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Club Number:3560488, District 82, Area I3

Amplify Boost your impact Whether starting a new role, taking on a new project or simply looking to increase your profile, there are lots of factors beyond your direct control that will influence your success. However, one critical element within your direct control is the investment you make in building productive relationships at work, whether with your boss, other senior stakeholders or former peers you now need to lead. So what are five actions you can take today to build better relationships at work? 1. Take time - when you take on a new role or new responsibilities, your network will need to change, as will relationships within your existing network. 2. Take responsibility for building new relationships – you need to flex your own style to suit 3. Identify what is important – focus on what matters and identify the three things that are critical, then tailor your communication around them. 4. Pay attention – be aware of how information and feedback about you will get back to your boss or others. Make a special effort with those whose opinions are respected. 5. Start as you mean to go on - if you find yourself leading former peers; re-engage those who you know to be good. Talk to them and start to understand how you can work together to benefit both your goals.

Editors Note This month’s edition of our newsletter is dedicated to ‘Amplify’ – The Power of Sound. The microphone is an essential tool for many public speakers, and dynamic, high-quality sound can add dimension, emotion and excitement to a speech or an event. If not used correctly, however, microphones can cause problems that distract speakers, irritate audiences and ruin presentations. Fortunately, there are simple ways to ensure proper microphone use, whether it is at your next business meeting, Toastmasters speech contest or wedding toast.

Even if none of your presentations or events involves huge budgets, high-profile audiences or the world’s finest equipment, you should still make every effort to maximize audio quality and minimize the risk of sound problems. Awful audio and malfunctioning microphones frustrate the audience and make bad impressions; but clear, intelligible speech amplification and high-fidelity music and effects can contribute immeasurably to the overall impact of a presentation or event.

Just like the eloquent, passionate delivery of a well-crafted speech, or the high-quality projection of visually dynamic graphics, the amplification of sound should always enhance—not undermine— your professional image and the quality and impact of your work.

Thank you for choosing to read. Do enjoy the next few pages of this newsletter. Happy Reading!!

TM Gowri Editor & VPM, HCL Expressions Toastmasters Club

Inside this issue

Editor’s Note

President Message

New Ex-Com Team

Education Session

Best Practices

Membership & Education Goals

Joint Meeting

Upcoming Events

Gallery

Reach Us

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Dear Toastmasters, A new year, a new toastmasters term and the new horizons beckon to excite us with, 

President Distinguished Club Award Smedley Award Excellence in Membership and Educational goals Award and so on… 

As we just start our term  with triumph of HCL Expressions Toastmasters club awards, first and foremost I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the dedicated past ex-com officers for their diligent efforts. “My dear TM Sara and all the outgoing officers, without YOU our club is nothing today. Thanks for giving us such an incredible year!!!”   Thinking of our new Ex-coms members, our club promises even more today! I can hardly think of a more worthy candidates to take over the office barrier roles . I’m aided ably by a passionate toastmasters comprising of the Meticulous planner TM Muki, as VP-E, committed  member TM Gowri as VP-M, professional performer TM Bharathi as VP-PR, entrusted person TM Shanmugam Priya as secretary,  ensuring member TM Durga as Treasurer and  our budding energetic TM Kalyan as S@A.  Dear Cherished officers , it’s my privilege to work together with you as the  president for this club . I’m all the more excited to learn from such a wonderful team!!! To quickly share our priority would be, To provide an outstanding learning opportunity and motivating environment to

each and every member of  HCL Expressions Toastmasters club . Grow significantly by 50% and retain the club strength To make ourselves visible to the toastmasters fraternity and management. Before

we hearten other members, let’s lead by example and influence them.  Last but definitely not the least to my beloved toastmasters of the club, our club DCP dashboard is clearly showing the steady progress of our club  and it’s driven entirely by YOU, the members. I kindly request your continued commitment in giving speeches, taking up roles and participating in district events to capture that elusive Golden Gavel award  and retain the President's Distinguished award for our club.  TM Vidhya Boopalan, CC, CL President

President’s talk

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MY CLUB – Yesterday and Today I joined the club as a charter member and VP-Education for HCL Expressions Toastmasters Club. Barring a few experienced toastmasters like Badri, Kumaragurubaran and Jamin, every other person in the club was new to the process and to the culture of Toastmasters. Apart from the times when external toastmasters showed up at our sessions, we had a single evaluator doing almost 2-3 evaluations in one meeting. We are also really thankful to the toastmaster’s community who lent a generous hand in creating a pool of mentors who would guide our charter members in their projects, roles and responsibilities. 2 years later, as I write about this today, the club status is sincerely a treat to the eyes and bring joy to the heart. The club also boasts of more than 5-6 Competent communicator, 5+ members available to mentor new members and also a 5+ member mentor pool. Members have also started step out of their own club to visit other clubs to bring in new and varied ideas home. The club also has started being actively involved in leaving a mark at Division level initiatives. Planning and executing milestone sessions has really raised the bar of a toastmaster club in the eyes of the management as well. In a gist, toastmasters of HCL Expressions club have really left a mark with their dedication and commitment. As a charter member I can vouch that we have come a long way today, but there are miles to go. That doesn’t scare me because the evolving leadership and maturity is a clear indication that things will be awesome in future. Wishing the club glories and honors. TM Narmadha Srinivasan Past President

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My transformation As Guest I was observing the meetings and registered as a Toastmaster officially in the month of April 2015. By today, I have been part of “Secretary” Ex-Com role which gave me a different approach towards leadership & communication. I wholeheartedly took the role and showing my best efforts by observing meeting minutes, conducting Ex-com meetings, preparation of Club Success Plan with the Ex-com and so on. Moving forward, I got the confidence in taking the Contest Chair role for Humorous Speech & Evaluations Contest and delegated the tasks within the Toastmasters. With the support from everyone the show was a grant success and helping hand to our sister club HCL Speech Weavers in their Content programs. It was the time for Elections and I was nominated for two Ex-Com roles and finally got votes for taking up “Vice President – Membership” and now in this New Year 2016, I’ve pledged on making our HCL Expressions with healthy membership and taking care of retention. Working towards on this goal, there are new members pipelined to beat “Talk up Toastmaster” Award. Toastmaster transformed me now as a good leader and communicator, now you are reading our Newsletter in my style as I’m playing the Chair for Newsletter Edition. Wishing all toastmasters a very all the best in their Journey! I wish I would be part of all the Events & Trainings conducted by Toastmasters International Thanks, TM Gowri Vice President – Membership Editor – Newsletter Edition for Jan 2016 Issue

My view

Every great enterprise

requires adequate time to be

accomplished. Only Aladdin’s

lamp had the power to order

the erection of palaces and

other edifices of a moment’s

notice and orders of that kind

were executed by

supernatural agents. Human

hands and even scientific

machines take time to do

things. The Pragatheeswaran

temple took six years to build.

The building of an individual’s

career requires year of

sustained effort. Man’s efforts

to land at moon required

years of experimentation,

planning and preliminary

space flights. My manager

always helped me to send e-

mail . After Toastmasters, I

got an appreciation mail from

my manager for a precise e-

mail communication. Now I

am changing into the master

of communication. Change

the changeable. Accept the

unchangeable. And remove

yourself from unacceptable.

Now I am Toastmaster Antony

Ananias alias Ant.

TM Antony

Immediate Past Treasurer

Toastmasters is a place where you can choose to crawl, walk, run or fly in improving your Communication and Leadership skills. I was considering that the Public Speaking Skills is for one who are in top management and why I should be worrying about it now as a Developer. After attending couple of meetings and when I attended District Conference for the first time, I could witness the magnanimous learning possibilities through this forum. So, what’s there in store for you?

First and foremost quality a leader should possess is Time Punctuality, attend any Toastmasters meet / Conference, you see how minute by minute planning is done to ensure this

Certain skills we learn only by doing, for example what works in our speech and what doesn’t work in our speech, we will be knowing only after delivering our speech in front of audience. Over the period of time, you see that you are conscious of don’ts and which helps you to be a Competent Communicator.

We all know that without basement, building a castle is of no use. In this forum, basement for any meet is the planning. Taking up Chair role, helps you to visualize and anticipate the need for planning and it tests your preparedness for un-anticipated situation.

When it comes to team work, the foremost quality a team member should possess is to be a moderator and a team player. Leadership is not about dictating and getting work done, it’s about knowing roles and responsibilities, ensures that all the team members are aware of their responsibilities and bring synergy in team.

This forum gives you a platform to hone your skills, to unleash your potential in both Communication and Leadership aspects of your Life. It’s a forum,

which solely depends on the member on how much they want to learn out of

it. You can decide to crawl, walk, run or fly, the choice is yours.

TM Muki

Vice President—Educations

what’s there in store for you

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Me boosting impact as vppr Thanks to HCL Expressions TM Club for giving me this new face of VPPR for the New year. Thrilled with my new role, I believe 2016 is goanna gain me a lot of popularity. The PR role already started flourishing my presence throughout my building. Smiles amplify day by day as I get to know many ‘coz of my adds.

A gift of my lifetime. I would say my TM journey is. Recognition, friends, happy times and many more. TM had  Boosted its Impact in my life to a greater extent.

TM Bharathi Santhosh Kumar VP Public Relations

IMPACT OF TMS

I was just inspired  from the communication that was explicitly seen in all the members of Toastmasters. I was literally stunned after seeing the way all the TMs performed and the way they dealt with the guests. The approach they had in them was quite elegant and impressive which forced me to join. As a member of “Toastmaster club” taken her first step in TM journey by delivering her first speech on “Ice Breaker Project” about “360 degree feedback” for 6-7 mins. “IT IS ME”. As a Toast master , I started transforming in to a  speaker I'm synergizing with Vibrant "TM club" created a salubrious kind of variation in me but exuberance through which I’m trying to become an Incredible Speaker and the belief they have makes me to endeavor roles as well , through which I’m getting chance of making jubilant day by adding humor and reminiscent stories thereby future has some retrospective days to speak about and finally all my meetings which I attended so far is a distinct one and this TM club helped me to amplify myself. TM Durga Devi Treasurer

Joining Toastmasters has brought a greater impact on me. It has amplified good thoughts in me J hearing to many speeches have helped me to mold myself. Organize myself in all the works I do. I started doing preplanning for every single work. It has amplified my energy. I am more active and relaxed. All these changes are in me as because I am Toastmaster.

As of now I have reached objective of 4 speeches. These objectives are not only in my speeches, but also in my daily life. Now I can organize any task that is given. I can get to the point to describe my thoughts. I can also handle the way In which I speech. Eagerly waiting to boost my impact by completing my CCs and CLs. TM Shanmuga Priya Secretary

New year new role

My WOW experience

Sincerely thank you folks who introduced me to Toastmasters and special

thanks to HCL Expressions TM club for giving me a S@A role right at the

beginning of my journey. Because the mood I set for the meeting is very important and it helps me think from multiple dimensions to greets guest and

collaborative with new members. Within this short journey, my self-

confidence has improved to a greater level and I have started taking up

challenges to become a better communicator and a leader.

TM Kalyan

SAA

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Friends,  Everyone has extra-ordinary power within you! How to bring it up!      Everyone can do great think! How to bring it up!            Everyone is capable of achieving your desire effectively! How to bring it up!                   Everyone is Unique and has talent! How to bring it up!                          Everyone is good communicator ! How to bring it up!

                        The answer is:      Enabling your objective and subjective mind properly.                                                                             Objective mind is the feeder for Subjective/sub-conscious mind.                                                                                          By properly and effectively feeding your brains (objective and subjective mind) you can make wonder                                                                                                       How to FEED :  Toastmaster is one of the way.

                              Let me explain objective and subjective mind.

                             Objective Mind : It is your guide in your contact with the environment. We gain knowledge through the five sense. The objective mind learns through observation, experience and education.                                                                 The Greatest function of the conscious mind is that of reasoning.                               Subjective Mind : It will accept your beliefs and your convictions. It is like the soil, it will accept any seed that you deposit in it, whether it is good or bad.                                                              To deposit good seed,  nurture a great tree and plug sweet fruits for your need and for others you need a platform.                                                                        Toastmaster is the one such platform. Come Let us NURTURE the next generation with ORGANIC way….

TM Saravanakumar Immediate Past President

Immediate past president

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Semi-annual conference

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HCL Expressions Toastmasters Club in this start of New Year 2016 a

successful Educational session which was conducted by our Division I

Director Toastmaster Karthik Mohandass on 19th Jan.

Session was about “Effective Evaluation and Constructive Feedback”

and there were take away from the session. Toastmaster Karthik

explained how effective the evaluation should by mapping with “clay

and the pot” preparation. Evaluation should be designed in such a

way that the speaker should help to improve in the gap identified.

Honest and trustworthy feedback about the speech delivered and

giving recommendations would help the speaker to work out.

The session was concluded by creation of the pot and submission of

the evaluation mapped together

Education session by division director

Best Practices and the Process that New Ex-Com brought in

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Speech Slot has increased from 2 to 4 Focusing more towards Education Session Appreciating the Best Speaker with Educational Books External Club Mentoring for the Advanced Project

Speeches External Theme based Meeting Observing Meeting Minutes by our Secretary in every

Club Meeting MOT (Moments of Truth) Birthday celebrations for our Toastmasters Spreading Toastmaster Magazines within the club

members Recognizing an Ex-Com for the efforts put in Appreciation for the Role Players Appreciation for TAG members

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Membership and educational goals

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It is 3:00 PM and the induction hall in SDB2 looks like a picnic spot with people buzzing around here and there greeting each other. This was the venue for the first ever joint meeting of the two toastmasters clubs at HCL SEZ; HCL Speech Weavers and HCL Expressions. While I was waiting with baited breath for the exciting speeches and insightful evaluations I met the special speaker Toastmaster Kush Tripati. Kush had especially travelled to HCL SEZ office to deliver a session on “Hacks of ISC”, an educational speech for all members on the dos and don’ts for a winning speech. All being said the meeting was completely power-packed and was completely energizing for all the listeners. The theme being “Sunshine” and Word “Scintillating”, the faces and emotions of all members reflected the theme and shone brightly. The icing on the cake was the educational session by TM Kush Tripati who gave a very lively, humorous and thought provoking 20 minutes on how to ace at delivering speeches. The key take-away from his session was that a successful speech doesn’t necessarily have to be serious; it just needs a “Message” that you want to deliver and a “Story” to deliver the message effectively. When there is a message there is a successful speech is what he says, and for aspiring public speakers like me, this was like the magic formula for winning speech contests. Not just speeches but in life, when we have a purpose we have a successful life is what we also realized as the meeting progressed. But why have a message, a purpose we might question. The message or purpose is essential if we all want to amplify our presence in every facet of our lives. When we have the message or purpose we connect with our destination. That was not all; the meeting then proceeded to its most awaited part, the evaluations, where a team gave feedback for individual speakers and the meeting in general. With a mind full of newly gained knowledge and a heart brimming with emotions, I realized that 2 hours had passed when the meeting was called to an end with the award distribution. Kudos to all who were present there to make the meeting a grand success and a one to cherish. TM Vijayshree M Vice President Membership, HCL Speech weavers Club Program Chair, Joint Meeting (HCL Expressions & Speech Weavers)

Otp training

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Joint meeting with sister club

All our new & fresh Ex-Com team attended the OTP training for our Division I held on 24th Jan. We our-self boosted more after receiving the tips for each role. As a team we establish more on the Club growth & health. Our team had a chance to participate as SAA for individual trainings. Toastmaster Muki, Toastmaster Kalyan was acting as SAA for their VPE & SAA programs.

Our Ex-Com Team

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PR Activity at a glance….

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EMERGENCE 2016

Registration Chair: TM Durgadevi, HCL Expressions Club

OVATION 2016 Registration Chair: TM Shanmuga Priya, HCL Expressions Club

Leadership Pool (An Initiative by District 82)

Vote of thanks

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Upcoming events

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HCL Expressions Toastmasters Club

HCL Expressions Toastmasters Club was chartered by the effort of all our Senior Toastmasters and Guests & of course with the support of Management during Oct 2013. The Club has completed more than 100 successful meetings and has achieved many milestones in the journey of leadership & communication

Reach us

President vidhya.boopalan@gmail.com

Toastmaster Vidhya Boopalan PH: 9840618012

Vice President Educations v.s.muki@gmail.com

Toastmaster Muki PH: 9566190555

Vice President Membership gowri.vivek@gmail.com

Toastmaster Gowri PH: 9962054803

Vice President Public Relations bharathichem2k3@gmail.com

Toastmaster Bharathi Santhosh Kumar PH: 9176674221

Secretary priyavasu7@gmail.com

Toastmaster Shanmuga Priya PH: 9003706912

Treasurer dd4durga@gmail.com

Toastmaster Durgadevi PH: 8056902057

SAA kalyannakkina@gmail.com

Toastmaster Kalyan PH: 9866146660

Immediate Past President sarasubr@gmail.com

Toastmaster Saravanakumar PH: 9444524471

Club meetings

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