Our next MEF meeting “Theme” is ….

Think

BIG!!!

 

French writer and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France once said, “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.”

You’re welcome to be part of this sharing session, we extended this invitation to public as well. 

Where – Cempaka Room, Safira Club

When – 8.00pm on 5 August 2010

If you have any enquiries, please contact

Celine 012-4668589 celine_kerwoon@yahoo.com
Pei Jun 012-4929443 sugus_cheah@hotmail.com

Division H Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) Part I training

What is the benefits of Toastmasters Leadership Institute ?

Toastmasters Leadership Instituteis a training seminar where Toastmasters from across the district from different club come together to network, share ideas, and inspires. The newly-elected club officers will receive training on how to best serve their clubs. This is also a training where Toastmaster can expand skill sets as a communicator and a leader with additional educational sessions. Leaders are not born, they are made..

Training session with Distinguish Toastmasters Sue Chan

Breakoff session for all the presidents with Area H4 Governor, YS Lee

Training for Vice President of Education

Training for Vice President of Public Relation

Training for Vice President of Membership

TLI does not only train us to become a better leader, it is also a platform for us to extend our network of friendship with other Toastmasters members from different club, for example, BM Big Foot Toastmaster Club.

Group photo of Division H councils and EXCO that have attended TLI

This TLI is indeed a fruitful one. WE gain a lot of knowledge and friendship. WE believe that with this training, we does not only become a better leader in Toastmaster, but also in our lives and workplace.

We are definitely looking forward for the Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) Part II.

Q&A session with DTM Charles Tan Chia Lih

Sometimes we are too worried to give feedback to people who are superior than us in terms of status, knowledge, position etc. How do we overcome the worries?

Recently we have received some questions from members and non members in regard to the importance of "how to become an effective evaluator". We are honoured to have DTM Charles Tan Chia Lih (also the speaker of "Evaluate to Motivate" workshop) to answer the questions below before the workshop takes place on 1st August 2010.

Q1. Can anyone of us give effective feedback or evaluation in our own profession?

Feedback is good only if it can be provided immediately and if it provides suggestions for improvement.

Example of feedback: You should do a better presentation.

Example of effective feedback: If you can insert two graphs, it will make the presentation easier to understand. Besides that, I feel that you neglected the right side of the crowd. If possible, try to cover the whole room.

Thus, for any profession at all, effective feedback is necessary.

Example for Engineer:

Engineering Manager: You must ensure the machine does not breakdown!

With this type of feedback, nothing gets done and the engineer would also be demotivated.

A better one: It is okay to be slow and steady because once you setup the machine properly, it will run smoothly. Besides, this allows you to focus on more value added duties and establish yourself as a specialist.

This cannot happen overnight but if you know the techniques you may start to practice and soon, everyone can provide effective evaluations.

Q2. If we are not born naturally as an effective evaluator. Can this skill be taught or trained?

Many say, leaders are born but the truth is, majority of leaders are made. An effective evaluator is the one who is able to effectively provide positive and pro-active feedback and these can only be obtained through constant practice. There are some managers whom you like very much and there are some who appear to be always picking on you for all the faults but has never tried to help out. These habits can change if only they learn that effective evaluation is much more useful than just common fault finding feedback.

Q3. Can you please share with us how you benefits of becoming an effective evaluator in your daily life?

If you are an effective evaluator, you would find that in your work, everything and everyone seems to like to be part of your team. Somehow, any project given to you will be successful versus another manager who simply is unable to give effective evaluation / feedback. As a husband, you will find that your wife would also understand you more!

Q4. Sometimes we are too worried to give feedback to people who are superior than us in terms of status, knowledge, position etc. How do we overcome the worries?

The truth is, IF we are able to listen well and provide feedback with tangible evidence to our superiors, they would treat us as their equal and would want to share with us even more.

When I just joined my organization, I listened to my Vice President's press conference. It was riddled with too many 'You know'. I wrote an email to him and said, 'Dear XXX, I must say that in terms of knowledge about the industry, you are way ahead than many. However, there were just too many 'you know' that made your presentation lose some of its effectiveness. '

My VP listened to the video himself and called me and said, 'Thank you. I will try to reduce this. If you find this again in future, please remind me. Really appreciate this'.

I was just a new and junior staff giving REAL FEEDBACK to my VP! Many would say, this is suicidal. But let me assure you, if the feedback is done correctly, it enhances not just you but everyone around you.

Q5. How Toastmaster can train us in becoming a better evaluator or effective in giving feedback?

Practice, Practice, Practice. Listen, Listen, Listen. Learn from the best in Toastmasters, improve ourselves and soon, we would see that we are improving a lot. Even colleagues who seldom talk to us now seemed to be one of our good friends in the company!

- End of Q&A session-

More and more valuable sharing from DTM Charles Tan Chia Lih on "Evaluate to Motivate" will be covered in the workshop on 1st August 2010.

To find out more about this workshop, please contact our cheerful and friendly officers who are ready to assist you.

1. Celine 012 - 466 8589 /celine_kerwoon@yahoo.com

2. Pei Jun 012 - 492 9443 /sugus_cheah@hotmail.com

For those who have already signed up the workshop, see you there!

Cheers

' EvaLuate To Motivate' Workshop

Are you asked to give your professional opinions by your managers? If you are a manager, are you requested to give feedback to your staffs which are supposed to motivate them? We have always been asked to give feedback in our daily lives. Your wife may ask for your opinion, your boss would like to know your views.

Are you able to give constructive and observant feedback to your friends, colleagues and bosses? In Toastmasters, we learn how to evaluate constructively. We help speakers improve their next speech and this in turn enables everyone to gain. Speakers are motivated to speak. Evaluators feel good as they are improving the speaker's presentation ability.

Want to know more? This will be an opportunity for you to check it out.

Come join this workshop.

The details are as below:

Workshop: Evaluate to motivate

Date : 1^stAugust 1^st August 2010 ( Sunday )

Time : 9.30am ~ 1pm

Venue : Elite Education Centre ( behind Caltex petrol station in Jalan Raja Uda ) For more information, please follow this link - http://tinyurl.com/mef-evaluation2010

Fees : RM20 (include notes, certificate and refreshment)

Facilitator: DTM Charles Tan Chia Lih

What will you gain from this 3 hours workshop?

1) Why is evaluation key to any Toastmaster Club

2) How do we evaluate?

3) Practical session or evaluations

4) Evaluating evaluations

5) Tip sharing from Division S champion

Facilitator’s Profiles:

He has conducted numerous workshops for Toastmasters in Division S as well as having the responsibility as an Internal Trainer (Effective Presentation Skills) for the organizations that he works for. He was the Division S Governor for term 2008/2009 and led Division S to become a President’s Distinguished Division with support from his amazing team.

How to contact us?

Celine 012-4668589 | Sok Koon 012-4929443

Limited seats only!!!!!!! Get your ticket today to avoid disappointment!! See you there!!!

"Good Leadership starts with good feedback."

Congrats to new achievers in MEF

While there is few more days before this term end, there is another 3 members achieved various educational goals and this goals also help the club in earning DCP points.

The 3 members are :

1. Fion Teoh who completed her Competent Communicator (CC)

2. Bee Ai who completed her Competent Communicator (CC)

3. Kenny Lee who completed his Advance Communicator Bronze (ACB)

Congrats to all 3 new achievers and looking forward on them to do even better in the future !

Office Bearer for 2010~2011

As the new term is coming soon, MEF conducted a an election on 3rd June and had elected a new committee for term 2010~2011 to continue lead and serve the club.

The incoming committee member of MEF are :

President - Celine Choy, CC

VPE - Judy Lim, CC

VPM - Cheah Pei Jun

VPPR - Fion Teoh, CC

Secretary - Saw Mei Yee

Treasurer - Sim Bee Ai

SAA - Felix Tham

Congratulation for new committee. Togather we can lead and serve the club better !

Meeting @ 060510

The meeting on 6th May 2010 was run by TOE, Celine Choy, CC and her team.

On this day there is 2 assignment speakers which is TM Fion who is attempting her CC8 and Kenny Lee, CC, ALB who is presenting his ACB project 5.

Beside of our regular visiting toastmaster, Justin, CC of Seberang Jaya Toastmasters, the meeting was amazed by 2 Area Governors who turn up that night to be evaluators for the assingment speakers. They are Erik Ooi, Area Governor of S8 and Yew Jin, Area Governor of S7.

Of course there is 2 guests came to the meeting too. They are Yan Ting, sister of TM Yan Ying and Ms. Mei Yee who is interested to join Toastmasters.

To make the story short, please take your time for the photo at below :

TM Fion presenting her CC8 "Money Making Machine"

The handsome S7 AG, Yew Jin gave his evaluation on Fion speech.

TM Yan Ying giving her report as a Grammarian.

1 of the guest, Ms Mei Yee presenting her table topic.

The very kind AG of S8 gave his evaluation on Kenny's speech.


TM PeiJun who is also VPPR of the club giving general evaluation.

Judy, CC the Table Topic Evaluator doing her job ...

MEF president, Kenny Lee, CC, ALB & S8 Area Governor, Erik Ooi, ATM-B, CL.