TAPMI Toastmasters

TAPMI Toastmasters successfully conducted its first virtual meet today! 🙌

In times of work from home, it is only fitting that committees such as ours that are entirely student centric, innovate and come up with newer techniques to stay connected and continue our journey in communication mastery.

We would like to thank all those who joined us today and would love to see more of you in our next meet.

Special mention to Professor Punam Prasad who took time out to join us in this session. We loved having you Maam 😊

Have a great night and stay safe!

Just 1 day left to go!

We hope to see you there tomorrow 😊

2 more days to go!

Amidst the COVID-19 lockdown, all of us are either binging on TV shows or eating away till we explode. In the midst of all of those important activities, we thought we could all do with a bit of Toastmasters Meeting nostalgia!

So, for the first time ever TAPMI Toastmasters is going to go online!

After garnering such positive feedback from all our Toastmasters, we have decided to provide you a continued learning opportunity on a different platform to improve and excel in your public speaking skills during this quarantine!

Catch us online this Thursday at 6 PM for a bit of a Toastie special reunion and an evening with stories and speeches that will lighten us all up 🙌

See you there!

Read of the day! 30-03-2020

SEBI extended timelines for quarterly and annual audited results to June 30. Companies will now pay auditors only when their work is complete. Big-4 auditing firms will be the most hit in 2020-21.

Few facts:
1. Deloitte India to re calibrate increments, promotions to be considered when there is visibility of profits.
2. PwC India to defer all employee appraisal cycles
3. EY India has decided to forgo performance-based appraisals
4. KPMG to take a call by next week

For more on their recruitment, please read..

Big-4 firms defer promotions, appraisals, bonuses and salaries amid virus crisis They are trying to ensure they don’t have to cut jobs as many companies may not be able to honour payments.Audit firms are among the front-line companies affected by the virus because almost all their clients have halted key projects

Read of the day! 28-03-2020

Overall 2020 is going to witness a reduction in global emissions by 0.3% only - lesser than during financial crash in 2008-09

A couple of facts:
1. Transport contributes 23% (driving 72% and aviation 11%) to the global emissions - a huge positive impact since
2. If the coronavirus lats till the end of the year ?(oh no!) then consumer demand will be as low as possible and difficult to pick up even if there is capacity

Will Covid-19 have a lasting impact on the environment? Pollution and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen across continents as countries try to contain the spread of the new coronavirus. Could it lead to longer-lasting falls in emissions?

"If you've got a paragraph, and it can be expressed in a sentence, put it in a sentence. If the sentence can be shortened, take it down to three or four words. If you can get away with one syllable instead of two syllables, do that."

-Ted Sorensen
An American Lawyer

Read of the day! 27-03-2020

A timeline of how China misled the world on the novel Coronavirus outbreak.

6 Facts as on today:
1. First case detected in Wuhan in Dec'2019
2. Half a million people affected
3. Approximately 20,000 death so far
4. 180+ countries affected
5. India's GDP growth for FY21 estimated at 2.6%, lowest in the last 3 decades
6. FY20 growth estimate down from 5% to 4.5%

This article will leave you extremely astonished.

A timeline of how China misled the world on coronavirus outbreak The virus, which has originated in central China's Hubei Province has claimed more than 20,000 lives so far.With 10,000 deaths in Europe alone, it has now become an epicentre of the deadly virus

Read of the day! 24-03-2020

Interesting and an astonishing fact:
Elon Musk works 85 hours per week

What's the secret of his success?
First principles says he

Now whats that?
Read to find out....

Elon Musk says he owes his success to a 3-step problem-solving trick also used by Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla REUTERS/Stephen LamIt's easy to link Elon Musk's rapid success, ability to solve unsolvable problems, and genius-level creativity to his incredible work ethic.But

Read of the day! 23-03-2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-03-17/coronavirus-may-slow-by-summer-with-warmer-temperature-humidity

The article says:
1. Increasing the temperature by one degree centigrade reduces the R0 (infection rate) by 0.0383 and increasing humidity by 1% pushes it down by 0.0224.
2. It is currently at 2.2. Bringing it down to below 1 will naturally make COVID-19 extinct.
3. R0

Coronavirus Could Very Well Slow by the Summer Evidence is emerging that warmer temperatures and higher humidity can indeed affect the disease’s spread.

Word of the day! 22-03-2020
Imperceptible: subtle, not noticeable, gradual

In conversation with many individuals, remember the imperceptible nods you give your best friend when the both of you get the exact same meaning (mostly dirty)?