Think Outside the Box



How innovative are you?  As shared by our VPE during the recent meeting, with Industry 4.0 in full swing, being innovative and doing things outside the norm is very important to ensure you stay competitive.

Otherwise, you could one day potentially, find yourself being replaced by robots.

Going round the table during introductions, it was clear that our participants for the night have very creative ways to think outside the box in their daily lives.

And with only one speaker attempting the prepared speech for the night, we had to think outside the box to give value to our participants by asking or own professional speaker, Hayley James to conduct a mini seminar.

Hayley conducting her seminar on "How to Enhance your Stage Presence"

Hayley's seminar was all about enhancing your stage presence.  She started off by walking the audience through her process of getting everyone's attention to focus on her.  Then once she has everyone's undivided attention, does she delve into her content.

Key highlights for her seminar were the 4 ways audiences take in a speech.  Once a speaker understands these 4 ways, they would be able to tailor their speech so that there is something for everyone.

Our only speaker for the night, Sarmuel Ang did Project 2 of his Pathways Level 1.  His speech called "Three Things I Need in My Life" was a riveting tale of the things that keep his passion in pursuit of his dreams alive.

Sarmuel also attempted Table Topics Master for the night with real questions that were asked by the airlines to their new crew members.  These questions are designed to assess the candidates' ability to think on their feet and make quick decisions, according to Sarmuel.

Group shot for the night.  Honored to have Area S1 Director, Lau Zhe Yan
visiting us together with Johnson Yeap from Motorola Toastmasters Club

If you would like to learn effective communication skills and leadership skills that you can put in practice immediately, join us for our bi-monthly meetings on every 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the month.  Please refer to our Next Meeting page for information on our next meeting or contact us directly to see how we can help you achieve your goals.

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