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Meeting Structure

Toastmaster meetings have 3 main parts: 
  1.     Prepared speeches
  2.     Impromptu speeches
  3.     Evaluation of speeches
Meetings last for one hour. 


Below is an example agenda 

NOONTIME TOASTMASTERS time: Noon date: 6/3/2009 Agenda 12:05 President - Call to order/ Flag Salute - Invocation - Wordmaster - Introduce Guests/Toastmaster 12:10 Toastmaster - Warm Up Audience - Introduce Evaluation Team - Introduce Speakers: Speaker 1: Subject: Reduce Mortgage interest tax deductions                    (7 to 9 min, 2 to 3 Q&A) persuasive speaking manual-Proj 4- addressing the opposition
Speaker 2: Subject Feeding yourself- A little at at time ( 5 to 7 minutes) 12:30 Table Topic Master - Explain Table Topics - Impromptu speeches - Conduct session - Introduce General Evaluator 12:45 General Evaluator - Call for reports: a) Speech Evaluators (3 min. each)       b) AH Counter (1 min.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . c) Grammarian (1 min.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . d) Timer (1 min.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - General Evaluator Summary 12:52 President’s Summary Old/ new business Invite Guests comments 1:00 pm Sharp - Close meeting