Passing The Parcel
A leader is best when people
barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:
we did it ourselves. Think about it, I will come back on it in the last
session.
Explaining the Theme of the
meeting!
“Success and failure are a part
and parcel of everyday work life’s highs and lows. But the memories of working
with an inspirational team and that will never go”. Also, as SAA TM Nikita
Binnai said “The beauty of all the first ever experiences is that you will
never get to feel the same next since the second time you will have
pre-assumptions attached😊
If you have attended the
ceremony, today new sets of leaders have taken over. The past year had many ups
and down due to pandemic, but we still kept going and today its not just the
first meeting of the year 2021 but a new team behind this meeting. It takes lot
of planning and effort for every single Toastmasters meeting and hopefully this
goes on forever. Everybody out here teaches something important. I have learned
a lot which really helps me to become a better person. Thank you.
Good evening fellow
toastmasters and my dear guests.
I welcome you all to this 644th
Meeting of Infosys Pune Toastmasters Club with our theme for today being “Passing
The Parcel”. Is it mandatory to finish a race?
I don't have any trouble with
not finishing; the main thing is to get started and have those first layers or
foundations built. Then you keep passing the baton down to the next generation,
and they build another bridge. I love promoting the new ones and mentoring
them. But I also get mentored by them, even if they don't realize it. Yes,
as theme is about “Let us pass the parcel of responsibilities and take a step
towards creating new leader.
Let me now quickly explain the
structure of a Toastmasters meeting:
The structure of a Toastmasters
meeting is designed in such a way that the Toastmasters helps us in improving
our communication and leadership skills and we in turn help each other to
further improve upon it. Our meeting consists of three sections:
1.Prepared speech sections,
wherein the club members deliver their prepared speeches or rather attempt
projects from their pathway manuals.
2.Then, we have a very
interesting and thought-provoking Table Topics Session (a kind of Impromptu
Speaking Session) in which a topic would be given to you by our Table Topics
Master and all you have to do is come up and speak on it spontaneously. This is
a session especially for our esteemed guests to help them experience the art of
public speaking. Also, you stand a chance of winning the Best Table Topic
Speaker award complemented with our 100 Rs Amazon voucher.
3.Any lastly, we have our
evaluation session wherein the Individual Evaluators evaluate the prepared
speakers and the General Evaluator with his TAG team evaluates the entire
meeting in general.
Now, let me introduce someone,
who would be evaluating every little thing of the meeting. Our General
Evaluator for today someone I also look up to and carefully hear all of
her talks. Which are full of sayings TM Ashwini. " She always aspired to
be a good speaker. TM gave her an opportunity to work on that and She grabbed
the same.😊. A huge round of applause for TM Ashwini.
TM Ashwini is not alone; she has
her three helping hands along: the TAG team. Where T stands for Timer, A
stands for Ah Counter and G stands for Grammarian.
Our Grammarian for
today, TM Amrut will help us in improving our grammar and vocabulary. Tm Amrut say
“Since childhood, he always aspired to
learn swimming skill and when he got the opportunity to learn this skill few
years back he was so much proud of myself thinking that now I will not drown under water😂
and even can swim with multiple style😁
Join me in welcoming our
Grammarian!!!
Our Ah Counter for today is TM
Sanjukta. she would be noting any overused words or filler sounds, crutch by
anyone who speaks during the meeting.
I asked her question “You aspired
to do something and one fine day you got that opportuinty. What was it like,
doing something which you never did before”?
“I have aspired to be a brilliant
(not just good) orator ever since I was little. But I used to be too shy and
hesitant to speak up even in front of a group of more than 3 people. But now,
since joining toastmasters, I am speaking up in every meeting in front of a
group of almost 15-20.”
She is ““Someone working hard
for future aspirations” Join me in welcoming our Ah Counter, TM Sanjukta
Final member of TAG
team, our Timer, TM Anang (IPTMC)would be monitoring the time for
each meeting segment and each speaker.
He always wanted to organise an
event in my college. His dream came true in 2nd year when we organised a
cultural event called aikya. It was a wonderful experience working with people
from different states and getting familiar with their customs and art forms.
This event was a beautiful representation of unity among diversity that our
country is always known for.
Now it’s time to start with
the first section of today’s meeting that is the today activity
Section.
Listener and
Talker Activity
The talker’s job is to
describe what he or she wants from a vacation without specifying a destination.
The listener’s job is to listen attentively to what is being said (and what is
not being said) and to demonstrate their listening through their behavior. After
a few minutes of active listening, the listener should summarize the three or
main criteria the talker is considering when it comes to enjoying their
vacation. Finally, the listener should try to sell the talker on a destination
for their vacation.
Memory Test Activity
I am going to read a list of words to test your memory. Listen
carefully, and you cannot write down any of the words. Tell them you will test
them later to see how many of the words they can remember.
Repeat each of the following words slowly, pausing briefly
between each word:
dream
sleep
night
mattress
snooze
sheet
nod
tired
night
artichoke
insomnia
blanket
night
alarm
nap
snore
pillow
When you finish reading the list of words, distract your
participants by talking about something else for at least one full minute.
I hope you guys enjoyed this communication activities.
Now it’s time to start with the second section of today’s meeting that is TTM Section. To conduct it let me invite.........
And now it’s time to
those who have been meticulously scrutinizing the meeting, our TAG team and General Evaluator to take over.
……
Before Signing off: I
would like to say something:
A leader is best when
people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they
will say: we did it ourselves. If your actions inspire others to dream
more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. I am sure,
we somewhere around inspire other, even we don’t know.
I would
like to thank education team to come up with such a theme.
Please help me in welcoming our
very new Secretary: Ashwini.
A huge round of applause
for General Evaluator of the day,
Accept
it and you will enjoy it…make it your own.. Find out things that are in your
control and things that are not.. Learn from each and every experience, own
it.. Life is yours and you are Life.
Dear
Toasties,
Here
is the WOD and IOD for today's meeting. Do make it a point to positively use it
and make it a part of your vocabulary. 😊
To relinquish: to give up (as a position of authority) formally
Eg:the retiring CEO relinquished his position to the company's vice president with very mixed feelings
Idiom of the day:
pass the buck:to blame someone or make them responsible for a problem that you should deal with
Eg:She's always trying to pass the buck and I'm sick of it!
Role takers for 6 Jan 2021
MEETING 644
Virtual meeting
🎤 Theme: Passing The Parcel
💂🏻♂️ SAA - TM Nikita B
⏸️ Ah-Counter - TM Sanjukta
⏰ Timer - TM Anang
📰 Grammarian - TM Amrut
🎭 Table Topics Master - TM Nikita J
👑 TMoD -TM Nageshwar
👨🏻⚖️ General Evaluator - TM Ashwini
