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Serving as Toastmaster is an excellent way to practice planning, preparation, organization, time management, facilitation, motivation, and team-building skills as you strive to make the meeting one of the club’s best.
- Develop a theme for the meeting, use in your introductions of meeting participants and for transitions between segments. Be sure to let the Table Topic Master know the theme, so he/she might develop topics around it.
- Contact each speaker several days before the next meeting (to ensure they know they are on the agenda) and to obtain a short introduction.
- When contacting the speakers, ask for their speech title, speech length (time), path, level and project number and description.
- Ask the speaker to contact their evaluator (use club database) and send their evaluation form (located here)
- Confirm the General Evaluator for the meeting. Encourage them to contact the other members of the evaluation team (speech evaluators, Topicsmaster, timer, grammarian, and Ah-Counter) and review their responsibilities for the meeting.
- Prepare remarks to bridge the gaps between program sections.
- Remember that serving as Toastmaster is one of the most valuable experiences in your club work. The assignment requires careful preparation to facilitate a well-run meeting
- Preside with sincerity, energy, enthusiasm, and decisiveness.
- Strive to begin and end the meeting on time. You may have to make adjustments to the schedule during the meeting to accomplish this task. Ensure each part of the meeting adheres to the established schedule.
- Lead the applause before and after the Table Topics session, each prepared speech, and the General Evaluator’s remarks.
- Club Database
