Thursday, August 5, 2010

5th Installation of President and Board for 2010/11

The 5th Istallation of President Niroshan Nadarajah and his executive committee for the year 2010/11 is planned to be held tomorrow, the 7th August 2010 at the HNB Towers, with Div Gov Kapila Bandara as the chief guest.

The event, will as usual have the mix of professionalism, culture, surprises and fellowship of Toastmastering in Sri Lanka.

Interested persons, please contact Niroshan on 077 306 2222 and confirm your participation at a heavily subsidised price of Rs 1000 per guest and Rs 1500 per toastmasters.

Come, experience the beginning of a new year for Ralph, and their contribution to the world TM movement.

Karthik Ramachandran

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Standard Chartered Speech Crafter Finale


The well looked forward to event for this calender year of Ralph Toastmasters was the finale of Standard Chartered Speechcrafter session's Finale for Goups B and C. This gala event was held at the Grand Orient Hotel on the 9th Jul 2010, where 39 successful participants obtained the certificates.

A speechcrafter programme is a string of meetings held biweekly for corporate or social groups intended solely on improving the leadership and communication qualities. We give a crash course for ideally 10 weeks, where at least 8 weeks will have a special presentor, captioning an important topic which would enhance improvement to the attendees.

The special presenters are senior, well acclaimed toastmasters, who would give insights of their personal experiences to the audience. The sessions held with SCB had the following Toastmasters who have guided these future leaders from SCB.



Niranjan De Silva - MD Metropolitan & Colombo TM Member
Arunasalem Balraj - MD Gemtrans & Colombo, Ralph TM Dual member
Yusuf Jeevunjee - MD,CEO Jaywise & Colombo TM Member
Ajitha Goonawardane - Personal Trainer & Member Millennium TM Club
Chrishanthi Emmanual - Secy LOLC & Colombo, Ralph TM Dual Member
Dayan DL Fernando - Personal Trainer & Member Serendib TM Club
Maheshi Premaratne - Personal Trainer & Member Colombo TM Club

The professionalism and capabilities of the above, at least in part have glided into the minds of the following who with pride obtained the certificates from the chief guest for the evening Head Consumer Banking Mr Anirban Ghosh Dastidar:

Batch B
Wanamalee Silva
Thivantha Sanjeewa
Channa Herath Gunaratne
Gavin Wijeratne
Ymara Fernando
Jeremy Saverymuthapulle
Andrea de Silva
Andrea Bartholomeusz
Nutan Casseer
Hirushka Fernando
Lilanganie De Silva
Lasitha Wijeratne
Indu Manoratne
Rajith Siriwardena
Tyronne De Zilwa
Tuan Haniffa
Chathurika Hordagoda
Nalin Webster
Ryan De Silva
Sameela Wanniatchi
Inoshe Abeynayake
Delon Kellar
Ruwani Ebell
Shehani Fernando

Batch C
Lasantha Fernando
Menaka Bandara
Shirazdeen Mohamed
Chamalie Serasinghe
Marina Goonawardena
Zarfiya Shamsudeen
Ruwini Jayasena
Achala Symons
Madhavi Daluwatte
Gothami Nagodawithana
Sajeewani Wijetilleke
Keith Rebeira
Melissa Van-Twest
Aravind Nagendran
Bhanushi Dissanayake

The Event finished with each person brimming in happiness and pride both from Toastmasters fraternity and Standerd Charterd bank Team where the earlier were jubilant in their successful training and the latter confident in the new gain in knowledge, leadership and communication.

The fellowship that followed made possible interaction with each and increased morale where certain members of the trainees who could not open in front of an audience where now unstoppable at the podium was seen in reality.

The fabulous Sri Lankan Dinner saw to it that not only the hearts were full; the tummies were as well.

We are proud of our achievement and further pleased to inform that this series of training has increased awareness within the SCB team. Such is the requirement that the HR of SCB is looking at once again calling for a batch D - the fourth in succession; thus continues the Ralph Toastmaster commitment towards building efficient communicators and leaders in Sri Lanka.

Till the next updates, please feel free to gather information from our main HQ site, http://www.toastmasters.org

Karthik Ramachandran

Meeting Agenda Year 5 Meeting 3