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THE VOICE OF CTC QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF COROMANDEL TOASTMASTERS CLUB - Vol 1, Issue 7 - Sept-2015

WHERE LEADERS ARE MADE

3075300

Coromandel

Toastmasters Club

Where do we meet?

We meet at Valluvar

Gurukulam School, 220,

GST Road, Tambaram,

Chennai—600045

When do we meet?

Every Saturday from 4.15 PM to 6.15 PM

Directions to the Venue

1. From Tambaram Rail-

way Station and Bus sta-

tion :

Move along the Tambaram

station towards Tamaba-

ram Sanatorium and on

the left side crossing bus

tand, you will find the CTC

meeting venue

2. From Tambaram Santo-

rium Railway Station :

Take the West Tambaram

side and walk along the

GST. You will find the school

on your right.

Club Announcements

Book your speech slots

call Mr. Raman @ 9841068801 to book your speech and role player slots.

A glimpse of the newsletter

Front Liner’s Voices - Page 2 - 5

Mission of Toastmasters Clubs

Voice of the Editorial Team

Voice of the President

Voice of Area governors

Updates Page 6– 9

Voice of DTMs & Well wishers

Voice of Members of CTC Page 10—16

Messages from New members in CTC

Change of guards in Division B Page—17

Club Hall of fames Page 18—21

CTC touches Division contest and Hall of Fame

Special Events & Special meetings

Distinguished Club Program Status Page 22

Take a look at CTC’s performance in Distinguished Club Program

Contact us at: coromandeltoastmastersclub@gmail.com

Our Website: http://coromandeltc.in

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

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MISSION OF TOASTMASTERS CLUBS

HISTORY

How it started?

In 1924, Ralph C. Smedley held the first toastmasters meeting in a basement in YMCA in Santa Ana, Califor-nia.

When it became

“International” ?

Toastmasters became Toastmasters Internation-al after a speaking club in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, ex-pressed interest in joining the organization.

TOASTMASTERS -

TODAY

How big is Toastmas-

ters International to-

day?

As of today there are 3,13,000 memberships in more than 14,650 clubs in 126 countries

Who can join Toastmas-

ters?

Anyone over the age of 18 can join Toastmasters, pro-vided they have the desire to improve their communication and leadership skills.

Toastmasters is also a per-fect platform for networking with people.

Toastmasters International (TMI) is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members to improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills. Through its thousands of member clubs, Toastmasters International offers a program of communication and leadership projects designed to help people learn the arts of speaking, listen-ing, and thinking.

A Toastmasters club adopts a “learn-by-doing” philosophy, wherein each member learns at a pace suitable to his or her developmental needs. The Toastmasters program is divided into two separate tracks, communication and leadership, with members progressing along each track by presenting speeches and taking on roles within their club, district and Toastmasters International itself.

Toastmasters International Mission

We empower individuals to become more effective communicators and leaders.

Coromandel Toastmasters Club is the young Toastmasters community club in Chennai, Tamilnadu. Coromandel Toastmasters Club (CTC) is situated in Tam-baram and helps the aspiring Leaders and Communicators in South Chennai in developing their personal and professional skills. Currently there are 40 members in the club.

Coromandel Toastmasters Club’s Mission

We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth.

To Join Us Contact

Ramkumar- VP Membership @ 98406 54161

About Toastmasters International

About Coromandel Toastmasters Club (CTC)

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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VOICE OF THE EDITORIAL TEAM

Coromandel Toastmasters Club has infused a dose of creativity and ex-

pressiveness into the lives of many professional and aspiring engineers

who reside in vast numbers in the ‘Detroit of India’ thanks to the high den-

sity of automobile companies in the southern part of the city.

Note of Thanks

This is our first news letter in this Toastmaster year. With less technical

background, Editorial team has taken best efforts to release this news let-

ter.

Special thanks to our beloved DTMs Saro Velrajan, Jayan Narayanan,

senior Toastmaster Rajesh Natarajan and Area Directors Santhana Lak-

shmi Ramalingam to sphere their time to write the articles for this news

letter..

Many thanks to members of CTC,

Sundaresan, Subramani, Karu-

nakaran, Raman, Satish G, Jo Srini-

vasan, Harihara subramanian who

spent their time and efforts to contrib-

ute to the articles for this edition.

Many thanks to Velmurugan S, Presi-

dent of CTC for his editorial Role.

Many thanks to Raman K, Vice Presi-

dent—Education of our club for his

Editorial Role.

Special Thanks to Yeshaswi Nagampalli, member of our club for being

part of Editorial team as a proof reader

Many thanks to the Editorial team of the previous edition of the newsletter

for setting the agenda for the newsletter and creating a format to be fol-

lowed to ensure consistency in the subsequent editions.

Happy Reading!

Velmurugan S, CL

Editor

Raman K

Editor

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves— Ray Kroc

Yeshaswi Nagampalli

Proof Reader

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President, Coromandel Toast-

masters Club

Velmurugan is a Chartered

Accountant by profession and

he is working in Future Focus

Infotech P Ltd as Senior Man-

ager Finance.

He is a member of CTC since it

is chartered and he was Intro-

duced by DTM Lalitha Giridhar

to CTC.

He is the winner in club level

Humorous Speech Contest for

the last 2 consecutive years.

Main focus

It is time to focus on the quality

and standards of club meeting

and at the same time by provid-

ing the friendly environment to

the members to improve their

skills.

We will focus to keep our meet-

ings simple, fun & with great

commitment. We will also en-

sure active participation of eve-

ry CTC member. We are sure

this will improve attendance in a

long run.

VOICE OF THE PRESIDENT

First of all, I thank everybody for giving me an opportunity to serve Coro-

mandel Toastmasters Club (CTC) as the President.

After celebrating 100th meeting, CTC is no more a young club. Now this is

a matured club. The standards, maturity level, and quality of our meetings

are growing high meeting on meeting.

The number of members

touches the all-time high 40 in

this month and has been grow-

ing steadily.

This year we have witnessed

the larger participation of our

members in the club contests

which shows the energy level

and interest of members.

In height of it, at the recent Humorous and evaluation contests, 19 contest-

ants were participated. Karunakaran won the 1st place and Velmurugan S

won the 2nd runner up in Humorous speech contest in Area level, Jo

Srinivasan won the 1st runner up in Evaluation contest in the Area level,

and Karunakaran & Jo Srinivasan would be representing our club in Divi-

sion level.

Our member Vinutha Govindhan won the 2nd runner up in division level

and Jo Srinivasan won the 2nd runner up in Area level in ISC, again Vi-

nutha Govindan won the 2nd runner up in Area level in Table Topics.

Triple Crown award for their educational achievements have won by Prat-

ab Simha, Vinutha Govindan and Santhanalakshmi Ramalingam last year.

Coromandel Toastmasters Club has won so many other awards such as

Net club growth award, Phoenix award for reviving a club, exemplary

work award and Founder’s award for Nokia-Siemens Network club.

Our members Santhanalakshmi Ramalingam is appointed as Area Director

of our Area B1 and Vinutha Govindan is appointed as Area Director of

Area D-2 and made us proud.

This is the right time to thank everyone behind this success. We thank the

founders, Mentors, chartered members, senior Toastmasters, well-wishers,

all previous and current Club officers, all District officers and importantly

our members for their effort and continuous support for these achieve-

ments.

We have convened our 100th meeting celebration in a grand manner. We

had convened two Area confluence with Area B2 clubs and Area B1 clubs

in our club venue. Our club has become a Select Distinguished Club by

achieving 5 DCP out of 10 for a year in the first 3 months.

It is also achieved Smedley Award for the year 2015-16 by adding 5

members in the month of August & September’2015.

Velmurugan S, CL

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever - Mahatma

Gandhi

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Santhanalakshmi Rama-lingam, ALB, ACB

VOICE OF Area Director - B1

A journey of thousand miles starts with single step... What if the first step gets you the feel of 1000 miles reached...that's what Toastmasters gives you... And you aren’t alone when you are with CTC… A club started just 2 years back...has grown on its own... With its 2 USP… 1. The encouragement 2. The members During the club's journey... It has also seen downtrends...ups and downs are part of life.. Else.. Even the ECG shows you are dead… It takes immense hard work and dedication to bring back the energy and strength... CTC is marching pride on the right direction with full energy and strength... And the additions have become addictions… I take this moment to not just Thank the ex-comm...but to Salute them for having a strong front facing army... And make every step a special count (trust)… I feel proud that CTC produces DTMs and Leaders… A march on the right direction... Excellence in execution... Leadership in action... Way to go... All the best... Keep rocking

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Santana Lakshmi is member of

our CTC and she served as VPE

of CTC. She is the Area- B1

Director

She is working in PNB Paribas.

She has won many awards in

Toastmasters during last year

including

Triple Crown Award

Phoenix Award for reviving a

Club

Exemplary Work Award

Net Club growth Award

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Saro Velrajan works for Verison,

as Director - Technology. He has

17 years of experience in net-

working technologies, working

for leading companies such as

Cisco Systems, Ericsson, and

Juniper Networks. Saro has an

MBA in Technology Manage-

ment from University of Phoe-

nix.

Saro is a member of Toastmas-

ters International since 2006 .

VOICE OF DTM

3Rs of a Successful Toastmaster

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and be-come more, you are a leader.— John Quincy Adams

It was the year 2010, I was serving as the President of Chennai Toast-

masters Club. A guest in his mid-20s approached me at the end of the

meeting and asked, “Sir! I’m completely impressed by the meeting. Can I

complete the entire course in just 1 year? I’m very busy with lot of other

activities and I want to complete this course soon”.

He is not an exception. Very recently, I was approached by a young

toastmaster who said “Sir! I am doing my under graduation now and I

have lots of spare time. I want to complete my DTM in the next two

years”.

I have seen several toastmasters who want to complete their speaking

projects and leadership assignments, soon. Public Speaking and Lead-

ership are skills that are developed by practicing, participating and per-

forming. There are absolutely NO SHORTCUTS. If there is one magic

pill that you can swallow before going to the bed and wake up as a com-

petent speaker the next day morning, everybody will be a competent

speaker today.

So, how can you get the maximum out of the toastmasters program?

The fullest benefit of toastmasters program can be achieved only when

you follow the 3Rs:

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Through his blog, he shares

his communication and lead-

ership experience with fellow

Toastmasters. Saro's Corner

is a onestop shop for public

speaking and leadership de-

velopment tips, sample

Toastmasters project speech-

es, Toastmasters role player

templates, and many more

useful information for mem-

bers, club officers and events

organizers.

For Details refer the below

site:

www.saroscorner.com

VOICE OF DTMs

3Rs of a Successful Toastmaster

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

- John C. Maxwell

1. Regularity

Being regular is the most important trait of a successful toastmaster.

What happens to an athlete, when he/she doesn’t exercise regularly;

when he/she doesn’t attend practice sessions regularly? Mastering the

art of public speaking is very similar to sports – it requires regular prac-

tice. What better platform can you get to regularly practice your skills

than a toastmasters club?

Regularly attend club meetings

Regularly take a diverse set of roles in the club meeting

Regularly deliver speeches in your club and in other clubs

Regularly participate in contests and benchmark your perfor-

mance

Regularly take leadership roles in your club and outside your clubs

2. Research

Performing adequate research is important for any assignment that you

do – not just in toastmasters. Charles E. Jones, a famous author said

"Five years from now you'll be the same person you are today except for

the books you read and the people you meet”. It is very true. As a toast-

master, we need to develop habits of reading books, reading newspa-

pers, attending educational programs, participating in contests and con-

tinuously learning new things by research. Research helps us to discov-

er new ways of doing things, it helps us to constantly innovate and dis-

cover a BETTER YOU!

3. Rehearsals

Our District 82 Champions TM Alexandar Babu, and TM Guruprasad

delivered a 7 minutes humorous speech to win the prestigious 1st and

3rd positions respectively in the district conference, Reverberations 2012.

Can you imagine how many times they would’ve rehearsed before their

most memorable performance at the District? They rehearsed at least a

50 times for months together, before their final performance at the dis-

trict. If great champions have to rehearse for at least 50 times before

their performance, how many times should we rehearse before giving

our speech at the club? A successful toastmaster, rehearses multiple

times before they do any performance in toastmasters.

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He is a member of

Coromandel Toast-

masters Club. He is

the Managing Partner

at TOSS the COIN

He is a graduate from

University of BITS,

Pilani.

His contribution to

the growth of Toast-

masters movements

in Tamilnadu is sig-

nificant.

Voice of DTM

Having been in the IT industry for over two decades, I very well knew the

importance of communication and leadership in shaping up my career. I

have always believed in the fact that beyond a certain level, it’s the com-

munication skill that will help climb the corporate ladder. In the absence of

this trait, one will lay stagnant!

World over, public speaking and

communication skills resonate

with the term "Toastmasters".

People from all walks of life

have spoken a lot about the

benefits of Toastmasters. While

many have succeeded in devel-

oping their communication skills,

many others have learnt the art

of leadership skills.

So, when you join toastmasters,

you are very much answering

the fundamental question in your

mind – “What’s in it for me?”

Everybody claims to be a great communicator or the least presumes to be

a great communicator. Simply put, we end up communicating our ideas

and thoughts across every day. So what’s the difference and where is the

need?

In my opinion, learning the art of communicating in such a way that we are

able to connect and also articulate, makes all the difference. It’s all about

packaging. Where to tell what and how! This is where we all tend to go

wrong and by the time we realize, the damage is done.

The winner of the 2015 WCPS’s title was the “Power of words”. His

speech resonates with this theory. Words when said can either break or

build a relationship. The question is ‘How to say it?’ I firmly believe that

Toastmasters gives each of us a platform to practice various forms of

communication which will eventually let us practice the art of communica-

tion.

So, that answers the question ‘What’s in it for me?’ A lot, my dear friend!

Explore and you will witness the answers explode in front of you ! Happy

Toastmastering.

Live life king size. Tomorrow is a prediction while today is reality— DTM Jayan

What’s in it for me?

DTM Jayan Narayan

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Rajesh Natarajan

He is passionate

Toastmasters for

more than 7 years.

He is working for Fu-

ture Focus Infotech

Private Limited.

He has served many

roles in toastmasters

which includes

president in Chennai

Toastmasters Club

and Area Governor

Voice of well wisher

Greetings to members of Coromandel Toastmasters! If there is anything common among fellow human beings cutting across Race, Religion and Gender, it is in quest to being Successful. Everyone wants to succeed in their life in their own ways. We look up to the stal-warts in our chosen field. We are inspired by their success and decide to follow their footsteps. Wait a minute! Did I say, follow their footsteps? In our quest to excel in a chosen field we have three options in front of us. One is to emulate others. Second is to work on our weakness. Third is to leverage our strengths.

While the first option seem to be a shortcut to success, it is disastrous to emulate others since you lose your creativity. Second option of working on your weakness will also not work since how much ever we work, there are always going to be weakness within us. Finally we are left with the last and the best choice of leveraging our strengths to achieve our vision. Lev-eraging our strength in a chosen field is like an arrow that comes out of the bow, there is only one direction, FORWARD direction. Similarly, inspired by listening to erudite and eloquent speeches of toast-masters, we join this movement to become better public speakers. I take this opportunity to share a PIECE OF good news with you. You can also become a great public speaker. Not by emulating others or working on your weaknesses, but only by leveraging your strengths. That will take you only in the FORWARD direction. The Extent you leverage, will not only make your speeches special, but you will also become special.

"You always think this moment will never come. Sometimes you have to be lost to be found” -

Dananjaya

My Message to CTC

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Satish is one of the most

energetic & effervescent

Member CTC. Apart from

CTC, he is attending

many other club meet-

ings in Chennai regularly.

He is the winner of the

Evaluation contest -

August 15 in CTC.

He is an IT professional

working in banking sec-

tor.

As the VPE in the previ-

ous term, he had brought

the high standards and

quality in the club meet-

ings.

He believed that one

person should do only

one role in a meeting to

maintain the standards

and to ensure equal op-

portunity to every one.

VOICE OF NEW MEMBERS

Snakes and their legs

A few months ago I was browsing through a thick voluminous book in a

bookstore in Chennai. It was a photo biography of Sir Winston Churchill.

The author had painfully collated pictures of Churchill in a chronological

order to help readers to have a good appreciation of this great man's

life. There were several pictures of him since his childhood, defining vari-

ous phases of his illustrious life. These included those defining moments

when Churchill brought Britain back from the brink of disaster through

his scintillating speeches, to a magnificent victory in World War II. Pic-

tures of him making passionate speeches to the nation were all en-

thralling. Towards the end of this book, there was this specific picture of

Churchill delivering a public speech. It appeared to me as inconspicuous

and I did not have any clue of its significance until I read through the au-

thor's note on this. It was surprising and equally shocking for me. The

author 's comment on this picture was to the following effect: Winston

Churchill, having been away from public life for two years, is now unable

to deliver a public speech without entirely relying on a piece of paper. I

looked at the picture again. Yes, he was reading through a paper. Know-

ing what the world knows Winston Churchill as a remarkable public

speaker, could this happen to him if he goes out of touch with public

speaking for two years? Is this what happens to Toastmasters if we don't

continuously and consistently be involved with public speaking? It re-

minded me of an old the-

ory that snakes had legs

during the pre-historic

times. But they never

bothered to use them.

Instead, they used only

their bodies to move

along. Hence in the pro-

cess of evolution, nature

decided to do away with

the legs which snakes

were not using. If some-

thing was not used for a long time, it is as good as lost.

"The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to

speak in public — George Jessel

TM Satish

Coromandel Toast-

masters Club

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TM Raman K

Raman is Vibrant and en-

ergetic member of CTC.

He was served as VP

Membership in CTC in the

previous term. He had put

enormous efforts to retain

the existing members and

to add more new mem-

bers.

In the Current term, he is

serving as VP Education.

He has set a high standard

to make the meeting ener-

getic and fun filled and

maintain the same for eve-

ry meeting.

VOICE OF MEMBERS

TM Raman

From my child hood I am not good in communicating in Eng-

lish. I was shy and had hesitation in speaking to people in so-

cial gatherings. In fact one to one conversation with my client

was difficult for me. I joined Coromandel toastmasters club

last year. After one and half years in CTC, Toastmasters has

made the greatest positive impact on my life. I have improved

my communica-

tion skills and

Negotiating skills

and it is a stress

buster for me.

Now I am able to

speak confidently

with clients and

in social gather-

ings I mingle with

people. Now I am feeling good. Still long way to go. There are

many people like me still outside toastmasters we will bring

them into toastmasters and make them enjoy the benefits of

toastmasters. Let’s grow together.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something—Thomas Huxley

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TM Sundaresan

Moorthy

He is a member of

CTC.

He is an IT profes-

sional and working

as Associate Direc-

tor in Cognizant

Technology

He is dedicated to

the role taken by

him in club meet-

ings.

VOICE OF MEMBERS

First Impression

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learnt—Albert Einstein

Now-a-days we notice lot of flash advertisements while brows-

ing an internet which attracts us to click the link and start ex-

ploring on

some topic like

sale in flipart or

amazon.com

etc., This

makes us to

browse those

web sites and

end up in doing

some shop-

ping. All these

things are pos-

sible just be-

cause of 2 line

advertisement

in a website –

which need to

be attractive - creating a good first impression goes long way.

This is more applicable in our professional life as how we cre-

ate first impression or do elevated pitch make us to be more

successful. No professional course would help to do other than

being part of Toastmasters.

I realized that being in Toastmaster, I get opportunity to play

multiple roles and impromptu thinking which would help me

to sharpen my elevated pitch skills. I have started passing posi-

tive impact with my friends and colleagues and started encour-

aging them to join Toastmasters.

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TM Subramani

Sellamani

He is a member of

CTC.

He is a doctorate in

Mechanical Engi-

neering.

He works for Re-

nault Nissan

He is dedicated to

the role taken by

him in club meet-

ings.

VOICE OF MEMBERS

My journey with CTC

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.- Steve Jobs

On 7th November 2014, I had delivered my “CC1 – The Ice break-

er” and summarised my speech as follow. “I am here, in this club

to come out of the fear of public speaking and leave my habit of

procrastination.

A year from now, I will wish I had started my journey today.

This time, my single

step in the right direc-

tion…. “

After 10 months, I feel

that I am realising my

wish. This week, I have

completed my CC7,

Research your topic.

Most memorable one is

my CC4 How to say it; I

had delivered this

speech at Hanoi speakers club in Vietnam. Speaking in front of an

international audience gives a unique experience where your ac-

cent and pace of your speech needs to be controlled. I went a

speech with 600 words and delivered only around 500 words, I

was adaptive to trim my speech on the go. After all, in any

speech, only speaker knows the content and not audience.

My journey with Coromandal Toastmasters Club is exotic journey

and it provides plenty of opportunity to its members.

CTC is not only a platform for public speaking; it is also a gateway

for leadership skill development and networking. Thank you each

one of you in our club. Public speaking is a skill; it will be con-

curred only by diligent practice.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to

keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

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TM Karunakaran

Elumalai

He is a member of

CTC.

He is a Mechanical

Engineer and works

for Renault Nissan.

He is a humorous

speaker and winner

of Humorous

Speech contest –

Sept’15 in Area Lev-

el.

He is a good singer

& dancer

He is Sergeant-at–

Arm in CTC

VOICE OF MEMBERS

Who is Happy???

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.- Ray Kroc

A Crow was absolutely satisfied in life. But one day he saw a swan. This

swan is so white and I am so black...crow thought, “This swan must be

the happiest bird in the world". He expressed his thoughts to the swan.

"Actually," the swan replied, "I was feeling the same way until I saw a

parrot, which has two colours. I now think the parrot is the happiest bird

in creation."

The crow then approached the parrot. The parrot explained, "I lived a

very happy life—until I saw a peacock. I have only two colours, but the

peacock has multiple colours." The crow then visited a peacock in the

zoo and saw that hundreds of people had gathered to see him. After the

people had left, the crow approached the Peacock and exclaimed, “Dear

Peacock, You are so beautiful. Every day thousands of people come to

see you. When people see me, they immediately shoo me away. I think

you are the happiest bird on the planet”. The peacock replied, “I always

thought that I was the most beautiful and happy bird on the planet. But

because of my beauty, I am entrapped in this zoo. I have examined the

zoo very carefully, and I have realized that the crow is the only bird not

kept in a cage. So for past few days I have been thinking that if I was a

crow, I could happily roam everywhere”.

That's our problem too. We make unnecessary comparison with others

and become sad. We don't value what God has given us. This all leads

to the vicious cycle of unhappiness. Value the things God has given us.

Learn the secret of being happy and discard the comparison which

leads only to unhappiness...

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TM Hariharan

He is a young and

energetic member

of CTC.

He is dedicated to

the role taken by

him in the club

meetings.

VOICE OF MEMBERS

Gratitude

Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.- Warren Bennis

Human beings are competitive and want to succeed in all directions. Perhaps, par-

tially he has succeeded which has resulted in enormous control over nature and

also has got greater comfort than any other species in this earth.

On the other hand, It’s does not mean that seeking comfort and success is wrong

and one has to return back to Stone Age. But does a person realize that just by

keep on moving towards after success; he is completely forgets to acknowledge

whatever he has already succeeded in his past? He has a breath which he owes

gratitude to Cyanobacteria (first creature to create oxygen in this earth), He has

good food which owes gratitude to nature, and he has balance and happiness

which he owes gratitude to friends and relationship he has, which really add

meaning to his life.

Success is like a dog without legs. Even if you tries to call it in any circumstance, it

can’t come. It’s so much out of one’s control. If one tries not to get blinded by

success and be grateful to everything around him , we can create a better loving

and peaceful environment. All I say is we can only be believed to be alive in those

moments when our heart are conscious of our treasures and understand how

privileged we are and be grateful on what we have.

So, please be grateful for your wealth, health, your time which is precious and for

your family and friends which are priceless. Now you have the key to be happy, so

use it immediately before someone changes the lock.

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TM Jo Srinivasan

He is a member of CTC.

He is a professional

Trainer.

He won the 1st runner

up in Evaluation con-

test-Sept 15 in the Area

level, and he would be

representing our club

in Division level.

He won the 2nd

runner

up in Area level in Inter-

national Speech Con-

test—March’15

VOICE OF MEMBERS

The contest I didn’t have with myself.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.- John F. Kennedy

We all should compete with ourselves and become better. That is the spirit be-

hind our Toastmaster contests. But, in the initial stages, we tend to forget this,

and the so called cup is our “target”, only target.

My first tryst with humor contest started with MTM humor contest, as soon as I

was in Toastmasters. I contested, scribbled something the previous

day (and had audacity to call it as “script”) while attending a meeting (Meeting

was so interesting and the speaker thought I am taking “notes” of what he is say-

ing !). In project parlance, the commencement of the project got delayed…. .

could not much time to prepare. Naturally, after going to the stage in contest, I

forgot the ‘script” in many places and I was constrained to “fill” on the spot. The

audience response was good, only where I forgot the script and was “filling”, and

they were serious where I paused for them to “laugh”.

In six months of Toasmastering exposure, I became a bit better. With a change

of club due to “operational reasons”, I participated in the International speech

and TT contest. With a win at both the contests at the club level, and a runner up

position in area my confidence grew. As I was going even after the red card was

shown, that created anxiety. I took this as lesson learnt. Frequent changes in

script till the last moment, even after getting into the stage ( “improvisation” mis-

understood”) I couldn’t smash, but gave a decent performance. But lesson

learnt was in my mind… Timing… disqualification…….

The next humor contest came. As usual, started thinking about that well in ad-

vance by 20 hours, before the contest! In humor, if we are not making the audi-

ence laugh in the beginning, we are out. Forgetting this, the learning I had in the

last occasion came to mind, (last time my speech went into grace time....anxious

if had crossed the ‘laksman rekha’ . overlearned and I was eager to stop at yel-

low line ). And, I removed a starting joke in the last minute…. After serious few

minutes of “trying to connect with the audience”, making them think if this contest

is a humorous one, I came back to track. But it was too late.

In humor contest, if we fail to make them laugh in the beginning, we are not in

the reckoning, whatever we do in the middle or in the end .I lost the plot. Plus the

audience was in a terrible dilemma whether to laugh, as I was conveying some-

thing sensitive, about my struggle with an online matrimony site.

This fiasco is shared for future learning. Lessons learnt -

Learning from previous experience is good; over learning from the same is not...

No last minute script changes in contest. Enjoy the process.

Start early (one day .before is too much. one week ahead you should start…

OMG, what I said…. Start early…. But in

the case of this article too, request came

long ago, starting after the deadline

started…. After three reminders….. This

procrastination reminded of an FB post,

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UPDATES FROM DIVISION

DIV B Conference

Convergence - 2015

The Division B have set

all the Area winners to

be ready

Date: 17th Oct, 2015

Time: 1:30 p.m. onwards

Venue: Bharath Universi-

ty, Selaiyur, Chennai

Registration fee: INR 150/

Register at:

Www.divbd82.org/

convergence

Keynote Speaker

DTM Aditya Maheswa-

ran, 1st Runner Up, World

Championship of Public Speaking

has got a lot of his public speak-

ing experience in the World

Stage to share with you all!

We are waiting to Educate, En-

tertain and Evolve you in your

Toastmasters journey. Hope to

see you all at Convergence!

DIVISION B

Council Members of Division B District 82 at your service!!

Feel free to connect with the Division Officers via Facebook:

Division Director - Yuva Raju

Area Director B1 - Santhana Lakshmi

Area Director B2 - Subhadip Banik

Area Director B3 - Samuel Whitefield

Area Director B4 - Vamsi Sridhar

Area Director B5 - Lavakumar Mudduluru

Asst. Division Director (Education) - Karthikeyan Arumugam

Asst. Division Director (Marketing) - Balaganesan Krishnamurthy

Public Relations Officer - Navaneeth Krish

Treasurer - Venkata Krishnan

Secretary - Revathy

Want to send a note to the whole Division Team? You can drop

a mail to division-b-excom-d82@googlegroups.com

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. –Oprah Winfrey

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CTC HALL OF FAME

CONTEST TIME

CTC presents itself in all the con-

tests both as role-players and as

winners to participate.

Target Speaker

Presence of Area Directors

Area B2– Subhadip Bhanik Area B1 - SanthanaLakshmi

Timers

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is— Vince Lambardi

CTC’s Humorous and Evaluation contest

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CTC HALL OF FAME

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excel-lence is expected.- Steve Jobs

100th Meeting Celebration occasion

New Club officers Installation—July’2015

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CTC HALL OF FAME

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker

Joint conference of Area B1 Clubs was held at CTC on 15th August 2015. CTC, CSC Chennai Chapters

Toastmasters, Congruent Toastmasters Club and CSS Corp Toastmasters clubs were participat-

ed. B1 Area Director, Santhanalakshmi Ramalingam was visited to this meeting and TM Ragul Sharma

was delivered an education Session on Evaluation Contest.

Joint conference of Area B2 Clubs with CTC was held at CTC on 1st August 2015. CTC, Infosys Chennai

Toastmasters, Ford Toastmasters club, MRV Toastmasters club, Nokia-Siemens Toastmasters club were par-

ticipated. B2 Area Director Subhadip Banic, B1 Area Director, Santhanalakshmi Ramalingam were visited to

this meeting and DTM Jayan Narayanan was delivered an education Session on Humorous Speech.

Joint Area B2Confluence in CTC

CTC HALL OF FAME

Joint Area B1 Confluence in CTC

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CTC HALL OF FAME

Don't find fault, find a remedy.- Henry Ford

CTC HALL OF FAME

CTC Group Photo

LGM –District 82—Sudash Liyanege visit to our club

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President

TM Velmurugan S

velmail2003@yahoo.com

Vice President Education

TM Raman K

raman3c@gmail.com

Vice President - Membership

TM Ramkumar

ramkumar.k.ctm@gmail.com

Vice President - Public Relations

TM Deepak

sdeepakraj.tm@gmail.com

Secretary

TM Ragini

raginianburaj@gmail.com

Treasurer

TM Senthilkumar

s_shenthil@yahoo.co.in

Sergeant at Arms

TM Karunakaran

karuna618@yahoo.co.in

Immediate Past President

Vinutha Govindan

vinu.athena@gmail.com

Details of club

Toastmasters international

Visit our own facebook Page—CTC

http://coromandeltc.in/

And we crossed 542 likes. We thank

everyone who reached and liked our

CTC facebook page.

We now accept articles for our next edition!

Send your articles to

coromandeltoastmastersclub@gmail.com

CTC’s Distinguished Club Program (DCP) Status

The Distinguished Club Program by Toastmasters International helps the

clubs to promote equality, ensure productive meetings, provide structure

and guidance and increase the enthusiasm of the club. The DCP in-

cludes 10 goals which a club should strive to achieve each year.

A club receives the status of

Distinguished Club - 5 of 10 goals are met

Select Distinguished Club - 7 of 10 goals are met

President’s Distinguished Club - 9 of 10 goals are met

DCP requirements and CTC’s status—as on 29th Sep-

tember 2015

Requirements achieved by CTC are highlighted in Green

In target for next 3 months are highlighted in Blue

1. Two Competent Communicators

2. Two More Competent Communicators

3. One ACB, ACS or ACG

4. One more ACB, ACS or ACG

5. One CL, ALB, ALS or DTM

6. One more CL, ALB, ALS or DTM

7. Four new members

8. Four more new members

9. Four officers trained at each COT

10. Membership renewal and Club Officer list submitted on time

We are moving towards President Distinguished Club!

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way— John C Maxwell