My “Ice-breaker” Emcee role …

With much trepidation and excitement, Today, I completed my “first” “external assignment held by our company!!.

My assignment was to be the “Emcee”  for a function held by office.

Although it only lasted for about an hour, the experience learnt was simply “unquantifiable” !!.

Amongst the things I learnt was to “multi-task” – hence, to check the movements of the speakers on the stage and to try to match it with my script, to practice the names of the persons and their respective titles, in future, to make sure that my script has a larger font size so that I would not be squinting my eyes to decipher the words and to quickly inform the audience of any change of events.

All in all, for a First attempt (outside the safe and familiar “Toastmasters” settings), it was an enjoyable experience and I was happy to partake and be able to learn from the experience  !!.

Contributed by Nik Joanita, KPMG KL Toastmasters Club

New Day, New You

Dear Fellow Toastmasters & colleagues,

Thank you for joining us in our 1^st meeting in a New Year at a New Venue yesterday.

It was indeed a very encouraging beginning for the club to have close to 40 of us to start 2011.

 

Honestly, I was a bit overwhelmed with the numbers and the size of the room but it was exciting to know that the club has grown.

I’m pleased to announce and welcome our following 3 newest members to the club:

-          Shirley Cheok (Audit G)

-          Madihah (Audit M)

-          Tham Li Ping (Audit M)

See you in our next meeting. Michelle, our VPM will be in contact soon to assign a mentor to youJ

I’m also very happy to report that our young members have progressed satisfactory and took up the challenge to organize and host the session yesterday.

Thank you (each and every one of you) for all your great effort and I’m sure you will achieve your goal of becoming a competent communicators and a competent leader by end of 2011.

Let’s gear up for KPMG’s coming Table Topics and International Speech contest on 21 February 2011.