Raintree Toastmasters

Workshop: How To Polish Your Inner Charming Voice!

Posted by Raintree Admin
August 13, 2008

Hi there, this coming saturday, Raintree Toastmasters is conducting a workshop … details below.

In case you can’t make it for this workshop, our next Toastmasters meeting is on 1st September, monday, 7PM. In case of any questions, please contact Kit (printforu@gmail.com) or Ming Chern (ming@risingimstar.com).

Workshop Name: How To Polish Your Inner Charming Voice

Venue & Timing: Saturday, 16th August 2008. 10AM. Adam Khoo Learning Centre at Hoe Chiang Road (Keppel Towers, next to Amara Hotel, at Tanjong Pagar).

How To Register: Email Kit Tay (Vice President Membership of Raintree Toastmasters) at printforu@gmail.com

Workshop Contents: Year after year, when audiences at workshops are polled about what would make or break a presentation - the most important factor they consider is voice. Subconsciously, your audience is always judging you on criteria like shrillness, charm, variety, volume and that ever mysterious criteria called charm.

And while most speakers spend days polishing up the content & words in their speech, and hours looking at themselves in the mirror, they neglect to look at that skill known in Toastmasters as vocal variety. This saturday, we’re going to stop leaving things to chance and bring out your most charming voice from deep within so you can entertain, humor and seduce your audience in your next presentation.

This will be a very hands-on workshop - you will get to hear and fix your most important vocal flaws. At the same time, you’ll get to learn:

How to automatically speak at the right volume depending on your group
When to use your rounded voice, and when to use an excited shrill voice
Hypnotizing people with the tone of your voice so that persuasion becomes a snap
How to vary your pace of speaking to seem more knowledgable
The elements of a humorous vocal performance
How to identify and instantly fix your most glaring vocal flaws
… And many more techniques that will make your next presentation so much more powerful !

Speaker Profile: Your host for this wildly entertaining session will be a horizontally challenged gentleman going by the slightly unpronouncable name of Rachit Dayal. By day, Rachit is a consultant and trainer who is forced to charm business owners into giving him vast amounts of money. All that money of course, goes towards his after-dark profession of being a hypnotic superhero. Being a super hero AND a hypnotist while hiding his true identity is a tough job - and so Rachit is forced to practice the art of masking his voice to protect his loved ones. And as a superhero his volume needs to be loud enough to tell people to escape the city. (He is also an addicted Toastmaster who is currently the Division U Secretary, Asst Div U Gov of Education & Training and the Immediate Past President of Raintree Toastmasters).

Pricing etc: The workshop is free for Raintree Toastmasters. For guests, if you register on or before 15th August, the price is S$12. If you register on that day, the price is $25. And if you end up joining Raintree, your fees will be deducted from your annual dues.

You should bring: If possible please bring a computer and a pair of headphones. If it is not possible, please bring an apology note from your mom and a guilty look on your face.

Register now : Email Kit Tay (Vice President Membership of Raintree Toastmasters) at printforu@gmail.com. Then someone from the Raintree team will get back to you to confirm your spot.

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Experiences from the August 4th Meeting

Posted by Raintree Admin
August 5, 2008

Dolly Yeo, Raintree’s most experienced Toastmaster shares her experience in August’s 1st formal meeting on 4th August (monday)

Hi President Tim & dear members

For those who missed this interesting meeting, I would like to share my experience.

For those who don’t know, a lot of preparation has gone into getting the program up and going. Great job Ming Chern! & the EXCO. We miss you Mavis.

Thank you very much for your encouragements for my Advance Project 1 “Straight Talk”.

I sat upright on a chair with a desk and a camera right in front of me. My presentation was flashed onto the wall behind me. This interesting project is a 3 mins. editorial where I talk straight into the camera, subtly looking into my notes like a newsreader in the T.V.

I do research on an issue that is current, give my opinion. With only 3 mins to put my message across I had to be succinct and specific. Thanks to the very attentive Brian the timer whom make sure I know when to stop….he was more anxious than me…. helpful and mindful – thanks!

I enjoyed our Immed. Past President Rachit’s evaluation using the same sitting position and looking into the camera as well. Looking at him and listening to his evaluation, gave me a fresh perspective of what I could do better. You are great! Always so spontaneous and creative. Senior member like me needs a lot of encouragements too! Thank you Rachit

President Tim gave a colourful mind mapping workshop and it is a fantastic refresher for me. We had so much fun when she told her stories……again…..

As if not enough, Ben had stories to tell too……on the spot - for his Advance Project, more colourful.

Guests cleaned up the table topics hidden by Irene in a black bag, the environment was cleaned up in a jiffy … Our new member Mayank went home with the Best Prepared Speech ribbon! Well done!

Next month I will be doing a talk show as a guest and Rachit the Host! Come on down members!

Thanks!
Dolly Yeo

www.mindset-coaching.com

From Rachit, Immediate Past President - Just a quick note, after the meeting some of us got into a car and drove around the city looking for food and drinks. That was followed by two more hours of eating, drinking and being merry - thanks to Ben for buying dinner for the hungry souls, Ming Chern for driving us around and Brian, Janjaree & Tim for their company!

And thanks to Dolly, our members and our guests for dropping by and making the evening so much fun! I had just flown in that morning from a long trip, but the meeting made my jetlag disappear!

Our next meeting is on 16th August and there’s going to be a training on voice, vocal variety & control by me (Rachit) … the workshop and the rest of the meeting is free for members … for non-members, please contact Ming Chern (ming@risingimstar.com) to reserve your place!