Journey towards 500th meeting
#This is a 1 hour meeting, where TMOD has got to talk a little . and its a 1 prepared speaker only and TTM , Evaluation segment
<I am the president and TMOD>
Thank you SAA for setting the right tone of the meeting. I feel the goose bumps and super excited.
Welcome fellow club members, Toast masters of other clubs.
Welcome to meeting number #487
Today’s meeting is special for two different reasons.
One – We have the room full despite the long weekend ahead
Two – Today I am playing a dual role – President and MC
Let me leverage the 5 mins of president and 5 mins of Master of ceremony and take you through the journey of toast masters and our Journey to 500th meeting
Before we get engrossed into our meeting let me happily set the meeting #487 to order.
Well ; A Journey , Journey to 500th meeting .
As soon as you hear the word journey what comes to your mind?
<Let audience engage>
To me journey and nature are synonymous .
Both gives you various number of sights to see, feel and enjoy
With nature, my mind frames a picture filled with animals.
Lets take a cow and bison for example. Hope you should have seen both of them in many occasions
There is a beautiful analogy about cow and bison.
Both are animals – almost from the same family, yet they are different by their approaches on how do they weather the storm. Cows have been observed to move away from the storm , along the direction of the wind. When the storm eventually catches up , cows end up bearing the brunt of the storm , struggle and continue to be under the weather.
Whereas Bison are observed to move towards the storm, they move into the wind which means when the storm catches up, they are passing through it and end up getting out quicker .
So what do we infer from this.
Basically there are two mindsets .
**One is Cow mindset – avoid the bad, moving away from the bad, not ready to face it, not taking ownership**
**The other is Bison mindset – understanding the bad, acknowledging the bad, approach the with a sheer belief that there is light at the end of the tunnel**
Every toast master embodies the Bison mindset , we are aware that we have stage fear, we get butterflies on stage; yet we get on to stage and learn the techniques to mange better and yes we pass through the stage fear gradually
Not only Toast masters, this applies to all successful organization flourishing in the world.
All successful people of today were once struggling , yet they keep pushing the needle and make it
That’s how Toast master community has also weathered a lot of storms and its now 101 years old , spreading across 144 countries with over more than 16000 clubs. In that big community our vTalk is a small club yet its also equally strong to stand tall navigating any number of uncertainties with unwavering bison mindset , relentlessly yielding a lot great speakers and leaders.
To give a brief – our vTalk is now marching towards its 14th anniversary in few months and
and and and <Audience fill the gap by telling 500th meeting>
yeah 500th meeting.
Before getting into the various sights of our journey to 500th meeting
**Let us get to know our guests .**
**We have a guest from <TMC>. Give them a warm welcome and pass on the stage to them to hear a few words about them and their journey in toast masters**
< engaging with the guests> <Thank them>
#Above are all part of my presidential address
For the benefit of the guests and everyone, let me outline how every toast master meeting look like
It has 3 segments
No:1 The prepared speeches (Loaded with Powerful speeches)
No:2 TTM (Loaded with Spontaneous speeches)
No:3 Evaluation (Loaded with Constructive feed backs)
For evaluation we have
<GE introduction goes here>
<GE comes on stage introduces his role * TAG team, TAG team details their roles>
Thank You GE and TAG team players for giving crystal clear view of your roles
As everyone here embodies that courageous , strong and unstoppable Bison mindset, lets cheer them by shouting out their name three times with a thunderous clap as they get on to the stage
In this journey the first sight we are going to have is the Hindsight.
What happened at the very first meeting, how was it , what were the emotions filling up the first vTalk meeting.
<One of our chartered members mentioned that there was a mild tremor during the meeting>
Before we move on to the next sight we have a speaker today
<Speaker introduction goes here>
Speaker is evaluated by a toast master <Evaluator introduction goes here>
I welcome on stage <Name of Evaluator 1> to read out the objectives of the speech
<Evaluator reads the objectives>
Thank You <Name of Evaluator 1>
I welcome on stage our first speaker
< Name of Speaker 1> <Topic> <Topic>< Name of Speaker 1>
<Speaker 1 delivers the speech>
<Few thoughts on the speakers view and words of appreciation goes here>
Now its time for the second segment and the next sight
The next sight of our journey is about Insights.
To gain those insights , here comes Table topic master to trigger your impromptu, effective and spontaneous communication.
We have our Table topic master <TTM intro goes here >
<Table topic master elucidates the role and conducts Table topics>
Thank you Table topics master <name> for those insightful questions
Finally we are into the third segment – Evaluation.
“Be it any milestone — when it’s around the corner, our quality steps up.”
Can everyone of you point out one aspect of our meeting where we have to rise up our quality.
For me its “Encouraging the people with a cheerful welcome while they get on to the stage”
Thanks a lot for your invaluable pointers. let us inculcate it as we progress towards a great milestone our #500th meeting
Here comes our GE AND TAG TEAM to evaluate the #487 meeting
I welcome back the General Evaluator to the dais to evaluate the entire meeting.
** General Evaluator and TAG team reports their observation, shares constructive feedback and areas of improvement **
Thank you General Evaluator and TAG team
**Good leaders act with foresight and so did You all**
**With these foresight to improve , lets plan and inculcate at every meeting that’s ahead of us**
**With that I am taking the stage back as the president.**
**Journey to the 500th involved hindsight, insights and foresight**
<Few announcements , polls ,winner declaration and the meeting is adjourned>