394th Meeting: Boost Your Confidence

 

  

Filcom International TMC

Meeting Summary

23rd January 2021

Boost Your Confidence

Word of the Day: Energized

Filcom's 394 meeting was held on 23rd January 2021 via Zoom.

The meeting began with the Sergeant-At-Arms Fouad Al-Fares reading out the club mission and meeting protocol. Right after, President Diana May Tangente formally opened the meeting and warmly greeted the guests. Then the virtual floor was handed over to the Toastmaster of the Day, Joseph Amande, DTM who shared the essence of life and energised everyone with his unique way to describe public speaking. He boosted all attendees confidence by explaining the importance of three "C" which are Competence, Courage and Contribution respectively.

He introduced the role players for the night: TM Manij Lakhey as the Timer, TM Yvonne Obaob-Cabang as the Ah-Counter and Hieu Huynh, DTM as Grammarian.

PREPARED SPEECHES:

3 speakers took over the reins of this segment.

1. TM Khadar Hanan– “Educate a child”. He took his audience through a journey of a charity Organisation who worked for a rural community. Their motive was to support children with basic needs and especially education. It became a successful organisation and its journey still continues till date.

2. Leo D. Ortega, DTM -“Take the lead” -How leaders face challenges and overcome them by distributing work among team. It all depends on what kind of leadership you follow. He emphasised on the fact that "Today you follow and tomorrow you lead".

3. TM Diana May Tangente- “To Give and To Take” - She explained about different kind of communication skills and how we use it in our daily life effectively.

TABLE TOPICS SESSION:

Table Topics session was presented by TM Shyam Sundar:

1st Topic by guest Toastmaster Jorge - Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep

2nd Topic by guest Anthony - You dont have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.

3rd Topic by Toastmaster Rinku - If not now when

4th Topic by guest Irene - Dream it and do it

5th Topic by Toastmaster Julia - Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

EVALUATION

TM Rinku Saha was the general evaluator and introduced TM Swetha Raghuraman, TM Fouad Al Faris and Grace Moran, DTM respectively , who provided their evaluations on their assigned speeches. TM Philip Cherian evaluated all Table topic speakers in a very effective manner. The role players also provided their reports.

Best prepared speech Speaker: TM Diana May.

Best prepared speech Evaluator: DTM Grace Moran.

Best Table Topic Speakers: TM Jorge and Guest Irene .

Best Segment Host: Toastmaster Of The Day DTM Joseph Amande.