Spinnaker Toastmasters Club
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club
Spinnaker Toastmaster Club meetings are held on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Tuesday of the month, from 7.30 pm-9.30 pm. Here is a list of our upcoming meetings:
Download and print the 2009 Meeting Calendar (1 page pdf)
For each meeting an agenda is drawn up by the chairperson for the meeting which shows the timing of each activity and the person undertaking that role.
A schedule of future meetings and their themes is distributed every 3 months by the Vice President Education listing the duties assigned to club members.
Visitors and guests are usually invited to participate in table topics (impromptu speaking) if they wish, and will be approached by the Table Topics Master on arrival.
At each meeting, members perform specific roles that have been previously assigned. These roles rotate amongst the members, meeting by meeting, so that everyone in the club gains experience in a variety of speaking and communication roles.
The Chairperson organises and runs the meeting. They prepare and publish a written agenda and may introduce each speaker. The Chairperson may also assign other roles such as Grammarian, or Listening Post.
The Table Topics Master prepares the topics for the impromptu speaking part of the meeting. The speakers chosen from the audience are those who do not have an assigned duty during the meeting. Visitors are usually invited to participate in table topics if they wish.
The Speakers deliver speeches they have prepared on a topic of their choosing from an assignment in a Toastmasters manual. Each speaker has particular goals that they are aiming for - these are specified in the Toastmasters programme.
An evaluator is assigned to each speaker. The evaluator's role is to introduce the speaker and provide both verbal and written feedback on how well they met the objectives of the speech. Evaluators comment on the speaker's strengths as well as areas where they might improve for next time.
The Timekeeper times each participant and ensures they do not exceed the time that the Chairperson has allocated. Three lights are used to indicate how close the speaker is to the end of their time. When the green light comes on, the speaker is nearing the end of the speech, when the orange or yellow light comes on, it is time to start winding up the speech, and when the red light comes on it is time to end the speech.
Evaluates all meeting participants who haven't received evaluations, especially the Chairperson and Speech Evaluators. Comments on how well the meeting was run and where improvements can be made.
Here's a typical Spinnaker Toastmasters meeting agenda:
Note: Timings may vary depending on the speech project being presented. Up to 5 prepared speeches may be delivered during a meeting. Evaluations of Prepared Speeches are usually 2-3 minutes.
Here are a range of resources for the Chairperson to use when preparing and running a meeting at Spinnaker Toastmasters Club. Documents are in Word or pdf format for reuse.