Tampines Changkat Toastmasters Club Meeting & EXCO Installation Night - 2nd July 2009

Our Executive Committee 2009-2010 Club Officers' Installation

The President and Members of Tampines Changkat Toastmasters

cordially invites you

to attend the Club Officers' Installation Ceremony

to be held on

Thursday, 2nd July 2009, 7.00 pm to 10.00pm

at the Tampines Changkat Community Club

13, Tampines Street 11, Singapore 529453

We also have an invited speaker, Nick French, ACS, CL, to give us a Special Presentation - "It's Fun to be Funny!"

Do you yearn to be a more entertaining presenter by injecting humour into your speeches? Are you afraid to administer the needle – or perhaps don’t know how to operate the syringe?

Delivering humour is certainly one of the most difficult elements of speech crafting. Find out what it takes to have fun preparing and presenting humour while transforming an ordinary ‘simply static’ speech into one that is ‘stunningly fantastic’. Learn techniques in applying humour and develop a reputation as a confident, competent, and entertaining speaker.

About the Speaker:

Nick French was born and educated in Harare, Zimbabwe

He is qualified with a Master of Science degree in Metallurgy and Material Science and an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa – longer ago than he chooses to remember!

His South African based career has spanned a number of sales and marketing positions in the industrial gas, base and precious metal industries and more recently, petrochemicals. He has extensive sales experience in Europe, South America , the Middle East and of course, the Asia Pacific.

He joined Sasol, a South African Energy company in 1994 and shortly afterwards was transferred to Singapore to establish the regional sales office. He is currently the Asia Pacific regional marketing manager for the chemicals division of Sasol, where his responsibilities require him to work across most Asian cultures.

Nick’s interest in Asian culture and etiquette inspired him to write a book on this subject – Asian Ways , (www.Asian-Ways.com) which was published last year.

He is a past president of the SIM II Toastmasters club and over the last three years has competed in a Division B and District 80 speech contests.

8 Steps to Your Successful Job Hunt!

Tampines Changkat Toastmasters Club is organizing a workshop on 8 Steps to Your Successful Job Hunt.

This workshop aims to help participants enhance their resume-writing and interviewing techniques to help them in their Job Search. This is a particularly useful skill during this period of time, and is always an important skill to have whether you are looking for a new job or not.

Details are as followed:
Date/Time: 4th July 2009 (Saturday), 1.30-5.30pm
Venue: Tampines Changkat Community Center Auditorium

Admission: S$2.00 (PAssion Member)/

S$4.00 (Non PAssion Member)

Some background about our speaker, Lee Jin Hwui:
He is a Human Resource (HR) Professional with more than seven years of experience, comprising various genres, including Policy Formulation, Resourcing, Benefits Administration, Job Analysis, Job Evaluation, Learning Needs Analysis, Curriculum Design, Training Delivery and Training Evaluation. He conducts training on various topics, including Performance Management, Service and Process Improvements, Resume Writing and Interviewing Techniques.

He is a Certified “Big 5” Psychometric Profiling Consultant, Certified People Developer Consultant, Certified FISH! Philosophy Trainer as well as a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW) and a Certified Employment Interview Professional (CEIP). He is also a Certified Practitioner of the popular Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) technique, which he employs regularly during his training and coaching sessions. In addition, he contributes HR-related articles for various publications such as The Straits Times Recruit, JobStreet.com and The Port Officer – the official magazine for the Port Officers’ Union (POU). More details is in the flyer attached.

We truly believe that this workshop will benefit all the participants to build their resume-writing skill and more self-confidence during job interviewing for their ideal job.

Family & friends are welcome to this event.

Feel free to contact me by email or by Mobile at 97989595 for any enquiries or to register your interest.

Thank You.

Presentation Skill...

Today, there was kind of a debrief for the project.
I was a little disappointed in a way when the consultant said that my colleagues performed better as he felt that many times my colleagues could understand and relate better to what he said than I did.

Before I continued, I just want to literate that I feel that my consultant and my colleagues didnt do anything wrong and there wasnt any politics involved. I just like to share my reflections.

After hearing that I was a little surprised, because all the while I felt that my technical knowledge was better. Networking, UNIX, ability to relate to systems, I thought I scored better. As a result, I didnt.

I evaluated myself. Some possibilities:
1) I think too highly of myself due to over-confidence. Which most of the time fell on me when I got too complacent. Which I believe is also one of the factors that contributed to the feedback.
2) Attitude. By means, my joking way of talking. PR-ing, yeah... I may have done a great job. But up to actual working, sometimes I can feel that alot of people feel that I wasnt serious as I was akways happy and laughing.
3) Big picture way of viewing things. Maybe have been thinking to be CEO, so only looks at big picture... Realised that at my level, I should pay more attention to details. Because those are the stuffs that are really important. Points for me to score GOAL. And I feel that this was also one of the factors why I did not manage the Boot Camp project well....
4) Presentation skill. I feel that my colleagues has a better presentation skill than I do. I could see that he didnt understand the whole thing at times, but he could phase it very well. I can only blame myself, why cant I present as well??? I believed besides presentation skill, another factor is also my command of English. Although compared to primary and secondary school days my English had improved alot, it isnt enough.

Conclusion:
Add the following to my 2009 resultion:
- Suppress my complaceancy
- Be more details
- Improve in my English and Public Speaking skill

Just like to re-literate that I feel that my consultant and my colleagues didnt do anything wrong and there was no involvement in politics. Just like to share my reflections.

I will like to take this chance to tell anyone who is reading this posting that even one maybe very capable, but if he doesnt manage to present himself well, he will lose out. I feel that one way to improve is to join Toastmasters Club. If u ask me, join which club to join? I will tell u Tampines Changkat Toastmasters Club! In a nut shell, I believe as well as Toastmasters Club is concern, every clubs will try their best to help their members to improve and excel in Public Speaking skill.

Toastmasters Meeting - 2/10/2008

Today was late...
30min late, reached the club at 8pm...

I think should be the latest Ah Counter ever...
haha...

But today didnt do a good job... Simply cannot concentrate, I was day-dreaming... Worse, I didnt know what I had dreamt about... haha... Luckily, Virginal was around, sitting besides me, helping...

Or else, I really dont know how to tabulate the reports...
haha...

Thank You, Virginal...

I think I only talked for less than 1 minute, & I had 3 counts of ers... sianz... haha...