Professional Toastmaters Club meeting on Thursday, October 28th, 2010.

Our meeting was a success. The attendance was short so eash present member had to perform multiple roles. The effective participation and dedicated attitude played an important role in our meeting's success.

Members responsible for conducting the meeting and sessions were TM Mehmood as the Toastmaster of the Meeting/Evening, TM Shahrukh as the Table Topic Master, TM Fahim as the General Evaluator and the Table Topic Evaluator was TM Haris.

Theme of the meeting was our civic sense and the word of the day was grift.

Multiple roles were played by the members. TM Haris as the Timer and the Vote Counter, TM Shahrukh as the the Word Master and the AH Counter, and TM Fahim was the Grammarian.

The prepared speeches were delivered by TM Sajjad and TM Fahim. Both presented the first project of the same advance manual: The Entertaining Speaker. TM Sajjad was evaluated by TM Fahim and TM Shahrukh evaluated TM Farid.

Winner of the Table Topic Session was TM Farid and for Prepared Speeches, TM Sajjad took the gold.

TM Haris and TM Shahrukh were presented with certificates for participating in the workshop on 'Enhancing Communication Skills'. It was held on July 7, 2010 and organised by the 'Institute of Clinical Psychology', in collaboration with the 'Professional Toastmasters Club'.

An Evening with Destiny

Feeling down or had a bad day at work, attending meeting at Professional Toastmasters Club may be the answer to your worries. That was what we experienced yesterday at the weekly meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club. The meeting which was attended by 8 people of which 1 was a guest, experienced a new energy and re invigoration. Indeed we were short of numbers but there was no dearth of zeal. TM Izhar conducted the programme will zeal and die-hard spirit motivating participants with forceful style. TM Mahmood as Table Topics Master challenged the impromptu speakers with interesting topics.

The main feature of the meeting was prepared speech session. TM Shahrukh, while delivering his speech from Advanced Manual, 'inter-personal communication' highlighted the key success factors in effective negotiation. He was evaluated by TM Harris. TM Sameer's speech from advanced manual, 'story telling' captivated the audience and highlighted the importance of proper prior planning before undertaking a journey. His speech was evaluated by TM Farid.

The evaluation session was conducted by TM Sameer. Table topics were evaluated by TM Farid. Interestingly TM Sameer was voted as the best table topics speaker and best prepared speaker.

What a wonderful evening: We all enjoyed our professions

After a long time, we had an evening which we all will remember. Professional Toastmasters club members who attended the meeting on September 23, 2010, went away with nice memories, which will last for at least one week before we meet again next Thursday. Altogether 10 people attended the meeting. Out of them 9 were members and 1 was a guest.

The meeting was conducted in his signature style by TM Iqbal Bakhshi as Toastmaster of the evening.

The table topics session was indeed the key feature of the evening. With TM Sajjad Zahoor assigning each of us a profession and inviting us to get challenged into our new career, every speaker shared something which is going to be unforgettable for the listeners. For those who were not there here is a glimpse what they have missed out.



But that was not just the only piece of action during the evening. TM Maneckji entertained us with humorous speech as hence became the latest member who completed all the projects in basic manual. TM Maneckji, now we are more knowledgeable of our animal instincts and areas for improvement :)

TM Fareed as general evaluator gave a detailed run down on the event and where can we improve upon as a team. TM Harris as table topics evaluator reviewed the table topic speeches.

TM Dr. Avan was voted as the best Table Topics Speaker. The members also pleasantly found out that there are efforts going on to establish two more toastmasters clubs in the city. One such club is being established for the blind students and the other one is expected to be launched by a reputable school in the city. We are proud to learn that members of Professional Toastmasters Club are part of both these initiatives.

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

We had yet another eventful evening during Professional Toastmasters Club meeting on Thursday June 24th. The meeting was conducted by TM Izhar and was presided over by TM Sajjad Zahoor. Table topics session was conducted by TM Hanif Sattar with a little bit of an interesting twist!

TM Junaid delivered his ice-breaker.

He was evaluated by TM Chang.

TM Fahim delivered speech on 'Concluding Your Speech' from 'Better Speaker Series'



TM Chang and TM Catherina delivered Farewell speeches




TM Chang was voted as the best table topics speaker. Nominations for next term's executive committee were also announced during the meeting.