Our Meeting Format
Each club can have a modified meeting schedule. Here's how we do it at the Fairleigh Early Birds Toastmasters.
• We start a meeting with President's remarks
• President calls upon the Invocator
- An Invocator is called to deliver an inspirational message
• President calls upon the Toastmaster of the meeting
- The Toastmaster is the main role player in a meeting
- The Toastmaster introduces himself/herself and calls the following Role Players, which explain their role and how they're going to do it
- Wordmaster: gives us a word of the day that we use throughout the meeting
- Grammarian: takes note of any grammatical erorrs, ahs and uhms
- General Evaluator: evaluates the meeting as a whole and tells us what we did well and what we can improve upon
- Timer: keeps a record of time -- each section has its time allocated
• Table Topics Master now asks impromptu questions based on a meeting Theme
- this is a great part of the meeting: each member that's not speaking gets to answer an impromptu question
- each question is limited to 1-2 minutes and the member is picked after the question is asked
• We vote for best table topic anwer
• We take a 5 minute break
• We begin prepared-speeches portion of the meeting
- We have three prepared speeches, each speech is usually five to seven minutes
• We begin general-evalution portion of the meeting
- Each speech is evaluated by an assigned evaluator
• General Evaluator calls upon individual role players to give their reports and gives his/her meeting evaluation
• President makes closing remarks
• Jokemaster gives us a joke to end the meeting
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As you can see, we have a lot of different roles. Each role is filled by our current members! A Toastmaster wears many hats, and during your membership you will get to do each of the roles! Great experience.
Stanley K
Vice President of Education