Professor Elam

Wed July 17, 2013

Here is the agenda for an upcoming Toastmaster Meeting at Southwest Research. As you can see things are quite organized and  run on time. Our TAMUSA Toastmaster group has attended other meetings here in town to get a feel and advice on how to do this in a first class manner. Thanks to Ruben Medrano for sending this to me. I have added a category to this blog for TAMUSA Toastmasters so you can quickly to go all the posts on that subject. 

Slick Talkers

Club 8772

The mission of a Toastmaster Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.

Time*	Role / Agenda Item for July 19, 2013	Member
11:30AM 11:33AM	President Calls Meeting to Order Invocation / Pledge Welcome Guests	Chris Bemben
11:33AM 11:35AM	Invocation The invocation, usually an inspirational thought, is an optional part of club meetings. It is usually delivered by a designated club member at the beginning of the meeting, and is sometimes combined with or replaced by the pledge and/or the thought of the day.	Jana Halverson
11:35AM 11:38AM	Toastmaster The Toastmaster opens the meeting and introduces the other roles. Today's theme is TBD	Chris Bemben
–	Joke Master Provide a prepared short humorous moment at the beginning of the meeting.	Alana Woods, DTM
–	Word Master Provide a word for speakers to use during the meeting. Count the number of times the word is used and not who used it. When called upon during the evaluation portion of the meeting, report on use of the word.	Cameron Monroe
–	Trivia Provide a short predentation on either some topic related to Toastmasters or to the theme of the day	David Vickers, ACB
–	Vote Counter Collect and count votes	Alana Woods, DTM
11:38AM 11:45AM	Speaker #1	David Vickers, ACB
11:45AM 11:52AM	Speaker #2 Manual / Speech / Time: Other Manual or Non Manual Speech Custom Speech (5 to 7 min) Speech Title: TBD	Kwok H. Lai
–	Backup Speaker Ready to speak if needed, Plan to be a speaker at the next meeting if not needed at this one.	Jana Halverson
11:52AM 12:12PM	Table Topics Impromptu speaking. The Table Topics master calls upon several members to deliver 1-2 minute talks on a topic announced right before the member is chosen.	Veronica Trejo
12:12PM 12:15PM	Evaluator #1 Evaluates speaker #1.	Carol Clark
12:15PM 12:18PM	Evaluator #2 Evaluates speaker #2.	Laura Vela, CC
12:18PM 12:23PM	General Evaluator Evaluates the meeting in whole.	David Halverson
12:23PM 12:24PM	Timer Keeps the time of each role and reports times.	Cameron Monroe
12:24PM 12:26PM	Grammarian Evaluates the usage of grammar and acts as the "ah counter".	Eva Carpenter, CC/ALB
12:26PM 12:27PM	Ah Counter Note whenever speakers use "ah", "um", "er" or other filler words. Use the clicker or the bell to let the speakers know when they have used one of these filler words. When called on during the evaluation portion, report on the use of the filler words during the meeting.	Eva Carpenter, CC/ALB
12:27PM 12:30PM	Toastmaster Closes Meeting The Toastmaster returns once more to close the meeting and give some final words about the meeting.	Chris Bemben