Category: Meetings
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Meeting – Black History Month
Feb 5 2025 Word of the Day: Impartial Andrea gave her icebreaker speech titled “From Fear to the Front of the Room”. She shared her journey overcoming public speaking anxiety, recalling a traumatic middle school experience with guitar performance. Realizing public speaking was a barrier, she took a leadership role during the pandemic, organizing an…
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Meeting – Evaluation Workshop
Jan 22 2025 Last meeting, Abhijeet led an Evaluation Workshop with the key take-aways: lead with radical candor, use I-statements, and feedback is an opinion with a “why.” Then Jian gave her speech on how taking initiative, understanding people’s motivations, and asking for help strategically empowered her to lead effectively even without formal authority. Our…
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Meeting – Winter Wonders
Jan 15 2025 Word of the Day: Frigid Kirti gave her speech titled “Dirty Dishes, Clean Communication”. She spoke about how indirect communication with the people in our lives can lead to misunderstandings and frustration, whereas direct communication allows both parties to share their thoughts and understand each other’s perspectives. She also shared a personal…
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Meeting – Renew & Restart
Jan 8 2025 Happy 2025 everyone!! For this meeting there were speeches, so we had extended table topics that Sarah led. She asked people to share what they did over the holiday and challenged others to show off their listening skills by recapitulating. She also asked people to act out what they did for the…
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Meeting – Make Merry
Dec 16 2024 Jian presented her speech “3-Step Approach to Building Your Personal Brand” to us for the second time, incorporating the feedback she got her first time around. Preetha gave her speech called “Mission Possible – Protecting My Sanity!” She described planning, organizing, and implementing a project involving three university teams and a community…
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Meeting – Simple Pleasures
Dec 11 2024 Ramya gave us a fascinating presentation on how we fit the QWERTY keyboard on the tiny smart phone screen Akila gave an informative speech on wokeism and how to merge the divide with a more mindful woke mindset TTM Eduardo prompted us to speak about the simple pleasures of life, like candles,…
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Meeting – Sweet Anticipation
Dec 4 2024 Word of the Day: Festive Madilyn gave her Icebreaker speech titled “Greentech Renewables San Jose Business Overview”. She introduced herself and her background, dove into the business she manages, and went over goals from last year and her new ones for this year. Eduardo gave his speech titled “My Hobbies and Environment”.…
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Meeting – Independence
Nov 13 2024 In theme with “Independence” (especially for women), Kirti kicked us off with a leader profile about Savitrabai Phule, India’s first female teacher who opened a school for girls despite great opposition. Our meeting featured a panel discussion by Preetha Menon, who asked questions such as “How do you cultivate independence in your…
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Meeting – Interview/Moments of Truth
Nov 6 2024 We had a special structure today, starting with an interview with Abhijeet, who is running for International Director of Toastmasters. Key issues discussed were financial difficulties post-pandemic and member engagement. Proposed solutions included leveraging a subscription model for convention recordings and creating corporate training programs. Next we had “Moments of Truth,” a…
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Meeting – Halloween/Diwali
Oct 30 2024 Yiming gave his ice breaker about his love for soccer and the strategy of the game. Linda gave a fun but serious personal story that inspired us to “just say sorry” and take ownership of our mistakes. Patrice led Table Topics along the theme of Diwali and Halloween, asking us to describe…
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