Doha: Division B organised an enlightening and engaging virtual training program ‘Members Orientation’ on October 8, 2020 for the Toastmasters’s community in Qatar, where three different educational modules were presented.
The Doyen Toastmasters in Qatar Sonny Varghese, DTM enlightened the members all about the history and hierarchy of toastmasters. He took us down the memory lane from the inception of the toastmasters’ movement in 1905.
Today Toastmasters International is a nonprofit organisation having about 16200 clubs in 145 countries with 36,200 members across the world. Pavithra Philip literally donned different hats to explain the different roles that toastmasters play in the toastmasters meetings.
Every member gets to play a role in any meeting, and thus toastmasters meetings provide opportunities for its members to master communication and leadership skills.
Pathways, the Toastmasters’ educational curriculum were well explained by Parul Srivastava. The program offers about 11 paths through which members are able to develop competence in various fields like Presentation mastery, Innovative Planning, effective coaching. Parul also explained how a member could reach the status of ‘Distinguished Toastmaster’, the pinnacle of achievement in a toastmaster’s journey.
The program was called to order by Area 8 Director Chandrashekhar Dudhe. Division B Director Riana Pinto, DTM welcomed all the members. TLI Chair Christopher Almeida, DTM introduced the presenters pompously.
Timing was monitored by Area 7 Director TM Kumaran, while the vote of thanks was delivered by the Assistant Division Director, Program Quality, Anita Samanta, DTM. Alka Shukla, conducted the Q&A session.
Division B thanks all the presenters and all attendees for their valuable participation. District 116 leaders Rajeswar Sundaresan, DTM, Manzoor Moideen, DTM, Rajesh VC, DTM & Ravishankar were in attendance.
