Presidential_address_498
## Bring meeting to order
## Welcome and greet guests . Get them to speak few words about Toast masters
## A motivational talk
## Correlate it with Toast masters and repeat the history of TM and vTalk club
## Introduce TMOD
Good evening everyone. A lot of new Guests , our fellow toast masters .
Let me quickly bring our meeting number 498 to order
Well!
Its a great evening
A tea time of course !
We all have gathered to learn , serve and grow together during this Tea Time
Few evenings back my Mom served me a Tea that was so good that gave me a lot of vim and vigour even by the Friday evening
So the next evenings I asked her – Amma pls offer me that good tea!
And yes she offered – of course it was good but it was not giving me that energy as before .
After some time My dad came in and he said “Susee, The day was so much exhaustive and I have a lot more to do . Give me a tea that kicks away my sluggishness! ”
He didn’t stop there, he continued ” The aroma last week was so refreshing and inviting me to take a
<a gesture of deep breath enjoying the strong aroma>
gentle deep breath and that warm aromatic steam really boosted my cells.
They changed my entire evening that day.
so plssss
make that rich tea for me to cheer up…”
Now tell me How would the TEA that my mom prepared with the same tea powder taste like. .
<Let the audience connect>
Yes ! take away here is – when You want something specific to happen ;
Be specific , Be concrete , describe it definitely
Whether you are a manager by profession struggling to get the quality work done from Your team or you are an employee seeking promotion: Give specifics of what all you have done to add value to the Team and Business. Explain how your work is able to improve the productivity. Explain it concretely. If people deny , ask them for concrete examples what is really expected out of you and work towards it.
Being specific and concrete makes you very hard to dismiss.
Now the next challenge is “How to build that concrete YOU ?”
Toast masters is a place to practice that concreteness and act smart with growing confidence.
That concreteness is what made Toast masters to live for more than 100 years . its in its 101 year with more than 16000 clubs across 144 countries . And in that is our vTalk club , that’s as strong as a concrete navigating 13 years and venturing into its 14th year .
Be glad to be part of our vTalk a legacy club that’s getting modernized in its new ventures