Advancement in Excellence Kamal Mohiyuddin, President It was a wonderful year for me as a toastmaster and as the president of this prestigious club. A year full of experiments and incredible experiences - a terrific year of great events! Our focus was to justify the theme of the year (Advancement in Excellence) a vision based on the principle of doing; defining actions that would lead us to reach our destination. I would like to highlight and bring to mind that our executive committee first of all took very important decisions to frame our journey forward. Let me share some of the most important of it: Sub committees to be formed. A dedicated website and newsletter. Identify and award „Best Toastmaster‟ for every quarter. An interesting 3 minute session with a difference will be introduced in all meetings Speech craft program with the coordination of education committee members. A YLP program to be conducted in Al Noor International School. Every BAT member can be given a photo stand with the words “ Advanced Toastmaster”. Mentors pool for all advanced manuals speeches. An advanced manual Expo. I am sure you will agree that a few of these are very innovative and we could achieve many of those. Now I realize that a year is not sufficient for us to convert these plans into actions and get them to materialize. But I am proud that we were able to put in our maximum efforts to reach this destination, agreeing that we have yet to reach many. I am sure this year will be marked and remembered by the Toastmasters fraternity for these different activities Mentors Pool for Advanced manual speakers. In this revolutionary concept we have volunteers to serve the toastmasters community to help them whenever they have doubt about preparing and delivering a project. We have prepared the list and will be publishing the list of mentors.
Bahrain Advanced Toastmasters Exhibition (BATEX) first of its kind in Bahrain. We introduced speech craft to Deloitte & Touché across the entire District 79 through our senior member and past Division Governor TM Jose Thomas. A session as a perfect example was conducted by TM Dr. Usha Devarajan "Speakeasy ” a Toastmaster speech craft program in association with ILA brought in by TM Dr. Usha Devarajan and conducted by TM Jothi Ruben Sponsored Speakeasy Toastmasters Club.
As a priority on quality we took necessary steps to improve the quality of meetings as well as the PR of the club: 1) Guaranteed all the advanced project speakers getting the kind of facility that required completing their related projects- both technical and physical. 2) Encouraged interpersonal communication among the club members, consequently the union of skills and expertise gave birth to brilliant plans and projects. 3) Had many deliberations with criss-cross scrutiny, on how to do things better. 4) Initiated new ideas and tried to convert those themes into action. 5) Initiated website, group emails, quarterly newsletter. 6) Utilized the media to spread the activities of our club among the public. I have to confess that there are few items missing. When we did two speech craft with the support of Dr. Usha, we couldn‟t do the YLP, though Dr. Claire had agreed to volunteer and the management of Al Noor International School was keen to conduct it. One of the reasons being the unforeseen and unfortunate challenges due to the period of unrest in the Kingdom. Now at the end of the term, I would like to place on record as your President, my admiration for your creative contribution, your unconditional support that inspired and motivated me to achieve such heights.
I SALUTE YOU BAT TEAM AND MEMBERS OF BAHRAIN ADVANCED TOASTMASTERS