Shanghai People's Square ToastMasters Club

  Every person has motivations to do whatever they like. In this evening, what they like was coming to People Square Toastmasters Club! There came a lot of members and guests with different motivations. Some were motivated by their passion to listen to different stories, like me; Some came here because they were motivated by their peer, like Ben’s six friends; Some people were motivated by their responsibility as officers to improve the wellbeing of Toastmasters Club in Shanghai region, like our senior guest, Samuel, to name just a few.

  In “Special Sharing” session, as motivated by his desire to improve the wellbeing of People Square Toastmasters Club, Samuel shared with us his “Standard Operation Process” in global toastmasters club in which he redefined different responsibilities of different role takers and pointed out several aspects that we can do better. The enlightening session has shifted our focus to the front line(speakers) to the backend organizers(officers) and provided us with many tips to better organize our meetings! With his help, we believe we will take a step forward on the way of self-improvement and perfection!

  Two speakers, with such a sharp contrast in terms of their mode of thinking, style as well as contents delivered C1 and C3 speeches respectively. Oscar, the king of the evening, shared with his male peers quite a few tips on how to chase a girl, how to maintain a positive and stable harmounious relations between each other in a “high” way. His “high” spirit induced laughters everywhere in the meeting room and earned him the best speaker in the evening! While Joy, a very tender lady, lectured on “Pyramid Principle” which I happened to read several month ago. She used “Elevator Test” introducing the “MECE” principle(mutually exclusive, completely exhaustive) which is proposed by McKinsey and widely used in consulting field. We all listened to her tentatively with full contentration and curiosity and after her speech, I have been able to use a more logical way to express myself.

  ”Table Topic” session is always the most popular session as it always attacts a lot of guests to participate. This time was not an exception, too! Six members and guests actively set themselves on the stage and performed a wonderful show!

  The meeting ended with contentment and pleasure as we not only learned how to deal with relations and how to sell proposal with “MECE” principle, we also attracted two more new members(Oscar Kwun and Megan Peng) to our club by “Law of Attraction”!

  Let us welcome Oscar Kwun and Megan Peng again and wish them all the best in the club!

 The theme of 6th, April’s meeting was “Moment” and luckily we enjoyed every MOMENT of the evening, from the opening to the end. More than 40 memebers and guests took time out of their very busy schedule to make it, creating the most passionate body. We not only listened, spoke, laughed, but more importantly, we shared with each other our feeling, our story and even our single status! Haha, it is a magical place where you even can possiblely meet Mr./Miss Right.

  Life is composed of moments, no matter it is a happy moment or a frustrated moment, no matter it is a satisfying moment or a disappointing moment, no matter it is touching moment or angry moment, they all have accompanied our growth and make us better ladies and gentlemen.

  All the three speeches are provoking and educational. Neil talked about his conquer of Music and how that shaped his value “Champion is from hard practice”. Samuel used “80/20 Rules” introducing his story with Toastmasters and his family which has made everybody touched. Matthew is a born public speaker in that he integrated our theme to his speech perfectly by encouraging us to write down every moment that we have positive feelings.

  In the evening, however, I personally love the “Table Topic” session best because I love playing games with uncertainty. Everyone was a fast responder and used their creativity illustrating the special moments in their lives!

  Again, we all felt so blessed and that was a happy ending for all!

两年前，在MSD初识TOASTMASTERS，那时的我大学刚毕业，勇往直前，一口气在三个月不到的时间里完成了C3 speech，担任了Toastmasters of the Noon, Table Topic Master，SAA等一种角色，非常喜欢在台上的感觉，因为自信，因为懵懂；瞬间，两年过去了，重新加入TOASTMASTERS，是因为自己心中还有梦，还有激情，在几次人民广场TMC的聚会中重新找到了久违的感动，发现这是一个可以让我的生活内容更加丰富，宽度也更广的地方。在这里，没有老板，没有办公室，没有工作，有的是分享和互相支持的温暖，这种温暖让我心中的太阳再度缓缓升起……

Everything in this meeting was excellent. TME, guests, audience, speakers, evaluators used every opportunity to show their dedication and commitment to helping the club members to achieve excellence which creates the benchmark club in Shanghai! 

   TME used humourous and entertaining language usage and gestures pushed the atmosphere to a climax.

   ”Special Sharing” from Marc Hong was focues on ”Law of Attraction” to tell us a magic which is “I attract to myself, my life and business, whatever I give my attentionm energy and focus to, whether negative or positive.” It was such a coincidence that I read a few books on this topic and I think it works!

    C1 speaker, the new comer, Phoenix Feng shared with us his true personal stories which is really encouraging. He told us never give up, no matter what the situation is.

    C3 speaker, Cynthia Chen, made her C3 speech again! A touching story of her. She finally got what she wanted! Congratulations!

    C4 speaker, the immediate past President, Spike Gu, acted as a professor in Philosophy and proposed a series of questions to make us make a decision in dilemmas. It is the most inspiring and provoking for me in the evening. I personally love it best!

    Each evaluator voiced his/her opinions and gave valuable advice and suggestions to speakers, benefiting each one in the meeting.

    Thanks a lot! PSTMC! It was my first day joinging in and you offered me such a great opportunity to convey my happiness to all those who care about us and are interested in us. 

    PSTMC, we will make it happen!

“No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may
seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will
lead us to better things.”
— Channing Pollock