Thanks to the organizing team of Barbara(VP Education), Ineke (Contest Chair) and Ron (Chief Judge) we had a great club contest on the 15th of Feb, 2023.
Jasmin entertained us with her target speech on getting engaged to her very German boyfriend who cleans better than her and cuddles up with their poodle.
Mikaela and Marco participated in the Evaluation contest and Mikaela won the contest telling us about her experience with her very German husband.
Mikaela, Diogo and Ranjith participated in the Table topics contest and Ranjith won the contest. All of them talked about their favorite things!
Ranjith was the only contestant in the International Speech contest and he stayed on time.
Ranjith will be representing our club in the Table topics and International Speech contest on the 11th of March, 2023 in Augsburg.
Save the date – 11th of March, 2023 to watch four clubs in our area participate in the next level!
Four officers from the Munich Prostmasters made it to Ingolstadt!
Ron and I landed early for the officer training at Ingolstadt last week. The location was great – Technische Hochschule. It felt great to be meeting people live after two years for an officer training. The last time I was in one of them was beginning of 2022 when Mikaela organised one in the European University near Theresienwiese in Munich.
We set up the wall that people know from conferences and I jumped to the opportunity of creating a short teaser for the workshop later that day. Yanti was kind enough to make the video and she sure has a stable hand.
We had fun sessions throughout the afternoon!
Tobias took on a journey about the Distinguished Club plan, Jason on Hybrid meetings and Olga on DTM.
Olga managed to get people together and present their ideas. Two of our officers got their ideas together and presented as part of their teams.
Haiyi explaining how she will take care of members and guests during a Toastmasters conference
Darya in action at the officer training talking about club funds and taxation.
We had a great time yesterday with Barbara, Isil, Ineke, Ron, Stefan, Chris and Darya discussing what went well in 2021/22 and what could be improved.
We even had two guests Alejandro and Jeff joining us to provide their valuable inputs.
We sat down in a round table and had a discussion over some snacks and continued the discussion later in the local Bavarian restaurant in true Prostmasters style.
We are very proud to have achieved the Select Distinguished Status for the Munich Prostmasters in the year 2021/22 inspite of the challenges we faced.
Wishing the Munich Prostmasters all the best for the year 2022/23!
Every first and third Wednesday (and if the month has 5 weeks – also on the fifth Wednesday) Munich Prostmasters club meets to have fun, learn and grow together!
During the last year, pandemic, we would meet comfortably in the front of the web camera on the Zoom call – people would join from across the globe! Since July 2021 we finally got a chance to meet in person – with limited participants and under current Corona rules – to keep everyone safe. And while we all have been exceptionally happy to finally meet after a year of virtual meetings – Munich Prostmasters club has decided to keep Zoom calls as well and run our meetings in Hybrid form!
July 21st has been our second hybrid meeting – and it was simple UNIQUE, as every single Prostmasters meeting is! Technology meets people – that could have been the motto of the evening. Numerous webcams guaranteed exceptional image quality, PCs, tablet, beamer, microphone, high speed internet – combined with highly dedicated officer team – this is the recipe of success!
Our members and guests have joined in the Freiraum center, and online – dialing in from New Jersey, Frankfurt and Munich. As we all learned to conduct the effective online meetings we are now stepping up to the next challenge – run effective meetings in hybrid mode interacting with both online and offline audience!
The evening was truly inspiring, as was the World of the Day, introduced by Navin. The one who uses the word “INSPIRING” most of the times throughout the meeting will be the winner. Yet why is the winner the one who gets to pay for a beer for everyone once we meet for the dinner?
Christopher, The Joke of The Evening Master, ZOOMing in from New Jersey brought us a joke highlighting that perhaps “phenomenal eyesight as that of 20-years old” is not enough to do good when the good memory is missing. Good start, and also a timely reminder for the blogger to open up the PC and start taking notes!
With Mel Kelly as Toastmaster of the Evening we have enjoyed 1.5 hours full of fun, laughter and international humor – best of Irish man in the heart of Munich.
Haiyi brought us very thoughtful table topics, closely aligned with what concerns us recently. We had Ineke, Martin, Craig and Oscar speaking about the climate change, the doom and gloom feeling, our responsivity and the ability of the society as whole to pull together and make incredible changes.
Francesca opened the prepared speech section with the “Jenga slicing”. It has been colorful and brilliant, a Jenga Tower serving as visual metaphor for a working day. Francesca inspired us all to step back and win perspective, while slicing the problems until they get smaller and more manageable.
Francesca – “Jenga Slicing”
Fabio with the speech “Watch what you’re doing” thought us how to focus and make life easier. The Kolbe A test, time boxing (meditating, journaling, walking, playing instrument, playing chess and coming here to give the speech…how to squizze it all in?), no “To Do Lists”, rather Focusmate app. Tech meets Italian passion – and last resort being “go to mama and get a hug”
Fabio: “Watch what you’re doing”
Isil (really Isil – we missed you, how nice to have you back!) took it as General evaluator and perfectly nailed down the main challenge our Hybrid meetings have: keeping the eye contact with the onsite audience and with online participants. Yeah, we got to work on it!
Amazing set of evaluators: Ineke, Ron, the AH-Counter Martin (who calls all those “ahms, and “umhs” the rhetorical prosthetics) and last but not least – our GUEST Carolin who took a role of TIMER of the evening. Indeed, timing people in Prostmasters is a challenge, timing Ineke, a DTM (stands for Distinguished Toastmaster) – in Inekes words, “Do not Time Me” is a double challenge!
Finally we all celebrated Rish who recently became a DTM as well! In Rish’es words: “it Takes a Village To Grow Someone” – we could say – “It Takes A Prostmasters Club to Grow DTMs”! Well done Rish and all Prostmasters members!
New DTM: Rish!
Munich Prostmasters is meeting on August 4th – will you join us online or onsite? Whatever you choose – we are committed to make it an equally positive, unique, impactful and inspiring experience!
Stephanie transformed the role of Sergeant-at-Arms and brought order to the Prostmasters. She was a President of the club. She was the active founder of the Isar Speak club. In this interview she shares her journey to becoming a Distinguished Toastmaster.
Since joining Prostmasters in 2018, Isil has been a club trailblazer for the Pathways experience and has brought her talent and enthusiasm to serve the club as an officer, including club President. In 2020, she competed in the Table Topics contest and shined all the way to win 1st place at the District Conference. Isil kindly took time to share with us her insights on her experience.
