312th Meeting: Speaking Towards Self-Branding

In today’s world where technology has become a vital component in our daily lives, from home to work, it is evident more than ever that we (in some sort) consciously or subconsciously promote ourselves online and even offline. And we do that through our posts (written or verbal communication) on our social networking sites, blogs & face-to-face meetings. Thus, it is crucial that we have that working knowledge on how we can effectively speak towards self-branding. Self-Branding is something that we all can benefit from as it leads to self-discovery and living life to its full potential.

Speaking Towards Self-Branding was the theme for the 312^th meeting of Filcom International Toastmasters Club last night, August 12, led by a very energetic and smart Toastmaster of the Evening, Leo, who taught us the 3 main principles in self-branding: build trust, establish your expert status and gather feedback. He cleverly discussed each principle at each part of the meeting.

The first part was the Prepared Speeches wherein TM Malek from Joeng TMC was the first speaker. He is a natural comedian with his speech entitled Up In The Air, followed by a very motivational topic on how to live an authentic life by TM Rachell and capping off his 40^th speech project to be a Distinguished Toastmaster, TM Farooq showed us how to handle crisis management with “Embargo”. In the end, TM Rachell was awarded as the Best Speaker.

In the Table Topics Session, the second part of the meeting, TM Joseph (also the VP-PR) did something for the first time in a club meeting, that was to go LIVE on Facebook. Six, brave volunteers took up the challenge and confidently answered some mind-boggling questions related to the theme (eg. Who are you? No, really) TM Arjay and TM Nadim seemed to have equally convinced the audience and both of them got the award for Best Table Topic Speakers.

Lastly, the third part of the meeting was the Evaluation Session led by TM Arjay. Here, all the speakers were given instantaneous feedback on their speeches by the assigned evaluators, the role players gave their reports and TM Arjay, as the General Evaluator, gave his overall assessment as to how the meeting was conducted and as always, Filcom did not disappoint especially our 5 guests. For this part, the Best Evaluator Award went to TM Viji who evaluated TM Rachell.

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Our next meeting is on August 26, 217 in Tafawok Hall at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Doha Qatar from 6:45 – 9:00 PM.