Anchorvale CC Toastmasters Club, Singapore (Sengkang): Anchorvale TMC Mini-Workshop on 16th August 2014

Thursday, 21 August 2014

Anchorvale TMC Mini-Workshop on 16th August 2014

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I stepped into the room last Saturday expecting a long lecture on achieving speech objectives. I was wrong, well, partially. Anchorvale TMC’s club mentor, Richard Tay, DTM started off by discussing how to craft speeches that bring the most out of it. He also highlighted points that we should look out for when crafting our speeches. He then moved on to discuss how to evaluate speeches. He outlined the roles of an evaluator as well as how he/she should go about doing it. I would say that it was a pleasure listening to Richard going through important aspects in a Toastmasters journey to us CC wannabes. It was definitely educational, engaging and enjoyable.

After the refreshment break, we had a lineup of 8 speakers attempting their Projects 1 to 3. Alice, Yue Qi, Kelvin and Jia Jun, attempted their maiden speech, ‘The Ice Breaker’. Debananda and Ying Leong moved on to their Project 2, ‘Organize Your Speech’. Saleena, Anila and Ken rounded off the prepared speeches segment by delivering their Project 3, ‘Get to the Point’.

The greatest benefit of delivering a speech at this mini-workshop is that we have a panel of esteemed evaluators all commenting on the speeches. Richard Tay, DTM, Sathiya, CC, Roger Yap, CC/CL, Thomas, CC and Zulhafni, ACB separately evaluated 4 different areas (General Feedback, Body Gestures, Vocal Variety, Language Use) of the speech right after it is delivered. You definitely can say that these evaluations are served right out of the oven, piping hot!

Although the timing went well off the original schedule, I can safely say that every single minute there at the mini-workshop was worth my time.

Do drop by for Anchorvale TMC’s 57^th Chapter Meeting on the 23^rd of August. It will definitely be worth your afternoon. Believe me.