM Mujeeb.

Formal tone must be used

While presenting his Grammarian report, TM Imran pointed out that the informal words (like, so that etc) should always be avoided and formal tone must be used while quoting someone.

The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 24^th March, 2013. Total nine members attended the meetign. Excluding TM Sohail who joined us later in the evening.

The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by TM Zafar Iqbal. The Big-3 included TM Sattar as the Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Daniyal as the Table Topics Master and TM Liaquat as the General Evaluator. Table Topics Evaluator was TM Zafar Iqbal.

Roles were performed by TM Jaan as the Ah-Counter, TM Panjwani as the Word-master (word of the Day was “Creative”), TM Imran as the Grammarian and TM Aqeel as the Timer.

The Table Topics Master created an imaginary water project company and assigned every speaker a designation in that company. The catch, however, was that every member had to explain himself before and after the training.

Speaker                                Designation

TM Zafar Iqbal                   HR Manager

TM Jaan                             IT Guy

TM Sattar                           CEO

TM Shahrukh                      Jealous Colleague/ Production Manager

TM Aqeel                           Chairman of the Board

TM Imran                           Engineer

Tm  Panjwani                      Finance Manager

TM Liaquat                         Warehouse Incharge

TM Daniyal                         Marketing Manager

TM Sohail                           Manager MIS

Prepared Speech was presented by TM Shahrukh which was evaluated by TM Panjwani. Project eight of the Competent Communicator manual was repeated and the title of the speech was “The Power of the Vote.”

A brilliant book review session was conducted by our learned member, TM Zafar Iqbal. The reviewed book was The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.

Media is making a monkey out of the masses

TM Fahim rightly said that the media is making a monkey out of the masses by feeding them junk when he was asked to speak during the Table Topics sessions.

Combines meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 17^th March, 2012 at the Carlton Hotel. Total twelve members attended the meeting.

Toastmaster’s pledge was observed by TM Shahrukh who was also the Toastmaster of the Meeting. TM Zafar Iqbal was the Presiding Officer. TM Jaan Ali was the Table Topics Master, TM Sajjad was the General Evaluaor and TM Fahim was the Table Topics Evaluator.  

Roles were performed by TM Sattar as the Ah-Counter and Vote counter, TM Naveed as the Word-Master (word of the day was bleak), TM Fazal as the Grammarian and TM Fahim as the Timer.

The theme of the Table Topics session was, the “Media and the Mass Communication.”

   

      SPEAKERS               TOPICS

a)      TM Mujeeb:   Globalisation and Mass Communication

b)      TM Naveed:   Role of Media in Cultural Imperialism

c)       TM Fazal:     Democracy and Media

d)      TM Fahim:     Effects of Media on Masses

e)      TM Adnan Motiwala:    Is the role of media same in dictatorship as in democracy?

f)       TM Sajjad:     The role of PEMRA nowadays.

g)      TM Sattar:     Media’s Rules and Ethics

h)      TM Zfar Iqbal:            Media and Money

i)        TM Shahrukh:           What is the importance of a case being highlighted in media

TM Dniyal presented a prepared speech from the fourth project of the Competent Communication manual. The topic of the speech was “The brain is our universe.” The evaluator of the speech was TM Hanif Sattar.

Combines Meeting of 10th March, 2013

The combined meeting of Professionals Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 10^th March, 2013. The venue of the meeting was Carlton Hotel. Total 15 members participated.

The oath ceremony was observed by our young member, TM Taimur, who handed the lectern to the Presiding officer, TM Adnan. Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Shahrukh, Table Topics Master was TM Adnan, General Evaluator was TM Hanif Sattar and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Khalid.

TM Chandna was the Time. Word-master and Grammarian was TM Liaquat Ali and word of the day was “Conviction”. TM Bakshi was the Vote Counter and the Ah-Counter.

Table topics session was dedicated to the Women’s Day (8^th, March). Prepared speeches were presented by TM Daniyal and TM Sajjad who were evaluated by TM Bakshi and TM Rafi Haider, respectively. A special session was also organized where TM Zafar Iqbal presented the audience with the insight of the fiction novels with specific reference to the major themes of the four major novels. TM Daniyal was the winner of the Prepared Speeches Session.

For Next Meeting:

Toastmasters of the Meeting: TM Shahrukh

Table Topic Master: TM Khalid

Table Topics Evaluator: TM Hanif Sattar

General Evaluator: TM Sajjad

Prepared Speeches: TM Daniyal and TM Taimur

An indigenous resumption…

When the “can do” spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a
lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of
doing things, to bring dreams of reality.

BIG THREE:

TME: TM Maneckji

GE: TM Dr. Avan

TTM: TM Sajjad Zahoor

Attendance: 11 members (including 3 Guests Iqra, Banzala & Rabia)

We had such moments back with the enthusiasm & spirit on September 2,
2012 at our new wonderful venue Carlton Hotel. Meeting was presided
over and  observed the Toastmaster’s pledge  by TM Adnan. Roles were
performed by TM Maneckji as the Toastmaster in various style,  Table
Topic Master was our honourable TM Sajjad Zahoor, conducted a
wonderful table topic session. He gave topics about market products by
becoming sales person, he gave each member a product to sell it, all
the guests & members enjoyed and learnt how to sell products at their
level best. TM Nadeem Chandna was the table topic evaluator, TM
Manekji was grammarian, TM Tahir was the timer, TM Danyal was the word
master the word of the day was enjoyment and TM Khalid was the Ah
Counter.

Our Guest TM Iqra won the table topic award & TM Dr. Avan  was the runner up.

 
 
Special thanks to TM Sajjad Zahoor & TM Bukhshi for rejoining our club
meetings and TM Fahim for giving us a wonderful new grand venue.

TM Nadeem Chandana and TM Khalid are motivating us by attending
meetings and sharing their various styles of public speaking.

We ended up with the aim of making our club more successful

Toastmasters help us to develop:

- Thinking on your feet (table topics and evaluations)
- Listening skills (evaluation, table topics, grammarian, etc.)
- Time management (speaker, toastmaster, general evaluator, timer)
- Effective expression of ways for someone to improve (evaluator and
general evaluator) especially helpful if you are required to give
performance evaluations
- Speaking skills in both formal and informal settings

It is such a good news that we have restarted meeting regularly at the
new venue Carlton Hotel. It seems that members are enjoying new venue
as we have already successfully held two meetings. Our next meeting
will take place on Sunday  September 9th, 2012 between 3.30 pm to 5.30
pm at Carlton Hotel which is located near Khayaban-e-Itihad, off
Korangi Road. Kindly confirm your participation and if you want to
carryout any roles. Meeting.

Hi-tea charges are Rs. 350/-  per person.

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Learn from the mistakes!

You can only learn from a mistake after you admit you’ve made it. As soon as you start blaming other people (or the universe itself) you distance yourself from any possible lesson. But if you courageously stand up and honestly say “This is my mistake and I am responsible” the possibilities for learning will move towards you. Admission of a mistake, even if only privately to yourself, makes learning possible by moving the focus away from blame assignment and towards understanding. Wise people admit their mistakes easily. They know progress accelerates when they do.

The last meeting of the Professional’s Toastmasters Club was on 15th March, 2012. The venue of the meeting was T2F (The Second Floor).

Toastmaster was TM Fahim and Topicmaster was TM Yasir. General Evaluator was TM Jummani and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Fahim.

The team of the General Evaluator included TM Adnan as the Timer and the Vote Counter, TM Fahim the Grammarian, TM Adnan as the Ah-Counter.

Topics assigned by Topicmaster Yasir were amazing.

Important observations were made and shared in the Evaluation session.

Winner of the Best Table Topics Award was TM Yasir and the runner up TM Adnan.

We ended up with the aim of making change to create innovative thinking 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

The next meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club is on Thursday 22nd of March 2012 at 7:00. to 9:00 at the unique venue T2F.

FEE BREAKUP

PTC Fee for 6 members Rs. 450/- each member

PTC Fee for 8 members Rs. 350/- each member

PTC Fee for 12 members Rs. 200/- each member

Your maximum participation can make the difference

New venue 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