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Since the start of the year, we have had 3 new members join our club! Remember
to introduce yourself to them and make them welcome when you see them.
In this issue
Meet our new
members
1
Editorial 1
1st meeting of 2014 2
Chinese New Year
Meeting
2-3
Member
Achievements
3
Leadership 4
Going Beyond Our
Club
5
Evaluation Contest 6
Roll of Honour 7
Announcements 7
Important Dates 7
Meet Our
Toastmaster
Valentine’s couple
8
Meet Our New Members
Canning Vale
Toastmasters J a n u a r y & F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 4 V o l u m e 3 , I s s u e 3
Satish
Gummadavelli
Rahman
Khandker
To our new members :
Welcome to Canning Vale Toastmasters and congratulations on
taking that first step in your Toastmasters journey. Every member is
willing to help you at any time and we will all support you with your
progress towards your goals.
To make the most of your membership, be sure to read A
Toastmasters Promise in your Competent Communicator Manual.
We all look forward to watching you become the speaker and leader
you want to be.
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2014. I hope everyone has had a good start to
2014.
This newsletter issue will look back at the Toastmasters events in January and
February. January is the month of NEW YEAR and February is the month of…
Saint Valentine’s! If you continue reading through this issue, you will notice the
Chinese New Year and Saint Valentine’s theme!
I hope you enjoy the newsletter just as much as I enjoy making them. :)
Editorial
Chris Hunt
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During Chinese
New Year, the
colour red is
commonly worn
because it is
believed that red
will scare away evil
spirits and bad
fortune.
First meeting of 2014—Meeting #281
C a n n i n g V a l e T o a s t m a s t e r s
Chinese new year meeting
Toastmasters meeting at...
Sanctuary Waters Park
Welcome to the first meeting for the year!!
Nice park!
Gift from TM
I want one too..
The meeting was
great!
I am your toastmaster for the evening.
Chinese New Year themed meeting.
Looking Red!
And it was also my birthday! :)
New clothes for Chinese New Year! :P
Me in my finest..
Indian outfit
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Prosperity Shared
At our Chinese New Year Meeting, every attendee received a red velvet bag with a few coins
in, which is a Chinese tradition at New Year. This tradition is thought to bring prosperity to
the receiver. This year, I asked our members to keep the coins and return the bag the
following week with a donation for a children’s charity, to share our prosperity. Our
members were generous enough to return about $40 which I donated to a local children’s charity which
helps abused children, Parkerville Children and Youth Care. Here’s their mission
statement which I hope tells you why I chose this charity.
We strive to protect, care and advocate for children, youth and their
families who have experienced trauma from abuse and to provide a
therapeutic environment that will assist their recovery and potential for
growth.
Here’s a link to their website. Please have a look and see for yourself. http://www.parkerville.org.au/
Robyn Richards
Chinese new year meeting cont’d
Other moments from the meetings
Your club officers hard at work
Have you met
baby Kira?
First aid lesson from
Susanty
Member achievements
Rabeya’s
speech
debut at
the CVTM
Maksud being
the “star of the
night”
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C a n n i n g V a l e T o a s t m a s t e r s
Word of the month
Proliferation (noun):
- rapid growth or
increase in numbers
E.g. Proliferation of
Technology
Leadership
There are many good reasons why
Toastmasters teaches both communication
and leadership skills. People with good
communication skills are more likely to be
promoted to leadership positions, and good
leaders need communication skills to be
effective.
Leadership is difficult to define. It’s an
abstract concept that evokes as many
different reactions as there are different
kinds of people. Yet most of us know good
leadership when we see it, and we can often
tell when good leadership is missing by the
way a team or organization struggles
without it. At Toastmasters, our leadership
training program identifies the following
areas as essential to quality, effective
leadership:
Mission. A clear mission helps the leader
to focus the team so that they can ignore
distractions and pay attention to what’s
most important.
Values. When a leader can demonstrate
values that are in sync with the company’s
mission and the team’s goals, everyone
benefits.
Planning and goal-setting. With clear
goals and effective planning, leaders make
their expectations understood and team
members know what to do at all times.
Delegating authority. The job of
leadership is usually too big to handle alone.
By sharing responsibilities with the team, a
leader instils a sense of purpose and
empowerment.
Team building. Establishing trust, playing
to individual strengths, encouraging people
to work together—all are important aspects of
team building.
Giving feedback. Constructive, concise and
timely feedback is essential to each team
member’s success, and to the success of the
team as a whole.
Coaching team members. A good leader
must take on the role of trainer now and
t h e n , p r o v i d i n g e x p e r t a d v i c e ,
encouragement and suggestions for
improvement.
Motivating people. By providing a good
example, learning each team member’s needs
and giving rewards and incentives when
appropriate, a leader can inspire people to
achieve higher levels of performance.
Working for the team. Great leaders
encourage participation, facil itate
communication and provide an environment
where team success is more likely to occur.
Resolving conflict. Conflict between team
members is inevitable, and not always a bad
thing. A leader’s job is to resolve the conflict
in a just and reasonable way so that
productivity and morale do not suffer.
Do you know…
Your Competent Leadership (CL) manual is
your guide to being a competent leader?
Look out for your role in the meeting agenda. If you are
Toastmaster, Table Topic Master, Evaluator or Grammarian,
check out the respective project in your CL manual prior to
the meeting.
Do remember to bring your CL manual along to your
meeting and get any of the fellow toastmasters to evaluate
your performance!
Great leaders
promote
teamwork,
encourage
excellence,
foster growth
and even offer
criticism in a
productive way.
P a g e 5 V o l u m e 3 , I s s u e 3
Joining Toastmasters has helped improve our communication and leadership skills without any doubts. At
Toastmasters, we are able to think differently outside our comfort zone. It pushes us to a higher skill level so
that we can explore our hidden talents. In addition, by completing our Toastmaster educational program, we
are able to know where we stand.
The workshop “Going beyond your club” that I presented on the 18th February was supposed to be
accompanied by PowerPoint slides. However, on some occasion, technology fails when you really need them
most. When I knew the slides are not going to work I made up my mind to do the presentation without the
slides. After all I thought being in Toastmasters for quite some time I should be able to make a presentation
without the help of a projector and slides.
This is one example of how being a Toastmaster has transformed me into a more confident speaker. However,
I believe that any member in the club will have the question “is this all we have? I thought it is going to be
more exciting” after joining for some time. The answer is.. NO! There are plenty of opportunities available
throughout the year, such as Club contests, being a club officer and Toastmasters
Convention. It is your responsibility to explore them so you better be ready for any
eventuality and give yourself a chance to experience your unexplored talents.
If you are looking for opportunities to exploit your hidden talents, or further develop
your leadership and public speaking skills, Toastmasters is the perfect place to achieve
that!
Going beyond our club by Chandana Weerasekera
Leadership opportunity There are several officer positions within each Toastmasters club, both to spread the workload fairly and
to expand the leadership opportunities for club members. In our club, the club committee comprises of
President, Vice President Education (VPE), Vice President Membership (VPM), Vice President Public
Relations (VPPR), Secretary, Treasurer, Sergeant at Arms (SAA).
If your goal is to further develop your leadership skills, now is the time to consider taking on one of the
club officer roles. For more information about these roles, feel free to speak to the respective club
officers.
You can also read more about club officer roles at http://toastmastersd17.org/resources/club-officers/
club-officer-roles/
President—Mike Palmer
VPE—Mark Richards
VPM—Julia Cao
VPPR—Huili Leow
Secretary—Andre Sequeira
Treasurer—John Cecchi
SAA—Carey-Ann Brett
We need you!
Do you need to complete Project 6, 8 or 10 in
your Competent Leadership Manual?
Do you enjoy writing or wanting to improve your
writing skills?
Are you good at organising?
Do you want to learn how to produce newsletter?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the questions,
please do not hesitate to contact Huili! We would
love to help you achieve your goal as well as
having you contributing to the Positive
Promotion Premiership (PPP). (You will
receive a lot of information about the PPP soon)
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C a n n i n g V a l e T o a s t m a s t e r s
Club’s Evaluation Contest
Left to right: Angela (Chair), Saliya, Chandana, Vanessa, Edward,
Steve, Mike Palmer.
William the Chief Judge Test Speaker, Josh McNess, from
Rockingham TM Club
Contest results: Third place: Vanessa; Second place: Saliya; First place: Mike Palmer
John Palmer
entertained us
with his story
on how he
taught hippos
to dance
sideways and
zig zagging
Table topics is
like telling a
mini creative
story . So next
time you are
stuck on a table
topics question,
make up your
answer!
Positive Promotion
Premiership (PPP)
Help us win the PPP award at the 2014
convention! Grab the Toastmasters Magazine
with the club stamp from the club and place it at
your surgery/dentist waiting room. Send your
picture evidence to Huili at [email protected].
P a g e 7 V o l u m e 3 , I s s u e 3
International Speech Contest
Tuesday 4th March
This is your chance to compete in the contest that could see you go on to represent our District at
the semi finals held at the Toastmasters International Convention in Kuala Lumpur in
August.
Power Up on the Peninsula
Weekend May 23-25
District 17 Convention—Registration now opens, hurry in and book your place today at:
http://www.poweruponthepeninsula.com/
Important Dates
Roll of Honour
CC—Frith Veitch
CC—Saliya Ranasinghe
Announcements!
Power Up On The
Peninsula
District 17 Convention
May 23-25th 2014
Registration is NOW OPEN for the May
District Convention. Book your place NOW
for the early bird discount rate before 1st
February 2014.
Note: Canning Vale will be subsidising all
member’s tickets to this outstanding event.
For more information, visit the website:
http://www.poweruponthepeninsula.com/
We need your help!
Our club is hosting the District 17 convention in
May and we need your skills to help make this a
success. Contact Emma for information about the
roles available.
What do you like best about Canning Vale
Toastmasters?
We believe our lovely, kind & warmhearted members
are the treasure of the club. We have been making
friends with many great people who help us a lot on
both our language and life.
What do you do for a living?
Eric is a software engineer and Julia is an export
documentation clerk.
Has Toastmasters helped you in your job and
if so, how?
Definitely. We were scared to speak at the beginning,
but now we have good relationship with colleagues
and can easily make phone calls which was deemed a
very difficult task in the past. Of course, we tried very
hard to learn and to improve, and Toastmasters
provided us with a great arena.
What’s next for you in Toastmasters?
We would like to be a confident speaker and will keep
working towards this goal.
Julia & Eric
Why did you join Toastmasters?
As new immigrants, our English was pretty
bad at that time we arrived in Australia 15
months ago. We were eagerly looking for an
opportunity to practice language and one
of our friends happened to be a member of a
Toastmasters club. She suggested to us to have
a try. In order to improve our English
and merge into the local society. We searched
online for the closest club and joined CVTM.
How long have you been members?
14 months.
We meet every Tuesday 6.30pm
Canning Vale College Library
Dumbarton Road
Phone: 0403 621 899 (Mike)
Phone: 0407 595 161 (Mark)
E-mail: [email protected]
Canning Vale Toastmasters
Meet Our Toastmaster Valentine’s couple...
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That concludes the Jan/Feb newsletter issue.
I hope you enjoyed the first two months of
2014. Time passes so fast; There are only 10
more months to the year. What will you
achieve in these months?
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