"a toastmaster wears many hats"
Click below to download your own PDF copy of the meeting roles from the official Toastmasters guide book.
| all_roles_manual.pdf |
BELOW IS OUR VERY OWN, "UNOFFICIAL" MEETING ROLE DESCRIPTIONS
Toastmaster
The Toastmasters is the "meeting director", "facilitator", "host", and our personal favorite, the "emcee."
Your main job is to conduct the entire meeting from start to finish. Trust us, it's not as bad as it sounds and it's a great opportunity to learn and foster great leadership skills.
You'll be doing things like choosing a meeting theme, introducing participants, and ensuring the meeting doesn't run over time.
Download our PDF guide below to see how being a Toastmaster works!
Your main job is to conduct the entire meeting from start to finish. Trust us, it's not as bad as it sounds and it's a great opportunity to learn and foster great leadership skills.
You'll be doing things like choosing a meeting theme, introducing participants, and ensuring the meeting doesn't run over time.
Download our PDF guide below to see how being a Toastmaster works!
| toastmaster_role_overview.pdf |
speaker
As a speaker, you'll focus on your speech...that's it. Each and every speech is a big step in your Toastmaster journey, so kudos to you!
Before the meeting: Come up with a speech name. Once you do that, send over the details to your speech evaluator.
Details include the following:
- Speech Name
- Speech Number
- Project Pathway
- Personal Goals
Your personal goals could be anything you wish to work on. For example, hand gestures, vocal variety, vocal projection, eye contact, etc.
Before the meeting: Come up with a speech name. Once you do that, send over the details to your speech evaluator.
Details include the following:
- Speech Name
- Speech Number
- Project Pathway
- Personal Goals
Your personal goals could be anything you wish to work on. For example, hand gestures, vocal variety, vocal projection, eye contact, etc.
speaker evaluator
It's all in the name, you evaluate the speaker.
Perhaps the best form of evaluating that we at SF Toastbusters have adopted comes from the video below.
Perhaps the best form of evaluating that we at SF Toastbusters have adopted comes from the video below.
Towards the end of the meeting, you'll go up to evaluate the speaker's speech.
general evaluator
The general evaluator's duty is to evaluate the entire meeting as a whole.
Things to talk about may include:
- How the evaluators evaluated the speaker
- Did the meeting start on time? If not, why?
- The cool layout of the tables
- Jon's cool shirt (this has actually been commented on)
Things to talk about may include:
- How the evaluators evaluated the speaker
- Did the meeting start on time? If not, why?
- The cool layout of the tables
- Jon's cool shirt (this has actually been commented on)
grammarian
Find cool uses of languages that people used and give props to them! You'll have to try and find poor uses of languages as well though.
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Also, determine a "word of the day" for folks to keep in mind throughout the meeting in order for them to use it!
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Also, determine a "word of the day" for folks to keep in mind throughout the meeting in order for them to use it!
ah counter aka "wizard of ahs"
"Ahhhh"
"Uhhh"
"Um"
"You know..."
Yep, we all do it.
So uh, every time a person, uh, says one of these nasty "filler" words, your job as the Wizard of Ahs is to, um, count them for each person, you know?
"Uhhh"
"Um"
"You know..."
Yep, we all do it.
So uh, every time a person, uh, says one of these nasty "filler" words, your job as the Wizard of Ahs is to, um, count them for each person, you know?
timer
The timer's duty is to ensure that each speaker on stage isn't going over time. At a certain time, you'll show a specific color flag that indicates where the speaker is on time.
For instance, table topic speakers will usually speak for 1 to 2 minutes.
This means,
GREEN @ 1 minute
YELLOW @ 1:30 minutes
RED @ 2 minutes
FLAG!!!
Time to wrap up that speech and get off the stage!
For instance, table topic speakers will usually speak for 1 to 2 minutes.
This means,
GREEN @ 1 minute
YELLOW @ 1:30 minutes
RED @ 2 minutes
FLAG!!!
Time to wrap up that speech and get off the stage!
table topics master
One of the most nerve wrecking and most fun portions of the meeting is our impromptu speaking portion.
As the table topics master, you create questions before the meeting centered around the meeting theme. Your job is to call up folks to answer the question that you proposed to them in front of everyone for 1 to 2 minutes.
Just thinking about this makes my heart race (with excitement).
As the table topics master, you create questions before the meeting centered around the meeting theme. Your job is to call up folks to answer the question that you proposed to them in front of everyone for 1 to 2 minutes.
Just thinking about this makes my heart race (with excitement).
