Speechcraft Workshop Session 4 October 22, 2011

We would like to thank speechcraft participants for your participation in our concluding session last Saturday. Of course, this is not the end. You are cordially invited to join us as special guests for our regular Toastmasters meeting this coming Saturday, October 29th at 9 am.

We certainly had a great and fun time and Cheng Kok Beng led off with an Icebreaker which required everyone to relate a joke or interesting story. Our chief trainer DTM Richard Sng then covered the topic “Evaluate to Motivate” and then we had three speeches from our new Toastmasters who joined the Speechcraft workshop. With the theme of evaluation, we then had Terry Teng present a demo speech on Vocal Variety and she held everyone enthralled with her rendition of “My Wedding”. Speecdhcrafters then provided group feedback and evaluation on Terry’s speech.

Andrew Chew next came back with more on “Show What You Mean” and had Speechcrafters talk and act out with his bowling pin prop. Next, Flex Tio ably facilitated a Table Topics session with “Show What You Mean” as a theme with questions literally picked out from his hat. Trainer Patrick Sehoo did a competent Language Evaluation and then the organizer led the three trainers present to tackle questions from Speechcrafters.
Here were the winners:

1. Best Table Topics Speaker – Prisca Chong. Runner-up – Clarence Cheong
2. Best Prepared Speech – Foo Kok Jin
3. Best Introducers – Foo Kok Jin
4. Best Evaluator – Shahul Nilar

We also asked each of you to respond to a survey at the end and here is a summary of your responses:

1. Overall rating of Speechcraft Workshop (1=Poor 5=Excellent) 4.77
2. Most enjoyable workshop session: Sessions 2,3 and 4 (tie)
3. Most beneficial workshop session: Session 2 with Session 1 close behind
4. Overall rating of Speechcraft organization (1=Poor 5=Excellent) 4.77
5. Overall rating of Trainers effectiveness (1=Poor 5=Excellent) 4.85
6. Favorite trainers: Andrew Chew and Richard Sng
7. Would you recommend your friends to attend this workshop? (1=Unlikely 5=Definitely) 4.69
8. Are you interested to join Toastmasters? Yes 69.2%, Undecided 30.8%

And finally, here are some photos from this session, taken by Andrew Chew himself. Thanks Andrew!