Edina Meeting Info

Schedule

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Agenda

7:40 – 7:50 Business Meeting (10 minutes)

  • Sergeant at Arms starts the meeting and invites Club’s
    President.
  • Club’s President welcomes club to read pledge of allegiance
    and invites Invocation/Timer to say meeting invocation.

    • Welcomes guests
  • Club conducts Business Meeting (Presiding Officers Present)
    (10-15 minutes, if needed)

    • Reading of the minutes from last meeting
    • Old business
    • New business
    • Announcements
  • Club’s President welcomes Toastmaster

7:50 – 7:55 Toastmaster (5 minutes)

  • Welcomes members and guests; explains his role
  • The Toastmaster introduces Key meeting participants and asks
    them to explain their duties

    • Court Jester
    • Invocation/Timer
    • Grammarian
    • One Minute Toastmaster
    • Table Topic Master

7:55 – 8:15 Table Topics Master (10 – 20 minutes)

  • Gives topic of the day and call on people to speak
  • Turn meeting back over to Toastmaster

8:15 – 8:20 Break. Toastmaster announces break for 5 minutes

  • General Evaluator pairs speakers and evaluators

8:20 – 8:50  Toastmaster starts ‘speaking’ part of the
meeting (30 minutes)

  • Introduces Speaker 1 (5-7 minutes)
  • Introduces Speaker 2 (5-7 minutes)
  • Introduces Speaker 3 (5-7 minutes)
  • Welcomes General Evaluator to conduct evaluation part of the
    meeting

8:50 – 8:55 General Evaluator conducts meeting
evaluation (15 minutes)

  • Conducts voting for the Best Speaker
  • Calls for evaluations – one by one calls evaluators to
    report
  • Conducts voting for the Best Evaluator
  • Calls for reports:
    • Timer
    • Grammarian awards “Word Picture of the Day” award.
      The award is for best visual expression during any speech given at the meeting.
      Currently big pencil.
    • Calls Table Topic Master to award the Best Table
      Topic Speech. Currently “Wise owl”.
  • Awards “The Best Visual Effect” award. The award
    goes for the best visual presentation or picture.
  • Awards Best Evaluator award. Currently
    key-chain-with-talking-fish.
  • Awards Best Speaker award
  • Overall meeting evaluation.
  • Welcomes back Toastmaster

8:55 – 8:58 Toastmaster finalizes the meeting (3
minutes)

  • Awards “Spark Plug”. The award goes to a
    member who was the most igniting or energizing during the meeting.
  • Awards “Fuzzy Mouse” awards.  “Fuzzy
    Mouse” purpose is to be awarded for the best explanation of complex
    technical topic or idea in the most elegant, simple and understandable way.
  • Closing comments (2 minutes)
  • Welcomes Presiding Officers

8:58 – 9:00 Presiding Officer last minute updates (Is
schedule complete for the next 2 meetings) (2-5 minutes)

  • Invocation/Timer – closing thought of the meeting.
  • Adjourn

Each week, meeting roles rotate so that, over time, every chapter member gains
experience in each of these roles.