CDE Toastmasters Club

CDE (Center for Drug Evaluation) Toastmasters Club (3736005) was chartered in February this year. I was honored to be the club mentor and I received a club mentor certificate from the headquarters on September 17th after the completion of six months mentoring of the club.

 CDE holds enlarged meetings every three months to accommodate all CDE colleagues (about 100+ persons). President Jean Lai took initiatives to organize a demo meeting to promote Toastmasters to more employees at CDE's year-end enlarged meeting at the Glory Church Tuesday afternoon, December 16th. The demo meeting started from 2:30PM and ended at 3:30PM.

It was a successful and joyful demo Toastmasters meeting full of excitements and laughter at CDE! I wrote Jean an congratulatory email about my observations. I have full confidence that CDE Toastmasters Club can be entrusted to organize an impressive international conference for the Ministry of Health.

Nevertheless, I suggest that 1. the poster outside the building impressed the celebrities, but it could be better with bigger poster and the photos of the celebrities; 2. The back of the meeting agenda can give credits to all who are involved in making the fun meeting possible, like the end of a movie, including venue preparation, costume design; 3. The social gathering time can be a little longer, say from 1 minute to five minutes. Consider about playing music in the background to encourage audience to walk around or giving high five to one another. A short variety session to warm up the audience at the beginning of the meeting for five minutes is recommended.

The meeting room at the Glory Church is fantastic with music instruments and spot lights on stage. I felt like a real Toastmaster celebrity, and I believe all Toastmasters in District 67 would be thrilled to be invited to CDE's year-end meeting in 2015
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