BBSR Toastmasters Meeting #2, August 30

Speaker: Preeti Pooja

Project : #1

Title: Preeti's Diaries

No, we didn’t lay low or pale into insignificance after our Big Debut! “The Initiative”, was taken in the first meet (August 16th) itself and the second meet on August 30th clearly showcased our efforts, and determination in bringing the services of Toastmasters International to the consciousness of the local denizens. In other words, our first sequel aptly lived up to its theme of the day, “The Next Step”.

“The Next Step”, was to attract more members and not exactly in terms of the ‘number’ of members but ensuring that Bhubaneswar Toastmasters reaches to a wide variety of audience, eventually giving us the ‘diversity’, which forms the basis for a healthy functioning of a Toastmasters club. And indeed, we did manage to take a major lead in achieving the coveted ‘diversity quotient’ that we had been targeting for a while now. Although the quantity remains a major factor of concern but the ‘quality’, boy! that gave us the necessary high to double our efforts and live up to the standards and the buzz generated in the launch session on August 16th.

This time we had Toastmasters from Infosys, Bhubaneswar, without whom achieving the “next step”, wouldn’t have been possible for us. We owe our sincere gratitude to Toastmasters Rajib, Sanjay, Debi Prasanna, and Atul, who literally conducted the session in the spirit of a true Toastmaster, and made way for a long time association of the two Toastmasters Clubs, here in Bhubaneswar. We had three prepared speeches this time; two icebreakers delivered by our core team members, Toastmaster Preeti, and Toastmaster Deepika, and one advanced level speech (Project 4) ‘How to Say it’, by Toastmaster Rajib. All the major roles of the session (TMoD, General Evaluator, and Speech Evaluator) were played by Toastmasters from Infosys, whose sheer presence and expertise managed to evoke a positive response from the audience, which itself was a healthy blend of corporate people (Infosys and TCS), students, home makers, and entrepreneurs as well. Inter alia, the session proved to be a learning experience for us; a stepping stone in our quest for eloquence and a major realization of our own leadership potentials.

We hope to keep up the good work and reach out to a much larger audience in the near future!

AGENDA

Theme: "The Next Step”

Speaker 1: TM Preeti Pooja

Evaluator 1: Rajib Deb

Speaker 2: TM Deepika

Evaluator 2: Debi Prasanna Pattnaik

Speaker 3: Rajib Deb

Evaluator 3: TM Atul Vaibhav

Table Topic Master: TM Debashish Patra