I joined Toastmasters International!
Posted by johncheah on April 21, 2007
I was so happy to hear that there was a toastmasters club in the office I am working for!
I immediately joined their meetings. It was fun!
There are role players for every meeting:
1. Toastmaster of the Evening: Host for the meeting;
2. Ah Counter: Someone whom counts all speech crutches made during the meeting;
3. Timekeeper: One whom ensures that the meeting runs according to the time set;
4. Table Topics Master: One whom gives out topics for imprompto speeches of 2 minutes each;
5. Grammarian: One whom introduces the Word of the Day, and whom looks out for wrong usage of words, sentence structures, etc;
6. General Evaluator: One whom evaluates how the whole meeting wnet;
7. Speech Evaluators: Those whom evaluate those that gave prepared speeches;
8. Table topics evaluator: One whom evaluates all the table topics speakers;
9. Assignment Speakers: Those whom will present speeches from Toastmaster (TM) Manuals;
10. Table topic speakers: Those whom will share impormpto speeches given by the Table Topics Master;
Ummm… I may have missed one or two roles, but you get the point.
The meeting is very orderly, and during my first meeting, I just sat and listened. I could not wait to participate…. but that’s another story for another day.
The meeting ended with a short “makan” session, sponsored by the office (so nice).
Till the next post… happy speaking!
