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Leadership Reflection, Jan4, 2012, CHIC Toastmasters meeting Beijing |
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Dear CHICer,
17 months ago, I came to CHIC to be a brave English Speaker. Several months this before this meeting I lost my bravery. Tonight, in the 1st meeting in the 2012, I try to find it from all of you and also myself.
Dancy, our SAA, you have the brave to break though yourself. Every week you try your best to improve your service and the agenda. You do great effort to make the audience comfortable. Thanks for your extraordinary job every week.
Vivian.Li, our Toastmaster tonight, recently, I found you begin opening your mind to CHIC to all kindly and sincere member. I can feel your love to us and your bravery to challenge your- self. I am also grateful for your taking me back home! Toastmasters Spirit!
Ninan, our Toastmaster timer, you do a good timer job tonight even this is your 1st role take in CHIC. You voice is so graceful and magnetic. You have the potential to be a great speaker, expecting your Ice breaking speech.
Rita, our greeter, just as what you said in your touched application, you show your passionation and determination to change your life. You are brave and warmhearted girl. We love you so much not only your try your best to do everything, but also we can feel your love to CHICers deeply.
Derek, TTM tonight, I know you begin to pay more attention to your leadership skill. You devote yourself to CHIC now and take more responsibility in our club now. If you do your best and challenge yourself every time, you will grow fast.
Andrew, TTEV, you are more mature now, more confident and nature on the stage. I like your honest words and your unpretentious way doing everything.
Yolanda, Ah-counter, you are so smart; you always can got the key points of every work. It's show you can be a great leader in future. Every time you give a special effective and impressive feedback to us. "Try to speak slowly and peacefully, then you will not need to say so much unnecessary words, Ah, en, so, & The!"
Xiuhua, our VPM, you bring happy and warm atmosphere to CHIC meeting. We can feel your positive influence even you never take any role and just enjoy yourself in the meeting.
Lorraine, I like your laugh it like a princess silver-colored bell. We are so fortunately can here it often. Hope you will take a role next week because we look forward to you sharp and creative opinion for a long time.
Jennifer, our GE, your performance just like a diamond on a crown. We need you too much if we hope to keep the rise trend in CHIC. You are a totally toastmaster, you always show us the way to effort.
Tim, I love your way to explain a topic so clearly and briefly. That shows your great communication skills. Hope someone will build their brand in 3 month following your suggestion. The most fashionable Toastmasters
Lisa, my hero, it's a kind of happiness listen to you tell story. You always can tell a common story to a wonderful one.
Finally, feedback to myself, "Mr Gale, you begin to get back your bravery in the 1st meeting of 2012. I do hope your will be a brave English Speaker anytime and anywhere".
Good night!
Best,
Gale
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Leadership Reflection, Dec28, 2011, Toastmasters Meeting, Beijing |
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Written by Hubert
Creative. Humorous. Imaginative. Powerful and WOW! This is why Beijing rocks!
Slowly, we are injecting more WOW factor into our Toastmasters meetings, thanks to the wonderful preparation, performance, and new elements that you have all brought to the table.
Tim: What a great job as a first time Toastmaster! I’m sure everyone is cheering when they hear that you are going to be a committed member of CHIC. As a founder, I have always hoped, but honestly disappointed, when you came once and then disappeared. After you showed up a few times last month, I still expected that you would disappear again. But this time, hearing your resolution, my hope has returned, and I have high expectations for and of you. There is obvious so much you can bring us: not only your experienced communication skills, but also your humor. I also have no doubt that you will learn a lot by participating more.
Rita: Thanks for the creative use of music to substitute the bell. Music is beautiful, but we can also be assertive and firm in its use. I look forward to seeing it being used in the future. You can still do better as a timer, when introducing the timing rules, and delivering a report (you didn’t do it). I want you to take the next available timer role, to make an immediate improvement.
Ceci: nice to have you back as the ah-counter. It was so obvious that your enthusiasm was a notch higher tonight. And it was infectious. Too bad you’ll be on a business trip again. I want to encourage you to find ways to connect with the club even when you’re away, even when you’re preparing for a test, even when you’re so busy with work. There are ways to show that you still care, even when you’re not with us.
Jeff: Thanks for taking the Greeter role on behalf of Lawrence. And I want to say how wonderful it was to see you send out the follow up email to the guests immediately after the meeting. See how good you are? See how much you can teach others? You are a treasure. I would like to see more even more warmth in your approach. Perhaps this area of improvement can really make an impact in your life. Maybe. Give it a thought.
Coco: You are funny. Yes you are. Definitely. We all have low standards? LOL! And more talkative now. And more confident. Amazing how you are transforming before our eyes.
Ludivine: You and Yucheng are a match made in heaven. You both have so much knowledge to share. I know that you don’t feel good with your speech tonight. But I want to encourage you to find the golden nuggets in your speech, as I had. There’s some good content in there. If you can just pull it together under a very focused theme/message, to guide our thinking, then that knowledge would be more useful, and maybe you would feel more confident in what you have to share. Continue to share with us. And I have no doubt, the structure and the delivery will improve with practice.
Gale: When normal people exercise, sweat come out of our pores. When you work out, you sweat passion. Keep it coming. Infect everyone with it. Channel it with the compassion for others. Just one thing: I wished you had shared more of your personal story.
Vivian: Continue to bring your creativity to the meeting. I loved the game. I loved your 痔疮 pillow. In the past 2 weeks, you have shown more progress than the past 3 months. Unless I am crazy, I think you’re really trying harder than before.
Crystal: You also did something different with your evaluation. I noticed. Whenever there is something new, people notice. Stay with us.
For our evaluators: Andrew: What smile we have to see that you are finally taking your first steps. Trying even more evaluations. Terrific. Don’t stop. If you want to become a better evaluator, keep evaluating. Keep listening. And believe that you can be as good as Lisa and Yucheng.
For Yucheng and Lisa: Well, you know you’re good. Yes you are. Now, how can you be even better? How can you also inject creative elements into your role, no matter what it is? Challenge yourself, and don’t let it become too easy.
Joyce, the Oscar-winning Toastmasters GE: Now we’re talking. Too bad you will be taking business trips again in January. Just after you jumped to a new level of expertise. I totally love the whole ‘director’ metaphor bit. If you could even milk even more out of that metaphor, the better. For example, bring more prop. Bring an ‘oscar award’; etc. And when you are away, please also see the comments I have for Ceci.
Melody: The play with your name was funny. Really. I think you can get even more jokes out of it. You could have switched names with me! See how that works? But I didn’t really understand the part about Tim though. You will need to explain to me next time. Don’t ever say to yourself that you can’t be funny. Putting a limit on yourself doesn’t help.
By the way…I would like to have a “DJ”, someone in charge of the music composition that we can use for our meeting. Music seems to bring a WOW factor if we can use it correctly. Who is interested? And I assume Rita is now our official CHIC photographer? Thanks Rita.
Dare to be different. Dare to try something new. That is the charge I want to give to everyone.
We can make this the place to be in Beijing every Wednesday evenings |
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Leadership Reflection of Meeting Dec 21, 2011 |
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Dear Chicers,
We did a great job last evening making our meeting a happy Xmas and New Year party!
Thank you logistic team for handing our agenda/EV form, decorating our house, for preparing snacks and drink for guests and people. I guess the team includes Hubert, Dancy, Coco and Melody
Hubert, thank you for dressing yourself as Santa Clause with twins ties and lead the logistics team to create Xmas atmosphere. As always, you encourage each speaker with your loud laugh and big applause. Your twins ties is a creative idea, even though you are fined 500 US$. I will follow your practice when appropriate. Actually I believe mimicking other people’s creative idea improve my creativity.
Yolanda, Coco and Melody, you 3 guys grow very fast in CHIC in the past a few months. And indeed you contribute a lot to CHIC. I still remembered the impression you gave me after one meeting a few months ago when we talked about something about happiness. Yolanda read lots of books and good at analyzing. Coco has unique thinking. Melody is a happy bird. At that time, I believe you will be the future of CHIC. And in meeting yesterday, you demonstrated your capability in 3 key roles of the meeting: TTM, GE and Toastmaster. Bravo! You are pillars of the meeting and you are pillars of CHIC.
Yolanda evaluated Gales speech by drawing a graph and analyzing how to make humor with expectation. I believe studying how to make humor is very important in our CHIC because we boast we are a humor club. I think we guys should attach importance to study and share how to make humor.
Coco is really humorous, wise and quick thinking. I see another Jennifer on the stage. You are classmates. Does your class major in Humor in your University? GE role is not easy and you handle it like a piece of cake. And you are quick thinker, you even think more quickly than quick-thinking Yucheng during your GE eveluation.
Melody is a happy bird. You always bring shining smile and wonderful gifts to us. You are always willing to help people, which touched me. Great job as Toastmaster and great topic gift. I envy your skills to choose creative gift.
Liu Xia, I noticed you replaced Cecilia to be the timer. You did great job controlling time. I am sorry that I used more time than allocated, because there are some many first-time guests. Do not worry your dinging me challenges me. I am a man of thick face and broad chest, and thus will not take things personally. I noticed recently you look a little bit nervous on the stage. But before, you are very confident on the stage. Please find the root cause and conquer your nervousness. You are an excellent speaker on the stage.
Rita, thank you for being camera guy in the meeting and in goodbye party for Charlie + Ivy. Yesterday you performed much better than your application speech. You are talented and motivated lady. Your English is pretty good in your application form. Spoken English is much easier than written English. You commands excellent written English and you will command excellent spoken English if only your keep taking roles and conquer your stage fright. Believe who you are, you will be a shining star. I am looking forward to your speech about music and teeth in which domain you are experts.
Lawrence, excellent and creative performance in table topic session. And glad that you attended meeting even without Jessie. You used to attend meeting because Jessi attend it. Now you can attend all by yourself. Thanks for give us 5 people a ride to Xi Dan. It is very kind of you. And you are creative and knowledgeable guy. You have not yet demonstrate your capability to full extent. You need more stage time to show your power of being a Leo.
George, as I said yesterday, your speech is full of humor and culture of your own style. Congratulations to your first speech. It would be nice if you can deliver a speech on a monthly basis and take roles in every meeting. I am sure you will share with us more of your humor and wisdom. You are the steel man of our club.
Michael, you have make big progress to be confident on the stage. You speech is for us, but also for yourself to be more confident. From your speeches, I see your power and potential to be a great speaker. Hope you can win a VP position in next term. But before that, you can help with Scheduler and Sergeant at Arms. You will learn a lot in these positions and will pave the way to be VP next term.
Crystal, great job! Nice topics making us think the meaning of gifts and giving gifts to our parents and family to show our love. As table topic master, you can tailor a topic for the speaker. For guys who are single or not married, you can change a topic to them to make the first time speaker feel easier to deliver a speech.
Derek, my buddy, great job as the evaluator. I am glad to notice that you frequently take roles in every meeting. And you are active to consult with people to improve your speaking and evaluation skills. Keep going and you will be a great speaker.
Lisa, great evaluator. I understand what is cool, calm and collected when you are on the stage. Your evaluation is really constructive. I noticed that your looks more shining than before. Is this because you have a dog with you? It said that having pet can make a person more healthy and live longer.
Jon, smart and playful boy, you are blessed genius, being yourself with humor, creativity and inner peace. Thank you for creating the wonderful CHIC web for us, this is professionalism. I am sorry that you have to slow down in front of a group of non-native speaker ?.
Tim, handsome and charming fashion policeman. You did great job as joke master, the most difficult role in the meeting. Have Hubert paid 500 US$ to you? You are an elegant gentleman with suits in the meeting and the steel man on your motorcycle. As 7-wolf advertisement said, man should have different dimensions, you are the excellent example. Glad that you come back to us recently, many Chicer doubt you are a Chicer ?.
Ludivine, you did not take a role in the meeting. You need conquer your fear to take roles in every meeting. Hurry up! I agreed that watching is also helpful but learning by doing is the quickest way to grow in the club. Being a big sister in the club, you should learn a lot from youger sisters like Yolanda, Coco and Melody who practice a lot and grow fast in CHIC.
Yucheng, you are a good CHIC firefighter in the meeting. On the way to the meeting, Gale asked you to be the Greeter because Lawrence was caught in the traffic jam. You accept it and bring fortune to honored guests with your magic microphone – a scallion. After the meeting, Hubert asked you to be the leadership evaluation writer because Jessi cannot make the meeting. You accepted and take 2 hours still writing it now in office. What a coincidence, I backfill a couple to take 2 roles in the same single meeting :-)
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to Chicers and Chicer families!
Yucheng |
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Leadership Reflection of Meeting Dec 14, 2011 |
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Dear members,
We all know TM can improve our leadership skill, but maybe we don't know how to do. The Leadership reflection is one important way.
Michael, Happy birthday to U, Michael! You are the host of tonight meeting; it's just like a party hold in your house. We can feel your love and your sincere feeling. As a TM, you are inspiring us in your special way and in your special day.
Gale, as the timer of tonight, is also expecting to give more help to improve the time management of our meeting and every speaker.
I still hope everyone will remember this TimeLine I show you when you deliver your speech.
Start_______________GreenCard___ ___YellowCard______Redcard____Bell------
I also used many skills about time management of PM in the meeting, such as "critical path", "Schedule Compression" and "Mile stone". I hope to share these with you soon.
Dancy, I have to say you really show great leadership skills in the greeting session, help every guest to deliver a clear and effective introduction. I think you do so well because you prepare more for the role and do many nice & detail job before the beginning of the meeting. You are a great greeter tonight!
Vivian, you know I'm so happy to see U. You give more help to us and you do enjoy your A-Counter job. You are more confident and persuasive after a little long time to take the role again. Hope to share more your improvements in the past days.
Xiuhua, you still show your great leadership even in your speech. What's the problem? Why we need to solve it? How to do? You use a memerable word "SPERD" to make your point easier to understand and easier to follow. Very helpful!
Ludivine, your three key words of how to "Live in present", "Live in present"-"Change yourself"-"Accept yourself". It's so impressive. Maybe we couldn't change the fate and the world, but we can change ourselves and accept them.
Lisa, 8'59'', you are a best mode of time control. I know you can do great job but I never imagine you can do it so miraculous. I also hope to be a "little gale" of you not a "little girl" of Lorraine!
Coco, you give very good feedback to the TT speakers. I learned you try to help people to improve their unprepared speaking skill not only host a TT session. Smart way!
Charlie, our president, we love your EV, motivating and inspiring so much. We can’t help tear downing for a long time couldn't hear that. Hope to get your inspiring from Weibo and email often.
Tim, a guy has fashionable dress and gives classical TM evaluation. We enjoy your representation very much. I guess many members hope to get you suggestions about fashion, about speaking, about creativity.
Alpha, you give so honest and friendly feedback to Ludivine. It's your way, drect, efective and sincere.
Jeff, maybe the perfect evaluator to Lisa tonight should be kids like my son Mumu. But you also give the feedback from an audience view not an evaluator view. That's great. "Audience is the best teacher to a story teller."
Derek, TT EV is the second challenging job in CHIC meeting (Joke master is 1st the place.) You are a good listener. Catch the key idea of each TT speaker is real too hard. But you do it tonight. It's the first great step to a great EV. I know you hope to improve your leadership now. Congratulations, you are on your way.
Lorraine, our Joke master tonight, I like your imagination and contact to many thing happened in the meeting. It's really funny and we enjoy it. If you lose your script, I believe all the audience will laugh loudly from the beginning to the end.
Rita, it's a special day for you. You are a TM now, you are one of us CHIC family now. Believe yourself; you can do good job as Charlie, Ivy, Jennifer.... after you give your best efforts.
Every night, we can feel our CHIC are growing. It's come from the hard work each of you, our fellow members. Let's get along together! Let's grow together!
Best,
Gale |
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