Meeting Roles

Understanding club meeting roles

The success of a Toastmasters meeting depends on the program participants. There are many roles to fill, and each job is designed to improve the members’ public speaking and leadership skills. Program participants must know and understand their duties so they can prepare for them.

   <-----To the left are resources for the various roles

Meeting Roles

When you join a Toastmaster group, 

you'll participate in all different meeting roles:

Toastmaster - That days master of ceremonies. Creates the agenda, leads the program. Introduces the Word-of-the-Day to be used to everyone, especially in table Topics.

Speaker - Give speeches on topics of their choosing based on the Toastmasters' speech manual assignments.

Evaluator - Evaluates the speakers publicly per their manual objectives, fills out the manual evaluation form in the manual.

Grammarian - Listens for Gems and Germs of English. Recognizes interesting use of words, alliteration and colorful phrases

Ah Counter - Count "ums", "ahs" and other distracting inserts.

General Evaluator - Evaluates the entire meeting. Offers suggestions for improvement. May comment on evaluations and table topics.

Table Topics Master - Introduces topics for the meeting's impromptu portion of the meeting. Tries to involve members not already speaking.

Timekeeper - Times all aspects of the meeting: Helps Toastmaster and club members run meeting on time. Gives Timekeeper's report


More resources: 

    A guide to meeting assignments
    http://www.d70toastmasters.org/pdfs/Assignment_Guide.PDF
Subpages (2): Speakers Toastmaster