Nanjing Toastmasters

Nanjing No.1 Toastmasters Club and
Alcatel-Lucent Smart Speakers Toastmasters Club present
:

DEMO MEETING

Sunday August 22 14:00 – 16:00

Phoenix International Book Mall
Multifunctional Hall, 5th Floor,  1 Hunan Road
(See attached map)

Become the speaker and leader you want to be with Toastmasters. Toastmasters is a worldwide non-profit organization aiming to help their members improve public speaking, presentation and leadership skills in an enjoyable and affordable way through practice and active participation.

Nanjing No.1 Toastmasters Club has been established in 2009 and now has more than 30 active members meeting weekly. Toastmasters is especially useful for young professionals wishing  to improve their speaking and presentation capabilities, but we have members from a variety of backgrounds and everybody is welcome to join.

We are always looking for new members, so if you are interested and/or want to know more, come and visit our next demo meeting.

Want to be a better communicator?

Want to be a better presenter?

Want to grow your business network?

Want  to make new friends?

Want to be a leader?

Come and visit our demo meeting  and see what it is all about!!

realized with support of Phoenix International Bookmall: www.book-city.cn

Welcome to the website of the Nanjing No.1 Toastmasters Club.  Toastmasters is a member-driven, non-profit organization with nearly 250,000 members in more than 12,500 clubs in 106 countries, offering a proven – and enjoyable! – way to practice and hone communication and leadership skills. To read more about Toastmasters and our Nanjing club, see the links in the menu above.

Our next meeting will be  upcoming Tuesday   from 1915 to 2045 at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Click for details) .  As always  guests are more than welcome. If you would like to have detailed instructions, send us an e-mail at info@nanjingtoastmasters.com

It took a little while, but here finally some of the pics from our demo meeting, you can see them all on this page (you have to be a registered member on the site in order to see all photos)

Tuesday december 8th it is time again for our weekly meeting, from 1915 to 2045 at the Kongzi Academy (click here for a map).  You can download the agenda here.  If you are not  a member yet but are interested, feel free to come and have a look!

Yesterday, I was “Toastmaster for the Evening” for the first time. The toastmaster is responsible for organising the evening’s main speakers and other participants, and for introducing each participant to the audience. It’s a chance to be the host for the whole two hour event.

It was a learning experience.Here comes the summary:

What I did OK:

–Successfully kept the whole process smoothly running.
–Tried the new way to introduce speakers before the speech,from their expertise,background,name etc.
–Tried to make some funny comments,though few laugh.

What I can do better:
–As a TME, you got to control the whole situation like: start the meeting on time,stop the speaker in case his/her time really running out etc. Follow the Toastmaster rule,this is the excellent point Rex made yesterday.
–Role Announcement.I DID introduce the time keeper/ah counter but  forget to mention evaluator.
–Transition comments between the speaks is made in  kind of  rush.How to make it more seamlessly and naturally ?

We have received a large amount of positive responses to our initiative so far, and are now confident that we can get this thing started in Nanjing!

To tell you all something more about Toastmasters, our progress so far and our plans for the future, we have decided to organize an information meeting on August 26 (Wednesday) from 7:15 pm to 8:45 pm at Kongzi Academy, who kindly offer their venue for this meeting. Here are the main activities we are going to cover at the meeting:

• Introduction of Nanjing Toastmasters;
• Introduction of Nanjing Toastmasters officers;
• Break-out Session (Guests to meet officers for more questions);
• Setting demo date and place;
• Final comments and questions.

Please confirm you attendance before Aug 25 by e-mailing to info@nanjingtoastmasters.com
Hope to see you all on Wednesday!

Regards,

Nanjing Toastmasters Team

Meeting Details: Kongzi Academy address:
Zun Jin Ge Pavilion, No.53 Gong Yuan West Street, Fuzimiao (Confucius Temple) Nanjing. It’s at the back of the Mandarin Garden Hotel at the Confucius Temple Area.

Map; click for large version