The evening's event included an important session about the global financial crisis we are currently facing. The facilitator for the discussion was Low Yat Seow, DTM and three panels were invited to share their opinions and advice with all of us who were present. The three panels were the under the spotlight for the evening - Mr.Benjamin Looi, Mr.Mohd Abdullah, Mr. Wong Kah Ting.They answered 4-5 questions each regarding the global financial crisis and boy,was it an interesting session.Even as students, we got ourselves hooked, wondering if we will be able to survive right after graduation or will we be able to commit with any liabilities in future and when will this recession finally be over...
Right after the break, 3 impressive speakers entertained us with their speeches. The first speaker was SK Khor, TM whose speech title was "Speak Right to Stay Alive". His speech is a tip or two for us to learn about communicating our thoughts with the boss. He elaborated on three important points, "Speak to Death", "Silence to Death" and "Speak Right to Stay Alive".All these points lead to an important action - observation comes before action.By making the audience laugh with his genuine anecdote,he also taught us that observation is crucial before we take any action.
The next speaker came up with a cheerful smile and immediately made us laugh from the beginning of his speech till the very last words of his story. "Talking to Women", a title that stirs curiousity in every men's mind and every women's heart.Kenneth Shee, TM shared with the audience his fair share of miscommunications with the women who were present in his life.Though he loves women affectionately and passionately,he told the audience his frustrations of understanding the mechanisms of a woman's mind.After making us laugh,closed to tearing he told us till today,he has not a single clue about the mysterious woman mind.
The last but not the least,it was Pooyan,TM who was also our guest speaker from NLP toastmasters club.His title for his 7th speech was "Leaders in Denial".Pooyan immediately relate each and everyone of the audience into his speech with an opening of questions -"Have we ever been challenged? Have we ever deny something that is happening?" The stage of denial exists in human beings, as told by Sigmund Freud as he,himself was in denial when he knows smoking will eventually kill him. The speaker gave us more information about other world leaders like Henry Ford, the automobile master in the 1920s who denied to improve the "T Model" vehicle, George Bush who was in denial when the nation decided to not vote for him and all these leaders were once successful but fail to accept challenged in the right manner. As a closing,Pooyan gave a thought to ponder upon - to deny or not to deny?
The evaluation session was top-notched,professionally handled and audiences were also given a change to evaluate the speakers or rather give a suggestion or two regarding the speakers' speech or style etc.It was a great experience for us from UNITAR Toastmasters Club.
Well,well...We enjoyed, we learned and we were inspired! Therefore,UNITAR Toastmasters would like to thank D'Utama Advanced Club for having us in their meeting =)
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