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TCS Insurance Toastmasters Club
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EBULLIENCE
TCS Insurance Toastmasters club
Volume 2, Issue # 6
Date : 22-Apr-2014
WAVES– Footprints in Ocean
What is Toastmasters??
Inside Stories:

President‘s Note

Toastmaster Journey

Practice to Expertise

Are short cuts really worth it?

Best Of Best—An
Interview

Award Winners

Winners Talk

Meet Newbies

Is That it??

Leadership skill

Innocence lost

Testimonial

Why Join Toastmasters???

Lets Learn

Time to laugh

Experience : The
Chair

Happenings
around the TM
Corner‘s

What Excom has to
share

Feedback
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Our Mission
oastmasters
International
is
a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members 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, listening, and
thinking.
To 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
History
Club Meets @
The organization grew out of a single club, Smedley
Chapter One Club, which would become the first
Toastmasters club. It was founded by Ralph C. Smedley on October 22, 1924, at the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, United States. Toastmasters International was
incorporated under California law on December 19,
1932. Throughout its history, Toastmasters has served
over four million people, and today the organization
serves over 292,000 members in 122 countries, through
its over 14,350 member clubs.
Tuesday 2:45-4:30PM @
ATL Building, Class-5,
Flr 2, Siruseri
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From the Editor’s Desk
A warm welcome to Dear Readers!!
Toastmasters is an Ocean- an ocean of communication skills, an ocean of leadership
skills, an ocean of creative explorers.
Just as an ocean is bland and unexciting without its waves, so is a club without its
wave-riding members, the members who have fearlessly dived into the unfathomable depths and have risen up, wearing the cape of confidence and attitude, and as
these members shine they also leave their deep footprints that other can follow and
explore new beauty. With this thought Ebullience comes with a theme Waves Footprints in Ocean. It brings you the diversified footprints from the members
TM Dipti
who have tasted the happiness of embarking the wave-ridden journey.
Imprints from the winners of the Club Contest…
Insights form the Best Toastmaster of our club…..
Happening's around the Toastmasters corner‘s & Lot more…
What are you waiting for?? Don‘t hesitate, just dive in reading and feel the myriad and enchanting articles form our
electrified Toastmasters who have etched their thoughts in words beyond mere description. As you keep diving you
will unravel talks from newbies of our club .
The edition is spiced up with grammar tips and humor, thanks to the dynamic editors TM Bala and TM Lavanya for
their creative efforts. And a special thanks to TM Lakshmipriya to offer her helping hand.
Have a breath taking dip while you read through the wavy Ebullience!!!!!
Hope you enjoy it!!!
Meet Editorial Team
Warm Regards,
Dipti Jain
Editor-In-Chief
Quote of the Month
S
it in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break
upon the idle seashore of the mind.
— Henry Wadsworth
TM Lavanya
TM Bala
TM Dipti
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President’s Note
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y Dear Toastmasters/Guests,
A good start is half the battle won!
We had an excellent start to this year with a successfully organized second
anniversary celebration, CC1 Marathon, electrifying club contest and interesting sessions week after week. I extend my thanks and proudly pass on the
credit to each one of us for what we have done this year so far!
TM Karthikeyan
My sincere gratitude and congratulation to each of you for helping our club
President
achieve 10 out of 10 DCB points to become a President's Distinguished Club. Special
thanks to Pavithra Mohan and Pavithra Manivannan for completing their ACB journey. When you read this note, our
club has satisfied all the criteria to retain the prestigious Golden Gavel.
Kudos to our Toastmasters!!!
As I said, the battle is only half won and we have a lot of growing to do in the months to come. I sincerely request our
toastmasters to prioritize your mission to grow with the club, be it attending the sessions, taking up roles, delivering
speeches or mentoring fellow toastmasters. We require your time and dedication to do it in the best possible way and
to make the Toastmastering experience more delightful and fruitful to all of us.
To our new members - Welcome to the TITMAS family.
To our outgoing members - Thanks for your contribution and good luck to your future endeavors.
Special thanks to our newsletter team for Ebullience 5.0
With full of hopes and promise, lets continue the momentum for an exciting and gratifying learning experience!
Karthikeyan Boopathy
President
TCS Insurance Toastmasters Club
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My Toastmasters Journey….
I
can now call myself a Competent Communicator, after completing the 10 Speeches that are required to
attain this level. 15 months back when I started the Competent Communicator journey I was not sure if I would be
able to complete the required 10 speeches.
I had joined the Toastmasters largely out of compulsion
than passion. So I started the journey involuntarily. First 3
speeches of mine were not practiced. I used to prepare
them while travelling from my home to office in the bus. I
managed to complete the initial speeches by paying little
attention to the feedback being provided by experienced
speakers. However when I read the objectives of CC4, I
realized that there is something in Toastmasters, after listening to some speakers who were at the final stages of CC
journey I realized that Toastmasters can really help you to
become a better communicator.
That was a moment of change in my journey. From that
point till the time I completed my CC10, I prepared well
for my speeches and did the homework based on the objectives provided for each speech. I slowly started realizing
that I too can deliver good speeches and more than that
preparation for each speech as what topic to choose, what
to write, how to add humor, how to inculcate an effective
body language and many more really helped me to improve my overall skills.
Today, I have the confidence to talk before 100 people
without any fear and without any stammer. From a naïve
person who hardly had the courage to stand up and speak
before people, Toastmasters had made a difference not only in my attitude but to my personality as a whole. Now I
pay more attention to what I speak and how I speak. I am
able to articulate my thoughts and views in a better fashion
TM Vaidyanathan
Competent Communicator
than earlier despite the recipient are my superiors or
my juniors.
My presentation skills has improved and now I am
not only able to make better presentations but also
able to deliver them more emphatically than before. It
has not only helped me in communication but also in
organization and collaboration. Various CC roles like
Grammarian, Evaluator, and Table Topic Master each
have their own unique specialties that help you in
your overall improvement. Many of the associates
who run the Toastmaster are juniors but there is a lot
that can be learnt from them especially with respect to
Toastmasters, basically the energy and passion the
moment you enter the Toast master arena you get infected by it.
However CC is just a step in the right direction but to
become a very good communicator and orator requires lot of practice and that‘s what I am doing now.
Toastmasters teaches you how to drive a car safely
and tactfully but your practice on what you had learnt
makes you a better driver. So I end saying join Toastmasters to improve not only your communication
skills but overall you.
You can achieve more than what you have achieved
now, Toastmasters is the journey that can help you
reach there.
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Practice to Expertise
I
was part of my school‘s 4x100 meters relay team. My team was selected to
represent our zone at the district level and we started practicing just two
days before the competition; we ended up being unsuccessful on the race day.
Little did I know then that the race day is no different from the practice sessions
that we do. We as a team should have started the practice much earlier and not
just two days before the race; yes, practice hard and long to the level that the perTM Srivatsan
formance comes naturally to you.
Over the years I realize that importance of practice which is scientifically explained with facts in Malcolm. C.
Gladwell‗s book Outliers where the secret of exceptionally successful personalities or teams is uncovered. The author
arrives at a number of hours of practice (> 10,000 hours of practice) that is required for any to excel at what they are
doing. Bill Gates was a prodigy child, a gifted child – This is what we say when we discuss about how he could become
the richest in the world with his computer skills.
Gladwell uncovers an aspect that Bill Gates has spent more than 10,000 hours of computer programming before he really became successful. We all know Sachin Tendulkar was a gifted child and batting came so naturally to him. The fact is
apart from his gifted skills; Sachin Tendulkar had more hours of practice behind him before he catapulted on to the big
stage. Be it computer programming or playing cricket, the 10,000 hours of practice rule applies!
Where ever we go today, we demand we get the best service that is available. We go to service our car, we want the
best mechanic to service our car; we go to a hair salon, we want the best hair-dresser to do our hair; and the list goes on.
What makes them the best and most sought after, it‘s only the hours of practice that they have put on their job and the
quality experience behind them that makes do their job better and be the preferred choice for their customers.
We nurture different ambitions - a writer, a speaker, a technologist, an athlete, a
cricket player, a photographer, a chef and so on. Spend time on the things that
you really want to do and grow your expertise. No matter if the world doesn‘t see
you as a Sachin or Bill Gates, you will have the satisfaction that you have given it
your best and you will appreciate that you were privileged to have spent on so
many hours on the things which you were passionate about.
“You are what you practice most”
— Richard Carlson
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Are short cuts really worth it????
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The Area Governor was trying very
hard to convince me that she wants
him to complete his CL at the earliest,
so that the club and the area can get a
CL credit. I asked her
ast week, I was driving with
my family in the Padi area in
Chennai. Songs of A.R. Rahman were
playing on my car stereo. Padi area was
relatively new to me. I had asked directions from a relative who asked me to
come through the main road to reach
his house. However, I thought I will use
my (―so called‖) intuitions and take one
of the cross roads to get to my destination faster. I drove my car into one of
those narrow streets which was just 15
feet wide. Half way into that street, I
found a water tanker filling water on
the black water tank erected in the
street. People surrounded the tanker
like bees in a bee hive. There was absolutely no space for me to overtake the
water tank. I thought I would take reverse and get to my destination
through the main road. To my surprise,
a few cars followed me into the street
and were right behind me. My car was
pretty much jammed in between, with
water tanker on the front and with
loads of trucks and cars behind me. I
had to wait for nearly 15 mins for the
water tanker to finish its job and leave
the street. I had to pay a price for taking
a short cut on that day. I reached my
destination 30 minutes late.
"If he has been with Toastmasters for 2
years and still hasn't completed his
CL...Why can't he wait for another 3
months to conduct a club level contest to
get the Contest Chairman credit?"
DTM Saro Velrajan
incident that happened, recently. An
Area Governor called me on a Friday
evening and said
She finally accepted to take him off
from the Contest Chairman role.
It is not just new Toastmasters who
are trying to complete their CCs &
CLs in a hurry. I have seen a few sen―Saro! I have a Toastmaster who has been ior Toastmasters, who rush through
with the movement for 2+ years. He has
their communication and leadership
completed all the roles from the CL manu- assignments to just add a DTM to
al, except for playing the Contest Chairtheir title. The ―so called‖ DTMs conman role. Every time there is a contest, he tinue to pace back ‗n forth on the
signs-up to be a contestant and skips the
stage thinking that they are ―using
opportunity to become a Contest Chairthe stage‖. The ―so called‖ DTMs canman. Even this time, he is a contestant in not conduct a 30 minutes educational
my Area contest. However, I want him to workshop, after which at least a
play the role of a Contest Chairman and
handful of participants would stop-by
get a CL credit for his role. Can I do that?‖
to say
I first thanked her for reaching out to
Sir! I liked your session‖.
me for consultation. I told the Area
The ―so called‖ DTMs cannot inspire
Governor,
even 5 members with their speeches.
―Mme! The role of a Contest Chairman is What makes you really distinguished,
to form a team, coach the team members,
the title or your actions? Recently, I
take care of logistics, and make sure that
How many times, we try to take such
read a news that ―Mahatma Gandhi‘s
every role player does their job well on the
shortcuts and get stuck in our life, caspectacles were bought for $1.8 milcontest day. If you are a contestant, you
reer and even in Toastmasters. Somelion‖. I was wow-struck when I heard
time or the other, we end up paying the cannot do any running around on the day that. DTM title is just a name tag…
of the contests. I personally feel that it is
price for it. For example, all of us join
the value of the tag is decided by the
Toastmasters with the intention to im- not appropriate to make someone play dual person who wears it.
roles in a contest – that too heavy lifting
prove our self. However, after joining
roles such as Contestant & Contest Chair- When leaders take shortcuts to
the movement, some of us get side
man. Moreover, TM rulebook doesn't alachieve results, the results are not
tracked by awards and recognitions.
low
a
contestant
to
be
a
role
player
during
long lasting. It is like building an emSome of us rush to complete our prothe contests. So, there is a chance for some- pire on top of a sand castle. The next
jects and do speeches just for the sake
one in the crowd to challenge you on the
time you take a short cut think twice
of doing them.
day of the Area Contests‖.
Let me share with you an interesting
– ―Are short cuts really worth it?‖
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Best Of Best – An Interview with the Besties
BEST TOASTMASTER
1) How would you explain TITMAS club to someone who doesn’t know
about it?
TITMAS Club is a
 A place for you to learn the art of communication and leadership skills.
 A place which will transform you to a better professional, a better human.
 A place not just for people lagging behind in public speaking, but a scope to
improvise even for a proficient speaker
 A stage where you can commit mistakes and learn.
 A place where you make lot of friends.
Just become a member and I am sure you will feel the change.
2) Being awarded as Best TM means
you are already a competent speaker &
leader. What according to you are the
qualities new members can imbibe
from TMs journey?
We members of TITMAS by listening to
other speeches improve our observation and listening skills, by preparing
speech scripts we learn written skills,
through mentors and evaluators we
learn to accept feedback in positive way
and improvise in forth coming speeches, by taking up roles in session we
learn managing and leadership skills,
by mentoring and evaluating we learn
to observe and give feedback, by delivering the speech we learn to overcome
stage fear, improvise our delivery, body
language, eye contact, confidence, vocal
variety, grammar ,time management
etc.
4. What has been your most successful experience in speech making &
what according to you one should
keep in mind before scripting any
speech?
For my CC6 speech which demands
vocal variety, I choose Bermuda triangle, I transformed the training room
to a flight and I stepped into the shoes
of Air Hostess and was narrating the
mystery of Bermuda triangle when
the flight was about to cross it. The
speech really came out well and I had
a chance to identify my imagination
skills. I am a person who is poor in memorizing and delivering it, hence I take
enough time to choose topics which are close to my heart and deliver it with
confidence. My suggestions for fellow toastmasters would be, choose a topic you
are passionate about and no matter you forget the script in middle of your
speech delivery, you still will have points to speak. You will feel more confident
during your speech delivery because you are going to speak something which
you are passionate about..
TM Pavithra
Best Toastmaster
3) Describe your journey in the
club ?
I became a member of TITMAS in
July 2012, and my first speech delivery was on 13th July 2012 at Sholinganallur TCS Campus. I served as
SAA of the club during the period
Jan 2013 - June 2013, As an VP-E from
July 2013 to Dec 2013.At each step, at
each role, at each session, at each contest, I learned to become more responsible. If I had to explain my entire TITMAS journey a page is not
enough, probably a book would suit.
TITMAS has given a lot to me and it
is time that I do something for this
club. Learning and Improving are the
treasures I acquired at each step and
the journey continues..
I choose Bermuda
triangle, I transformed the training
room to a flight and I
stepped into the
shoes of an air hostess ……..
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Best Of Best – Continued..
5) Recently you completed ACB, how complex was this
advance level journey?
I choose storytelling and professional speaker manual for
my ACB journey. Storytelling made me think in terms of a
child and I started delivering speeches assuming that listeners are children. Professional speaker manual was really challenging, each speech required a minimum of 15-20
minutes, and each project demanded a different delivery
from motivational to sales training speech, from keynote
address to professional seminar and I should say professional speaker manual made me realize my leadership
skills and transformed me to a better, confident and a professional speaker.
6) What are the qualifying criteria you think is necessary
before choosing any advance level topics?
Educational Award Winners
Advanced Communicator Bronze

Pavithra Manivannan

Pavithra Mohan
Competent Communicator
Choose the manuals which you are passionate about. If
you love telling stories to your kid, choose story telling
manual, if you are good at humor choose humorously
speaking manual, if you can entertain your audience
choose entertaining speaker. There are a total of 15 advanced communication manuals and we have freedom to
choose two manuals for each advanced journey.

Mohan Loganathan

Vaidyanathan Raghuraman
Best Of Best – Continued..

Lakshmipriya Kannan

Pavithra Manivannan
BEST CLUB OFFICER
Leadership Award Winners
Advanced leader Bronze
Competent leader

Lakshmipriya Kannan

Mohan Loganathan
Triple Crown Winner
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TM Ravali
M Ravali is a dedicated
toastmaster associated
with TITMAS for more than a
year. Before officially becoming
the VP-Membership of our club
she added new members and
aided in renewals. The personalized emails, texts and calls made

Lakshmipriya Kannan

Pavithra Manivannan
members to renew their membership without a second
thought. In the last one year she has been the face of the
club. More than Ravali is associated with TITMAS, the club
is associated with her and many people immediately recognize her name when they hear TITMAS. She has marked
the presence of our club in the area, division and district by
playing many roles and organizing events like officers
training program (OTP) for division G. She was one of the
best assets of the club and it was hard for us to bid farewell
as she moved to Hyderabad for her work assignment. TITMAS wish her all the best for her future and congratulates
her for being awarded as the BEST CLUB OFFICER.
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Winners Talk
TM Nivedita
Winner of Club Speech Contest
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inning a club level contest and participating in an area level was a gratifying, enjoyable & a great learning
experience. Though I did not win at the Area level, but I did not lose either. Rather I learned more in a
month than I ever could have dreamed. At the contest, I delivered stories from my life, shared the stage with eight
amazing people and made friendships not only with them but many other TMs from different clubs that I will always
relish. This contest not only helped me to improve my speech, but more importantly I heard some really inspiring stories and some great speeches which had remarkable takeaways.
Some important Do‘s and Don‘ts that I would like to share are:
1) Delivery (i.e. body gestures, eye contact, effective vocal varieties & correct pauses) of a speech is as important as
the content of a speech. This is something my speech lacked and probably got hurt because of it.
2) Choose topics (personal experience, success or failure stories) that are close to your heart and has an inspiring
takeaways.
3) Try to uncover humor in your speeches. It reduces boredom and brings out a sense of optimism in your speech.
I totally agree that the most critical discriminator between those who win and those who do not is preparation. Last
but not the least, by competing in the speech contests you will challenge yourself, you will grow, you will incorporate
everything you learnt during usual TMs sessions and you will realize many amazing things about yourself that you
were once ignorant.
The contest result might turn out negative but I can bet you will be a winner! Yes!! I am now a more energized and confident TM than ever before.
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y contest experience..
Hmmmm...
For the record, this is my first International Speech and TT contest. Before I
went to the Area contest, I knew 2 things.
First - Toastmasters are very good speakers.
Second - A good speech by a good orator has the power to change and inspire the world.
TM Karthikeyan
Runner up Club Speech Contest
But after competing at the contest, I discovered that "I" can be a good speaker as well and
"I" can inspire minds of few people with my speech if not the world. That‘s what competing with a fierce band of orators at a Toastmasters speech contest can do to you.
Its helps to discover your true potential.
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IS THAT IT?????
I
assuming that as a solution for their mer French journalist, and editor of
am done with you….I am sorry I problem
the famous fashion magazine ‗Elle‘,
don‘t want you in my life anysuffered a massive heart attack which
more. Leave me ....
resulted in him being left with
IS THAT IT????????????????
Locked-in Syndrome, he never gave
up.
I cant let you go like this.. I know
there is some misunderstanding be- Is that what they thought they would
tween us. I know we have got more do in their life???
Locked-in Syndrome is a neurological
vacuum space between us. But it was
disorder that leaves the body paraIs that what they dreamt about their
not intentional.. You know me. But
lyzed from head to toe despite the
future???
still why??? Please don‘t leave me
mind being left intact. Bauby discovIs that a permanent solution for a ered that he could blink his left eyelid
and go... Please don‘t let me down..
temporary problem??
and that was all he needed to write a
book. He wrote his book ‗The Diving
Have they ever thought before taking
June 27 it was Satya Rani
Bell and the Butterfly‘ by blinking
such decisions of their life???
his left eye when a person reading
July 3 it was Shanmugam
Where are they heading??
out letters from the alphabet spoke
July 9 it was Ashwini Nair
the correct letter. He died two days
after the book was published.
They are well educated, bought up
Chennai ... Hyderabad or some other with all the values. Just that they
failed at one particular instance, they Stephen Hawking, Admired by enplace…
let themselves down and head to- tire human race is a very good examwards such horrified decision. It takes ple to learn and understand the value
No matter who they are and what lot of guts to end one's life then why of life.
they do....They are no more....
not show the same guts to face the
hurdle.
Physically challenged or people who
An easy decision taken by young genare struggling with the life time diseration for the reasons like bad exam The study says, suicide claims twice ease have better reason for mercy killresults or over stress during studies. as many lives in India as HIV-AIDS. ing but still they fight with their disaThe most commonly known LOVE Suicide kills nearly as many Indian bilities to achieve or conquer someFailures.
men aged 15-29 as transportation ac- thing in their lives…
cidents.
Many of the youngsters are heading Here is a real hero story
According to me, people who are not
towards that destination with their When Jean-Dominique Bauby, for- strong enough to accept the failure
extreme overwhelming thinking by
are disabled than a person who is
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IS THAT IT????? Continued…….
are disabled than a person who is
physically challenged.
best lesson that we can teach them
than ending our life for those undeserved people. Suicide could be a
permanent solution for the person
who is no more but not for their
loved ones. Ideally, you are leaving
your loved ones in guilt of been unable to help you or stand for when
you were in need of them.
Only people who fight for their lives
knows the value of it, not like rest who
live a comfortable life with all the luxuries and take a decision to end the life
when they taste the failure.
We didn‘t even reach the 30th Mile in
our life and we are wise enough to take
decisions to leave everyone and everything.
We are not realizing the value of what
we are; we are not realizing the value
of what we have in us to reach the
heights. We can taste the success only
when we see the failure.
I can understand that those people
would be emotionally attached to the
incident happened to take such decisions, but that‘s the time one should
TM Lavanya
take control of their heart and
mind, that‘s the time they need to
be strong enough to face the situation and going. Once they are out
of that moment, they themselves
will realize how wrong they were
to take such decisions.
We should achieve more in our life
and show them what they have
missed in their life. It would be the
Suicide is the dumbest possible way
of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike
back are the very same folks who
won't even remember you for more
than a week after you're gone, while
the people you want to spare most -the people who love you -- are the
ones who will have to live with the
pain of your suicide for the rest of
their lives.
“SUICIDE is a permanent
solution to a temporary
problem”
- PHIL DONAHUE
At Ease– Synonyms and Antonyms
Directions: Find the antonyms and synonyms in the word search. All the words are
located either horizontally or vertically.
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Leadership Skill : To Praise
A
successful relationship is the key
to success. We are not God
and we don't reach heights
by ourselves. And one of
the important ways to grow
successful in any relationship is to be life-giving to
others. Every individual
TM Dipti
we meet, we either give
life to or take life from them. There are 2 kinds of people
one who encourages us and when we are with them we
feel determined and strong. Second ones are the others
with them we feel shattered and torn down.
Is there someone you know who is joyful? Hard-working?
Honest? Then let them know how much you appreciate
that in them. You can do it with a word, or a card, or a
phone call.
Example: “Denver your hard
work had really set a good example for others and I want
you to know how much I appreciate that in you.”
Successful people are people who have mastered the art
of developing and honing others up.
Example: “Sue you have a
brilliant ability to communicate the vision and mission
about the project and that
helps all of the rest of us out in
our roles and tasks. Thanks for
that. It is greatly acknowledged by everyone”
One of the ways we develop people is to praise them.
Praising people holds a power in itself. When you praise
someone, things change in your relationship. Remember a
time when someone appreciated you for something what
you have done? It was great, wasn‘t it?
You probably tend to like that person more after they
praise you. I am not asking to praise people for the sake of
praising. I am talking about honestly picking the positive
attributes, traits and action of others around you,
acknowledge them and appreciate them. Don't lie to people. If they have done something wrong, correct it, but
when they do something right, Praise It!
Acknowledge and Appreciate— Mantra to be a good
Leader
May be it you personal life or professional life make it as a
goal to praise at least three people a day. Or perhaps you
can try to praise everyone you come in contact with. It
will take pain and effort, but it is possible, and things become easier and life becomes smoother with just few
words of appreciation and praise. First for others, then for
you!
Benefits when you praise people:
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Growth of your relationship
Growth of your leadership skills
Growth of your power to influence others
Determined loyalty from the person you praise.
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Innocence Lost
I
t was early morning with first
rays of sun piercing through the
fog that was surrounding the area.
The cool breeze that was touching my
skin left me with a heavenly feeling.
The chilling effect of the surroundings can be felt by looking at the
blades of the grass that holds the water droplets hanging at the edges. As
the fog slowly settled down on the
land giving way to new day and new
hope as every other day, I started to
think that this could be the real wonderland.
future. Every footprint they leave in
their journey is actually a big question mark of the face of progress we
are making. Each inch they cover in
their hunger is actually pushing our
motherland inch by inch into doom,
gloom and shame.
In utter despair, I started to look elsewhere to higher and positive spirits.
And as I zoomed out the picture further and took a closer look at it from a
different angle my vision offered me
some hopeful and colorful outlook.
Just then I zoomed out of the picture I
was seeing, to look at it from a larger In that angle, all I could see are colorful clothes smoothly flying in softenperspective.
ing breeze. The clothes flying as victorious as the orange color flag flying
All of a sudden the fog that I saw mo- on top of the Lord Krishna's chariot in
ments ago turned into a dense layer his war for righteousness. The clothes
of dust and the mist turned into flying as lively as the greenish paddy
showering stone pelts. The rosy pic- fields. The clothes which are as
ture that I saw few moments ago smooth as the velvetiness of the white
started to show me the thorns around color cloth that Allah would like eveit. As the clear picture started to un- ryone to do their Namaz on. Before I
fold slowly, through the dust was could sink myself into this holy and
rising from back of their barefoot I tranquil experience, the wall of reality
was able to see the legs of street chil- started to push me back.
dren running in an air of uncertain
As I took a couple of steps back, the
national colors I saw on those clothes
started to fade off. Moments down
the line, all I could see are clothes
which are as faded and bloodstained
as the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. The
clothes which are nothing but the torn
and tattered dresses flying from the
back of the street-children who are
running their race for better livelihood. Like the flag that takes the side
of the wind, their struggle for better
life lands them in the hands of merciless landlords.
Vexed up with this contradicting
views of optimism and pessimism, I
decided to move closer to the reality
as much as possible and zoomed out
the picture to the maximum. Then I
was able to see the complete picture
in which a group of street children
are running on their way to workplace. A distant workplace at which a
small stream of water was flowing to
which they are running to quench
their thirst for hope and better future.
The water flow which is as promising
the hope offered by a mirage through
its illusion of water flow under
scorching sun.
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Innocence Lost Continued…….
Dear Readers, we got our freedom
more than 65 years ago but we still
have more than 65 million slaves
waiting for their freedom. The saddest
part is most of them are children. It is
widely perceived that our country has
not reproduced great Indians like
Dr.Ambedkar...Rabindranath Tagore...or Homi Jehangir Bhabha. I say
this is a big misconception. In my
opinion, those leaders are in fact reborn in every generation but unfortunately they are trapped as child laborers.
Few decades ago our authorities have
started their mission against child labor and few years ago they launched
a child care helpline with the number
1098.The number which symbolizes
ing to do my bit to help them in their
mission.
Next time when I see a child labor or
distressed street child I am going to
dial in 1098 and report it to them. Are
you all ready to do that???
Lova kiran
the countdown 10..9..8 hoping that
one day they would hit zero ("0") in
child labor. But unfortunately our authorities started countdown from other end like 8..9..10.. Which lead to
endless count of numbers and an endless wait to end child labor? I am go-
As I took a couple of
steps back, the national
colors I saw on those
clothes started to fade
off.……..
Testimonial
TCS Insurance Toastmasters Club!!!
F
irst of all it is a great initiative
by the organizers to conduct
meetings regularly apart from their
project work. I got inspired seeing
them, at least to attend the meetings
regularly.
Secondly, as the mission of Toastmasters goes by, this is definitely a platform to improve the communication
and leadership skills when it comes to
public speaking. And anyone practicing it with full enthusiasm can reap
the benefits.
My opinion, on the positive side, I
would say that, the evaluators did a
great part in providing evaluations/
feedback as part of the Toastmasters
culture. I would say that without eval-
uations a speaker cannot give a speech I would definitely recommend Toastbetter than his/her previous project,
masters to my project-mates. When I
besides attending meetings regularly. attended the first session I felt that I
can enhance my existing public speakAs for the areas of improvement, I feel
ing skills and take it up to a whole
sometimes meeting keeps on dragging
new level.
too long. I think that can be resolved
by commencing the meeting sharply The club is friendly and supportive.
at the stated time.
No matter what your skill level is, the
environment is not threatening. And
for the newcomers out there, you can
experience it all by yourself by just
attending one session as guest. It
hardly takes around one and half hour
and trust me, you wouldn‘t know how
it flew by.
TM Sailesh
TCS Insurance Toastmasters Club
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Why Join Toastmasters???
A
ll of us love to take
our career on an
increasing trend. There
will be no one in this
world who does not want
to augment his/her caTM Atchyuth
reer. But what does enhance mean? It is growing
from a solider to a commander in army, a clerk to a manager in a bank and from a teacher to a principal in a
school. At the end of the day, it is the course of a journey
we embark upon to transform our self from being led to
leading others. But it is easier said than done. After all it
is not as simple as changing the order of the words. The
skill set completely differs.
A leader needs to have skills like decision making, communicating, convincing etc. Unfortunately we don`t have
any class room teaching which helps us to hone these
skills. In our schools we were taught languages but not
communication. So we are in need of a school which
teaches these skills. Regrettably we don`t have any school
of that sort.
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Lets Learn!!!
An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters in either a
word or a phrase (using each letter exactly once in the
word or phrase created). Ideally the anagram created
relates in some (perhaps humorous) way to the original
word or phrase.
Mother-in-law
Woman Hitler
The earthquakes
That queer shake
Debit card
Bad credit
Slot machines
Cash lost in 'em
School master
The classroom
Eleven plus two
Twelve plus one
Dormitory
Dirty room
Snooze alarms
Alas! No more Zs
A decimal point
I'm a dot in place
Fir cones
Conifers
The eyes
They see
The public art galleries
Large picture halls, I bet
Election results
Lies – let's recount
The Hurricanes
These churn air
So is there any place to learn these skills?
Anagram Poem
If you ask Google this question, it says "Toastmasters International" within microseconds. So Toastmasters is one
of its kind which provides a platform to learn, improve
and master communication and leadership skills.
The tiny tot went: "When I eat I mess up."
The elder replied: "O, that makes two of us."
The Club provides each and every member an opportunity to stand up, open up their thoughts. It is a place where
we are allowed to make mistakes and learn from them.
To put it in a different manner it is a school which is going to teach the things which most of us missed during
our initial schooling. It`s a school which makes to learn a
lot rather than making us to memorize. So all those who
wish to climb the career ladder and have success
throughout the tenure join toastmasters to improve your
own skills, to have a better career. Importantly, skills cannot be cultivated overnight.
So what are you waiting for?
Contact the VP-Membership immediately to get your
membership and remember it`s never too late.
"I soil myself," went the tot with shame
And the elder added: "O, I do the same."
On the tot told him: "I sob a lot."
"O, not only you," answered gramps to the tot.
"And what's totally bad," the tiny tot told,
"I think mom and dad don't love me at all."
While grandpa simply, pitiably smiled,
then said: "O, I understand, my child."
- By Meyran Klaus
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Lets Learn!!! Continued…...
Common English Bloopers
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Time to laugh!!!!!
School Question
Real Friends
Mother: "Why are you home from school
so early?"
Two friends were standing in a bank
when a pair of robbers entered.
Son: "I was the only one who could answer a question."
Not only did the thieves clean out the
bank, but also they walked around
with bags and ordered everyone to
throw their valuables in.
Mother: "Oh, really? What was the question?"
Son: "Who threw the eraser at the principal?"
Just as the robbers got to the pair, one
of the friends turned to the other and,
passing him a bill, said,
"By the way, Joe, here's that twenty
bucks I owe you."
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Experience - The Chair
T
he word ―THE CHAIR‖ sounds very powerful, so were the ROLE and the
RESPONSIBILITIES.
Yes The Chair..
It was really exciting, interesting and surprising experience to play THE ROLE in the
International Speech and TT Contest. I share my experience on different aspects of
responsibilities I came across.
TM Prabhakar
The Chair– Intentional Speech and TT
Contest Club Level
On Planning:
Different people, different personalities, different moods and different schedules –
Uniting all under one roof for the event were really enterprising and challenging. Thus began the uphill process of planning.
On breakdowns and break trough's:
On Participants
Topics selected for International Speeches were awesome
and so as it for TT as well. Everyone had a nice time, enjoying the speeches.
Last minute dropouts were the key breakdown. However a breakthrough was made by having proper alternate
plans. As all were expected moves.
On Volunteers:
The first action item in the to-do list of the chair was
booking the conference room. It was done on priority.
On last moment, we found out that the room what we
booked was not the room we had planned for the event.
We had not cross checked on the venue. It was another
breakdown. It made the situation panicky. With the help
of volunteers, I made alternate arrangements to divert
the overwhelming, enthusiastic crowd to the new room.
All the heads had turned up. The hall was filled with
Toastmasters and Guests. Thus achieved our another
breakthrough
On being A CHAIR:
I got helping hand from many Toastmasters who were
working with me in parallel to make the event a success.
There was not even a single moment that I felt I was
alone. I always saw great minds working with me on their
best to make the event a success.
It was a great honor to be the chair for the International
Speech and Table Topics contest.
Being a chair had made me to organize a successful international event, believe in people, improve as an individual, never lose hope in spite of the tough situations and
motivate others by inspiring them.
On Judges:
Appointing judges was handed over to an efficient TM,
who did his best to pick the Chief Judge and got handful
of proficient judges for the event.
Having judges not knowing to the crowd was a challenge. But worked out and practiced well in such a way
that most of them could not make out who the judges
were.
On last moment, we found out that the
room what we booked was not the
room we had planned for the
event……..
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Happenings around the TM Corner’s
Winners — international speech Contest Club level
1st : TM Nivedita Rani
Nivedita and Karthik
2nd : TM Karthikeyan Bhoopathy
Winners — international table topics Contest club level
1st : TM Spoorti Natesh
represented our club in
Area level Speech contest
Spoorti and Navamsa
2nd : TM Navamsa
represented our club in
Area level Table Topics
contest
3rd : TM Karthikeyan Bhoopathy
Winners
Winners
international speech area g5 Contest
international Table topics area g5
Contest
1st : TM Gautam Sharma
1st : TM Gautam Sharma
2nd : TM Sundarraman Venkatraman
2nd : TM Gayathri
3rd : TM Diwakar
3rd : TM Sundarraman Venkatraman
SANGAMAm 2014
Division G conference
I am neither delivering a prepared speech nor an adhoc one, and then what is the need for me to attend the
contest???? Does this question hover‘s you mind???
Yes, It did hover my mind and I found out my answer..
I attend Contests to immerse myself in the pictures portrayed by speakers, to learn how I can make people lost
with my words, to explore how leaders and communicators are developed.
What are you waiting for??
Come and join us to witness an unforgettable war of words.
When : April 26, Saturday 8.30 AM
Where : Central Lecture Theatre, IITMadras, Chennai
Whom to Contact : [email protected]
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What Excomm has to share….
M
y duty to serve as a Sergeant at arms is to make sure that a session goes
very smoothly without any obstruction. It starts from basic step of
booking a room for session continues with having banner, trophies, timer cards
and all reports in place. The effort for making a session go successful is tremendous, and I feel happy when session goes smooth and when all the toastmasters
and guests are contented with the session. This satisfaction of serving the club
makes me proud and speechless.
TM Spoorti
SERGEANT AT ARM
I
TM Vaidyanathan
SECRETARY
had taken over as the Secretary of TCS Insurance Toastmasters club in July last
year and surprisingly got reelected this term as well. I had opted for this role as I
felt it would be less challenging but reality was different. The main requirement for the
role was to maintain club records, manage club files, handle club correspondence, and
take the minutes at each club and executive committee meeting. I also had another hidden agenda - To attract more seniors to the club. My biggest challenge is MOM preparation after each session and Excomm meeting and attracting more seniors. I could say
I had moderate success in both these key items and I hope in this tenure I am expecting
to do better and ensure our club flies high amongst various clubs of Chennai
T
TM Lakshmipriya
VICE PRESIDENT– PUBLIC RELATIONS
he word public relations, campaigns, promotions which were nightmares
when I joined toastmasters 2 years ago, now fancied and fascinated me to
contest for the role of VP-PR. My first act of propaganda began when I sent out a flyer
campaigning to elect me. The impressed club members chose me to promulgate the
TITMAS Club beyond the butterflies (Siruseri Campus). My experience as a PR has
been very interesting and it gave me a lot of learning, brought out the creativity in me
and induced the thirst to know more. Be it making the flyers, maintaining the website,
editing the newsletter, keeping the club active on social networking site, I enjoyed every bits and pieces of the PR activity. This role has helped to research me and re introduced me as a person whom I was never before. My sincere gratitude to the club for
helping me to come out of the cocoon and supporting me fly flapping my wings.
I
TM Sreehari
TREASURER
t was a great journey in Toastmasters as Treasurer. Our club has embraced me
by giving Treasurer role within two weeks of joining as Toastmaster. Journey as
Treasurer in last few weeks have been hectic with renewals going on. I had great
opportunity to personally meet and speak to most of the Toastmasters during renewal process. At the end it was really satisfying that we could meet Golden Gravel
requirement for retention of members. I am looking forward to contribute to the club
and put in some standards in Treasurer‘s shoes.
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What Excomm has to share…. Continued
M
ay 21st 2013 at 2.45 PM I have witnessed a show for an hour and a
half. My ears were enthralled by the words used in the story. My eyes
became wet with power of those emotional words. I laughed out loud by humor
created by the words. Those were the three speeches I witnessed in one show
and at that moment I decided to join Toastmasters. In the span of a week a suffix
was added to my name
From Varaprasad to TM Varaprasad.
By chance as a Vice President Education:
TM Varaprasad
VICE PRESIDENT EDUCATION
Within small span of time I contested for Vice President Membership. I was very
fortunate for not being elected at that moment because I was unaware of the nuances of roles and responsibilities of a
Club Officer. At the same time I was unfortunate for missing the designation of Vice President. Next 6 months passed
as 6 minutes and I got another chance. This time I have contested with full preparation, half knowledge and no plan. I
had given nomination for position of 3 roles and prepared campaign speech for VP Membership.
Truly talking I was aloof of the order the election is conducted. My thought was if I miss VP Membership, I can go and
try for VP Education. As the contest for President the one with highest role finished the call for second highest role VPE
was made and I was one of the nominees. I had to deliver my campaign speech for VPE but I had prepared for VPM,
that moment I managed and gave impromptu campaign speech for the role of VPE. To my surprise I was elected as the
Vice President Education of TITMAS Club
The management work as VPE started right from my campaign speech and is still continuing with my role and will
continue further. It taught me people management, work management, stress management most importantly time
management.
“Great things comes to you by chance not by choice”
-Varaprasad
W
hat could be more satisfying for a toastmaster like me than to be
leading a prestigious golden gavel club and carry forward its legacy?
Just a mere thought of being a president and serving the club is enough to excite
any Toastmaster and I am extremely proud and thankful to everyone who trusted me by giving this opportunity.
TM Karthikeyan
PRESIDENT
In this brief but eventful passage of learning and growing as a president of this
club, I had the luxury of being part of some wonderful team work by our dedicated Excomm team and fellow members in organizing the momentous second
anniversary celebration, speech contest, special events like CC1 marathon and
those wonderful sessions week after week.
I am sure this experience would help me improve myself and help others to
grow. I always believe that each one of us is a leader but not until we practice it
in the real world!! Toastmasters provide every bit of opportunity to groom the
leader in you and the Spirit of leadership is best felt when you serve as a club
officer in a Toastmaster club.
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What Excomm has to share…. Continued
S
ince ages communication between people have always been challenging
and effective communication is the most demanding. Toastmasters is a
platform to shape oneself in the way one have ever thought of. It is a launching
pad to become an effective communicator and a better leader. I have got an opportunity to serve the club as VP-Membership and to explore the talent within.
For the tenure I would like to gather interested folks to join Toastmasters family
and enrich themselves along with the club.
TM Akash
VICE PRESIDENT- MEMEBERSHIP
At Ease– Synonyms and Antonyms….. Answers
Antonyms
Ignore- Listen
Cloudy- Sunny
Male- Female
Tomorrow- Yesterday
Part- Whole
First- Last
Tight- Loose
Visible- Invisible
Synonyms
Locate- Find
Observe- Watch
Under- Below
Intelligent- Smart
Easy- Simple
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