Toastmaster Meetings
During a meeting there will usually be 2 speeches and a
table topics session where everyone is welcome to participate. Table topics are presented by a member
and consists of random questions which is answered with a short impromptu speech of 1-2 minutes.
Some meeting also have an educational session of 10 minutes about an aspect of speechcraft or presentation
technique.
After the Table Topics two members have a chance to deliver a prepared speech.
In order to help our members improve their public speaking skills, all speeches
are then evaluated by another member who gives constructive criticism and
feedback. Written feedback from the audience is also encouraged. Feedback
is always about
delivery an never about the
content of the speech.
A typical meeting agenda:
| 19:45 |
Room Opens |
| 20:00 |
Welcome from the President |
| 20:05 |
Word of the Day
Agenda, Introduction to guests
|
| 20:10 |
Table Topics
Vote for the Table Topic of the day
|
| 20:35 |
Speech 1 |
| 20:45 |
Speech 2 |
| 20:55 |
General Evaluation
- Evaluation of speech 1
- Ah-Counter
- Grammarian
- Timer
- Evaluation of meeting
|
| 21:10 |
Business section
Determine roles for next meeting
|
| 21:15 |
Closing remarks: TM of the evening |
| 21:10 |
End of the meeting |
A meeting allows members to participate in several roles:
- Toastmaster of the evening
The TME organizes the meeting, appoints members to roles and is generally
responsible for making sure that the meeting run well.
- Table Topics Master
The table topics master compiles a set of questions to ask members at
random. Any topic may be used but the topics of a meeting are usually
arranged by a specific theme.
- General evaluator
The GE conducts the evaluation section of the meeting, calls
the different evaluators and evaluates the running of the meeting
itself.
- Evaluator
A evaluator evaluates the speech of another member.
- Timer
The times is responsible for keeping time duing a speech and put
up an indicator to a speaker that he or she is getting close to the
end of a speech. The times also records the times of all table topics,
speeches and evaluations and reads them out at the end of the meeting
to help participants.
- Grammarian
The grammarian listens to grammar errors during the meeting
and reports on those at the end during the evaluation section.
- Ah Counter
People very often make all kinds of grunts or oohs or aahs
during pauses in a speech, which tends to distract from the smooth
flow of delivery. In order help members improve on this, the ah counter
counts these moments and reports on them during the evaluation phase.
