We meet virtually on Thursdays at noon and meet F2F/Hybrid one Thursday per month. Members and guests sign in 5-10 minutes before our meeting starting precisely at 12:05 pm.
We have a meeting owner (the "Toastmaster") who chairs our meeting and brings us altogether. He or she introduces the theme of the meeting (brings it to life) & greets/introduces our guests.
The Toastmaster then calls on members with meeting roles often in this order:
- Grammarian: to share the Word of the Day that we all try to use correctly in the meeting.
- Prepared Speech 1:
- Evaluator 1 shares the speaking project objectives for Speaker 1
- Toastmaster introduces Speaker 1 and then Speech Title
- Speaker 1 presents usually for 5-7 minutes; sometimes 10-12 min or 20-25 min
- Members & guests take 2 minutes in silence to provide written feedback to speaker
- Evaluator 1 then shares feedback to Speaker 1 - both "glow" points & "grow" points.
- Prepared Speech 2: (a different speaker, and chances are, an entirely different project)
- same process as above
- Table Topics (Impromptu Speaking Practice):
- Table Topics Master provides a framework ie. theme, set-up ... so that both members and guests have the opportunity to speak "off the cuff" for up to 1 minute
- General Evaluation of the Meeting:
- Timer (How did we do with respect to our timing goals?)
- Grammarian (Who used the Word of the Day? What were great uses of language?)
- Quizmaster (How well were we listening to Toastmaster, speakers, evaluators?)
- General Evaluator provides evaluation of meeting as a whole (excluding evaluations of speakers already done)
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