Radin Mas Toastmasters

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Radin Toastmasters, Singapore, offers a proven way to improve your communication and leadership skills through practice and feedback. We are an official chapter of the non-profit Toastmasters International and an interest group of the Radin Mas CC Youth Group.

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Build your ability to motivate and persuade.

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Time-keeping--111th Meeting (28 September, 2009)

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The time-keeper plays an important function during club meetings, as I found out tonight.

As speakers present their prepared speeches, the timer signals with colored-cards to help speakers with tracking and pacing--green, amber then red. A buzzer or bell is also sounded at this time. Upon hearing the ring, the speaker has 30 seconds to wrap up in order to be eligible for voting as best speaker of the evening. The timer then notes the time clocked. Quite a responsibility, you may well imagine (especially during contests)!

The evening was a celebration of sorts--three new members presented their first speeches (Project One-Introducing Yourself) with catchy titles as "The Most Important Thing in My Life (Poh Li)" and "All About Myself (Evangeline)." Jason bagged the best speaker by masterfully weaving his three greatest passions and six hobbies into a self-introduction while challenging the notion, "What's wrong with Jack-of-all-trades?"

Other highlights--

President Paul sold us on "Sales" as being the best career with three 'R's: renumeration, recognition and reward.

Natural humourist Kelvin educated us on how to "Evaluate to Motivate" with a french-flavoured menu. He reminded us that excellent evaluations functioned as a mirror, to amplify the speaker's good points and served to empower and positively impact the speaker to enrich his next speech. Kelvin dished out A-C-E: Attitude, Compassion and Experience.

The evening ended on a high note when Area D1 Governor and Immediate Past President Ann brought in table-topics with a twist involving two pairs- one to describe a picture, the other to draw. With a lot of laughs along the way, this experience served to show that table topics can be creatively stimulating, engaging and fun while stressing the importance of the need to communicate effectively. This surprise brought an enjoyably varied, warm and educational night to a close.

Melanie, VPPR of Radin Mas Toastmasters Club, has experienced Toastmasters' to be great for networking, exploring how to be an effective communicator and building leadership skills. Each meeting draws interesting people with all sorts of hobbies and careers, bragging rights, serious as well as light-hearted laugh-till-your-belly-hurts moments.

Radin Mas Toastmasters holds regular club meetings on the fourth MONDAYS of each month. We warmly welcome all to join us!

CONGRATULATIONS MIKE SEAH ZHI XIONG, CC!

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Radin Mas Toastmasters Club warmly congratulates our speech champion Mike Seah Zhi Xiong, CC for his DOUBLE win at the club and area contest levels this past month. WELL DONE, MIKE!

Mike won the Humourous Speech and Evaluation Contests at both contests. MIKES'S 4 TROPHIES MAKE PERSONAL AND CLUB HISTORY!






With this clean sweep, Mike is poised to represent Radin Mas TMC at the division level! WE KNOW MIKE'LL DO HIS BEST!

The Area D1 Division contest will be held on
Date: 10 Oct, 2009 (Sat)
Time : 1.30 to 5.30 pm
Venue: SMU campus at 60 Stamford road.

During our regular club meetings, Mike has often shared about his humble roots. We do not hear about the hard work and long hours Mike puts into practicing for speeches, but we learn alongside each wonderful idea or flop. His Toastmasters experience of building on skills and techniques for communicating effectively with practice, leveraging on the strategies and skills shared by other distinguished speakers is common around the world. Mike has mastered how to deliver a constructive speech evaluation that affirms the speaker's strengths and encourages the speaker to look at other aspects of livening and polishing for a more effective speech.

As we congratulate Mike on his BIG WINS, we welcome you, any interested readers and fellow toastmasters, to join us for our club meetings, held regularly on the 4th Monday of each month.

Radin Mas TMC grooms winners-- CONGRATULATIONS MIKE!

Our club, the Radin Mas Toastmasters, Singapore, has been developing public speaking and leadership skills through practice and feedback since the year 2000. We are an element of the non-profit Toastmasters International District 80, Division D, Area D1 clubs and our official club number is 4436.
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