367th Meeting: Adaptability

Filcom International TMC
367th Meeting Summary
23rd Nov 2019
“Adaptability”

Filcom's 367th meeting was quite a serendipitous experience. Filcom was showered with a bunch of good news. One more champion came out of Filcom Factory in the form of CJ Rojas, who won the Qatar Talks Championship in Inspirational Category for the year 2019 and made every Filcomite proud. It was already a sought after meeting as Nisha Shivram was going to conduct an Educational Session on the ”Rules of the Game.” The icing on the cake was a privilege to welcome a guest from the USA with a triple DTM Crown.

Sergeant-At-Arms Fouad started Filcom's 367th meeting by reading out the club mission and meeting protocol. Right after, President Dennis formally opened the meeting and warmly greeted the guests. Then the floor was handed over to Qatar Talks 2018 champion, Toastmaster of the Day Joseph Amande, who introduced the theme "Adaptability” and made us realized that along with IQ n EQ, AQ is equally important. He then introduced our Triple DTM guest from USA Daniel Grundtner as the General Evaluator. DTM Daniel introduced the speech evaluators and role players for the night: Manij as the Timer, Michelle as the Ah-Counter, and Diana as the Grammarian.

💼PREPARED SPEECHES

Three Filcomites took over the reins of this segment. Nasser with his impactful speech"The Silent Killer" which implored everyone to take care of their parents. Swetha made everyone experience spirituality in a unique way of Raas Garbho with her speech "The Inner Circle". After Shwetha's dance packed speech Deepti presented her final project on HPL in her Path Persuasive Influence as "Connecting Dots"

💼 EDUCATIONAL SESSION

Nisha Shivram conducted an educational session on the" Rules of the Game". She explained to all the aspiring speakers about crafting a winning speech and the do’s and don't s of an International Speech Contest.

💼TABLE TOPICS

2019 Qatar Talks champion CJ took the baton of the Table Topics Session. Five guests proactively took up the challenge of this impromptu speaking session. Salahuddin, Aala, Viji, Pawan, and JP.

💼EVALUATION

Triple DTM Daniel as the General Evaluator introduced and called the evaluators: Stella, Nadim, and Alaa who gave their evaluations on their assigned speeches. Super-fast Leo gave a rapid evaluation of Table Topics. Thereafter, the role players delivered their reports and Daniel rendered his GE Report.

🏆Best Speaker – Swetha
🏆Best Evaluator – Stella
🏆Best table topics speaker - Viji (guest)

366th Meeting: Emojis

Filcom International TMC
366th Meeting Summary
9th November 2019
“Emojis”

Sergeant-At-Arms Fouad started 🙏 Filcom's 366th meeting by reverberating the club mission and meeting protocol. Right after, President Dennis formally opened 🔨the meeting and warmly greeted 🙏 all the guests. He then gave the floor to Toastmaster of the day Deepti Potnis, who introduced the theme "Emoji" 🎭where she took everyone on a ride in the world of emoji-pedia 😊😀😁😅😂😍😭🤗😋😝😜🙄🧐😱. Deepti introduced the role players for the night: Manij as the Timer⏱⌛, CJ as the Ah-Counter🙊🙉, and Diana as the Grammarian🗣☑.

💼 EDUCATION SESSION

"Joseph is back" was the talk of the town🥳💃🕺and as usual he came, he saw, and he conquered 😇🌈 With his mega entry Joseph presented an educational session on "Evaluate to motivate"👍👌👏👏❤ 🎁

💼 PREPARED SPEECHES

Two enthusiastic Filcomites delivered their respective speech projects.
Stella the Stellar ✨✨💫⭐🌟 made everyone nostalgic by taking us down the memory lane and reminding us of Five types of friends we met in our high school 🏫. Mighty Leo ♌ CEO of A to Z Consulting group conveyed not so very good news☹ in a very good☺ way to his employees 👥👥.

💼 TABLE TOPICS

Shwetha, the Topics Master gave her own twist for this segment. It was this way or that way☺🙃👈👉. Indeed a roller-coaster ride🎡🎢 Leo, Philip, Diana, and Dennis willingly volunteered to 🤹 juggle.

💼 EVALUATION

Stalwart Filcomite, Dr. Farooq took the baton 🥢👩‍🏫 of Evaluation Segment. He introduced and called the evaluators, Nadim, and Dennis who gave their evaluation on their assigned speeches. Shyam also evaluated the Table Topics Segment and Table Topic Speeches. Thereafter, the role players delivered their reports ✍📝 and Dr. Farooq rendered his GE Report📋.

🏆Best Speaker – Stella
🏆Best Table Topics Speaker – Philip
🏆Best Evaluator – Nadim
🏆Best Segment Host – Deepti