There are fun roles to perform on the meeting night, to help promote learning and fun. You are usually set a role to perform by the Vice President of Education prior the meeting via the Meeting Agenda.
If you’re given a role, the explanation for that role is below:
During the meeting three or more speakers will present a prepared speech. This speech usually derives itself from one of the member’s Toastmasters manuals.
When you first join Toastmasters you will eventually get your Competent Communicators manual. In this manual for first speech is The Ice Breaker this speech is basically about you. Every member has performed The Ice Breaker and remembers what it was like. If you’re doing your The Ice Breaker and you want some help ask another member to help you; they would be honored to.
After every prepared speech is delivered, there are evaluators for each one. After you have completed some speeches yourself, you may be asked to evaluate another member on their speech. The evaluation is for the speaker so he or she can become less self-conscious and more confident in their speaking. Usually when you give an evaluation you give them feedback on where you thought they did well, and where they could have room for improvement.
The role of the Timer is to time every segment of the meeting. With all speeches delivered they have a specified time they should go for, there fore the Timer also is to notify the speaker that they are on time or out of time. The Timer will also give a Timer’s report at the end of the meeting about how long each segment went.
Toastmasters had a tradition that all members speak at a meeting, and Table Topics allows this to happen. The Table Topics Master role is to produce topics for members of their choice to talk about. The Table Topics Master role is to help promote impromptu repsonses, meaning to help members ‘think on their feet’ to put it in lay terms. Being able to think on your feet makes you a better speaker and more confident while speaking.
The General/Master Evaluator role is like a normal Evaluator, but just evaluates everything except the speeches of the night.
The role of the Toastmaster is to conduct the speeches and evaluations segment. They introduce the speakers and evaluators for the night, and they make the transition between speakers and evaluators seamless.
The role of the ‘Um & Er’ Counter is to count all the ums and ers that people do through out the meeting. This is usualy feedback to individuals who have high numbers, because they’re then aware there is room for improvement in this area.
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