2008/08/18 Jason Wu's A16 speech

A16 The Briefing
Title: the interest of running a club
Date: 08/19/2008
Time: 8 to 10 for speech, 5 for question period

Objectives:
Apply the key steps in the preparation of a briefing and the organization of material.
Give a briefing according to a specific objective so the audience will have an understanding of the information.
Effectively handle a question-and-answer session following the briefing.


Opening
“Interest” is an interesting word it has several meaning, therefore you may wonder what I want to talk about, right? So let me explain this word first. “Interest” means as you know some thing what you concern about, what you are eager to know or do, because you like it, it can make you happy. So “interest of running a club” means that why running a club can make you happy. And then another meaning for “Interest”, it can means benefit or profit, when you deposit money in bank, bank will pay you a little of money that call interest, so interest=money=benefit, “interest of running a club” can means what benefit you can get if you run a club. Besides these meanings “Interest” also can means importance some thing will give us great influence not only affect you. So “interest of running a club” also means that why running a club is important for us. Now you know what I want to talk about, three parts of running a club.

First one, why running a club can make you happy. I believe every one has his dream and goal when you are realizing your goal you are making your dream come truth you do it alone do you feel lonely? And you might face problems you don’t know how to solve it that makes you depressed at that moment nobody accompany you nobody encourage you could you keep going to conquer the adversity? Even in the final you reach your goal but nobody share the result and happiness with you could you be happy to enjoy your success? Of course not, we all face this situation or heard this kind of story many times, nobody will feel happy. But in our club we have officer team if you were an officer you not work alone you have partners to realize the goal with you many people will inspire you when need encouragement when you need help always you can fine some one who want to give you a hang, we do it together we encourage each other we help each other, in the end of year we share the result together. So being an officer running a club can really makes you happier.

Second one, what benefits you can get from running a club. 1. Develop your SQ. what is SQ? It is social intelligence quotient. People are social we live together, so we must know how to social we must develop our SQ. If you were an officer you need to set goal for members, therefore you have the chance to view things and think from other member’s side you could be more considerate you need to comfort and concern about members and then influence them you need to persuade them to cooperate with your policy then you could know how to communicate. 2. Make a lot of friends. If you were an officer you need to contact many people, when you work with them you could have chance to know them more and make your relationship closer. 3. Build self confidence. From magazine we can see that many fellow toastmasters build their self confidence when they served as an officer, because they realized their goals they got the feedback then they became confident. If you were an officer you also could get it.


Third one, why running a club is important for us. We all knew that environment can give people great influence, so Mencius his mother moved three times for him our past president Darlene was same with her, but besides that people are another important element for environment, right? If you choose the wrong person to be the officer he will set wrong goal for us lead us to the wrong direction, in the final we may lose our club. Do you want it happen? If you really like this club I believe you don’t, and for other people we have obligation to maintain this place let them can grow here positively, because we took this benefit before.

Dear fellow toastmasters from our past officer election I could feel that our members are so kind and so modest, because our election was so peaceful, nobody want to be the officer, but in the bottom of my heart I suggest you to be the officer, you can get benefits from the process you can make your life happier add colors in your life and you can be the important person in our club, because you can design our club’s future, seldom people have the key to open the door you should seize this opportunity don’t give the wrong person this key, I hope next year our election will be competitive I will see many candidate eager to be the officer.