The Speech Craft programme band-wagon of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka (CMA Sri Lanka) was held despite the impediment of the COVID-19 pandemic, conducting the entire twelve sessions of the batch 21 speechcraft meetings online.
Since the inaugural batch of CMA students in 2015 volunteered to form the CMA Sri Lanka Toastmasters Club the Speech Craft programme grew from strength to strength under the visionary leadership of Professor Lakshman R. Watawala, who recognized the value addition of communication skill development and leadership in career path progress and made the speechcraft module mandatory to obtain the highly acclaimed membership of the CMA, to attain the qualification of ACMA.
“The ACMA accreditation is well recognized locally and globally”, said Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala in his address as the Chief Guest at the final awards ceremony meeting of batch 21, concluded online on Sunday, 13th December 2020.
The uniqueness of Batch 21 is that all meetings including the final awards meeting were conducted online and the speech crafters and the facilitators never met physically but inter-acted and enjoyed fellowship on the virtual platform.
The result was exceptional and virtual reality with live participation proved outstandingly exceptional. Three, Level 3 Speeches on “Artificial Intelligence in the workplace and how to prepare for it”, “Read & Understand” and “Sports & Life” laid the foundation for the future trend and excellence in performance. These speeches were preceded by two inspiring and motivating level two speeches on the topics “Smart phone does not make you Smart” and “Maybe I’ll die, but I can try”.
The speeches were of high quality and standard with immense information, knowledge, inspiration, motivation and advice. The prepared speeches were followed by six impromptu speeches by volunteers on varied topics, conveying further information, knowledge and advice.
Environmental Pollution, COVID-19 second phase and its’ impact, Real wealth isn’t money, Dieting the best Health plan, The secret to enjoy life overcoming stress and the lessons of love from the romantic tragedy and legendary movie ‘Titanic’.
The entire programme was conducted by the speech crafters and the presentation of Certificates was done by President CMA Sri Lanka Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala and President CMA Toastmasters Club TM Mayuran Ramanathan. The awards presentation was conducted by the Course Director Dian Abeyewardene and every participant gave a comment commending the excellence of the programme, thanking the visionary leadership of Prof. Watawala for making the Speech Craft module mandatory to obtain the CMA membership.
Further generous accolades were given to the Course Director and Shanthi Maheswaran Head of Administration and the IT team who facilitated the virtual platform.
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