How do you know if you are ready? Below are some guidelines on where we think most members should be when they accept a role for the first time. Your skills and experience may vary. Feel free to ask your mentor or a club Board member if you are unsure.
Sign up for a role on the online agenda in EasySpeak, or email your VPE (vpe@sitm.se) to express your interest.
After you accept a role, be sure to prepare yourself by reading the instructions and preparing whatever materials you might need.
Word of the day, timekeeper, grammarian and ah-counter, table topic master
You can sign up for these roles when you have seen them in action and feel ready to give them a try. There is no need to complete a prepared speech before you try these roles. Remember the saying: Toastmasters is a safe place to fail.
Speech evaluator
Evaluators play an important role at Toastmasters meetings. Evaluations are the reason most of us come to Toastmasters, so we want to ensure that they are constructive and that they serve to encourage and motivate the speaker.
You are probably ready to begin evaluating others’ speeches if you have:
- Presented four or five projects from your Competent Communication manual.
- Performed a couple of other roles, for example Grammarian and Timekeeper.
In order to evaluator a speech from the Competent Communication manual, you should be at least one or two projects ahead of the speech you are evaluating.
If you are evaluating a speech from a more advanced manual, you should be an experienced member (though you need not necessarily have completed the same speech that you are evaluating).
Toastmaster of the Evening
You are probably ready for the Toastmaster of the Evening role if you have:
- Presented four or five projects from your Competent Communication manual.
- Performed a couple of other roles, for example Grammarian and Timekeeper.
General Evaluator (GE)
This role is generally offered to more experienced members (even more experienced than the Toastmaster of the Evening). If you want to try this role, you are probably ready for it if you have:
- Served as speech evaluator several times.
- Performed other roles at least four or five times.
- Recommended: Serve as Toastmaster before you serve as General Evaluator.
Are you wondering how to sign up?