Olympics - Minutes of Meeting 29 August 2016

Theme:

Olympics

Word Of The Day: Championship

Opening Remarks: M. F. Akbar Datau, CC

Toasmasters Of The Meeting: TM Abdul Manap Pulungan

General Evaluator:  TM Dinda Mayaranie

GE TEAM:

Grammarian: TM Pratomo Derip

Timer: TM Citra Williams

Ah/Wod Counter: TM Sri Mirani

Ballot Counter:  TM Ramasdin Saragih

Prepared Speech Session

1. Basic Manual # 1: The Ice breaker

Speaker: TM Kevin Henanta

Speech Title: "The courage towards a big leadership?”

TM Kevin opened his speech by saying that everyone should have enough courage to go through the struggles they will face to be a leader. He had his fears upon entering his first speech competition, but was consoled by his father’s message that it’s not simply about winning but about improving his quality of self through the tearing down fears and having courage. Courage is a state of mind or action to face a danger or obstruction to reach success. Courage happens in a small scope and a big scope. Small scope of courage like asking some questions or expressing opinions can create big impact for ourselves. Big scope of courage like participating in a tough competition pushes us to better our quality of selves. TM Kevin concluded that good quality of self can help us achieve success, so be brave and don’t let fear tear you down.

Evaluated By: Rivai Budihartono, CC

2. Basic Manual # 5: Your Body Speaks

Speaker: TM Magdalena Sihotang

Speech Title: "The importance of being focused”

TM Lena told a story of her journey to the mall to buy a gift for her brother. She was distracted by the other shops and when she found a gift for her brother, she already ran out of money and time, and ended up not being able to buy the gift. She regretted spending her money shopping on the other things that she didn’t need. She higlighted that being not focused made her lose resource, money, time and energy, and ended up not achieving her goal. She advised the audience to train to be a focused person, through making a priority list and keeping out distraction. She implemented it by working without playing with her phone or the internet and it drastically improved her productivity. TM Lena concluded saying controlling yourself is not easy but keeping focus is important since staying focused on important things would help you capture the moment and your goals perfectly.

Evaluated By: Richie Jimmy Walia, ACS, ALB

3. Basic Manual # 9: Persuade with Power

Speaker: TM Maria Yulianti Sinaga

Speech Title: "Driving to destination”

TM Maria was learning driving with her husband. She struggled and over time she became afraid to drive and started making excuses and justifications to not drive, causing her to not have any progress. She equates her journey learning driving to giving speeches. It’s been a long time since her last speech and she feels like she’s forgotten how to deliver a speech and that became a barrier from once again stepping on the stage. She highlighted that Toastmasters is a good place for learning as it provides friendly environment, help, and constructive feedback. By focusing and practicing, and not making excuses from delivering speeches and doing projects, she reminded the audience to pursue our goals of entering Toastmasters. TM Maria concluded with saying intention is not enough, action is what takes us to our destination.

Evaluated By: Fia Mahanani, CC

Edu Speech Session

Speaker: Harlina Indra, DTM

Speech Title: “Mentoring”

Mentors give knowledge and insight, acts as confidant and helps their mentee’s success in Toastmaster. Many people think they’re not experienced enough to be mentors, but the mentor’s responsibility is only to ease the transition of new members, to introduce them to the customs and standards, encourages them to participate more and improve their skills and to inspires confidence. For the mentors, they can benefit from learning from their mentees, re learning the basic manuals, reamining productive, performs an altruistic act, be encouraged by watching their mentees grow and gain recognition from their mentees. Mentors simply need to be available, supportive, patient and sensitive in dealing with different mentees and their differing skills and personality. As a mentor, you should sit with new member, introduce them to JTC, who to contact, and help with their Ice Breaker speech, introduce other resources to help their learning, explain responsibilties and projects, and give them positive feedback. Mentors should also invite the mentee to other events, share the benefits they’re experienced, and encourage the mentee to take on more responsibility and roles. TM Harlina concluded saying mentors and mentees can create a friendship for life and encourages the audience to be a mentor and have fun with mentorship.

Table Topic Session

The table topic session was led by TM Jannie Fahdiana.

Hall of Fame

Congratulations to the winners:

Best Speaker: TM Kevin Henanta

Best Table Topics Speaker : TM Ferry Kurniawan

Best Evaluator: Fia Mahanani, CC

Special Announcements

Club Treasurer, TM Magdalena Sihotang, reminds all the JTC member to pay their renewal fee for October ‘16 to March ’17 before 18 September 2016. Please contact TM Lena for details on how you can pay for your renewal.

We would like to thank all the members and guests who have come. We would also like to give special appreciation and gratitude to the TOM And GE, who have successfully prepare the meeting and assign meeting roles to members and also to all the speakers and role takers for helping to run the meeting smoothly.

Made By:

TM Cindy Gamal

Club Secretary

Jakarta Toastmasters Club 2016-2017