Worthing Speakers Club - Meeting Roles
| Snippet of Meeting Roles |
The Toastmaster of the meeting is it’s overall host, introducing all the items and linking them together. The Prepared Speaker gives a speech prepared from the Toastmasters Educational programme, Pathways. The Evaluator appraises a individual speech, giving useful commendations and recommendations. The Timekeeper is responsible for timing items in the meeting, and signaling at appropriate points. The Grammarian comments on the use of language during the meeting. The Topicsmaster chairs a session of impromptu speaking topics. The Table Topics Evaluator appraises the Table Topics session and the individual impromptu speakers. The General Evaluator evaluates everything, except items that have been evaluated already, at the end of the meeting. |
Warm-up Master
The Warm-up Master will present the audience with a lively topic for discussion. All members of the audience will be free to join in and offer a very brief personal view on the subject.
Table Topics Master
The Table Topics Master will propose a topic for discussion. Selected members of the audience will then be invited to speak on the subject for 2 minutes.
Table Topics Evaluator
The Table Topics Evaluator provides feedback to all of the Table Topics Speakers to help them become more confident and effective impromptu speakers.
Grammarian
You must listen carefully to everything that is said during the course of the meeting and make notes on interesting (or incorrect) use of grammar and language.
Timekeeper
As the meeting Timekeeper, you will need to time each and every introduction, speech or evaluation.
General Evaluator
Your task will be to provide feedback on all the aspects of the meeting that have not already been covered by both the Table Topics and Speech evaluations.