Meeting Roles and TMOD - BLANKSITE

This page explains various roles in the regular meeting. It also provides script and tips. Useful files are also available at Public Downloads. When you are assigned to a speech, be sure to bring your manuals to allow your evaluator to write a written evaluation for you.

1.  Club Bylaws
2.  Competent Communication Manual (Objectives)
3.  Competent leadership Manual
4.  Advanced Manuals (Descriptions)
5.  Scripts (Timer, Vote Counter, GRAHCO)
6.  Tips for Table Topics Master
7.  Tips on Evaluation
8.  Agenda Sample (Members Only Downloads)
9.  Tips forTMOD (Members Only Downloads)
10.  Glossary
11. You Can't Talk About That
12. Rules, Guidelines, Shopping - Introduction of TI Site


Description:

1. Club Bylaws
These bylaws and constitution are used by all toastmasters club worldwide.

2. Competent Communication Manual (List of objectives)

3. Competent leadership Manual
Read page 58 of your Competent Communication Manual on Communication and Leadership Tracks. This explains how to use the above two manuals includedin the new member kit. Members should bring two manuals everytime
they serve a role.

4. Advanced Manuals
Read page 76 of your Competent Communication Manual
Upon completion of the first ten projects of Competent Communication Manual you will acquire the title CC (Competent Communicater) and be entitled to choose two manuals from 15 advanced manuals. The fees for the first two advanced manuals are included in your original payment on your application for membership.

5. Scripts
Your first roles in the meeting will be invocation (Mission of the club, Thought of the day, vote counter, timer, and perhaps later GRAHCO (gra-cou).  You will be requested to give an explanation of your role by TMOD (tea-mode:
Toastmaster Of The Day) at the start of the meeting. Feel free to modify

these scripts (except for the Mission of the Club) to create your own version.

When you are TMOD, and need to call a member, call the person as Toastmaster so and so - rather than TM (tea-em) so and so - even though the abbreviation may be used on the agenda. On the other hand GRAHCO and TMOD are acronyms and used as such. TMOD is preferably called Toastmaster or Madam Toastmaster typically at the start or end of a speech. Toastmaster of the Day is also used for this purpose.

6. Tips for Tabletopics Master: To make your session most exciting.

7. Tips on Evaluation: For a positive and effective evaluation.

8. Agenda Sample: This file is at the Members Only Downloads.
* This sample can be used for overwriting: when you are TMOD

9. Tips for TMOD: This file is at the Members Only Downloads. Please find * "TMOD_duties_as_of_909.pdf" .

10. Glossary

11. You Can't Talk About That!

Members often tell us that other Toastmasters have told them that speeches concerning politics, religion and sex are forbidden by Toastmasters International because "such controversial subjects are not appropriate."This is not true. Toastmasters International does not prohibit any speech topic, content or language. Toastmasters International recognizes club members may learn much about the world around them from listening to others’speeches on a variety of subjects. This variety can add interest to club meetings and stimulate thoughts and ideas. For these reasons, Toastmasters International does not place restrictions on topics, content, or language of any speeches. It also recognizesthat a club is a diverse group of people and recommends members be sensitive to this diversity and use good taste and responsibility when selecting speech topics, content, and language. While Toastmasters International has no restrictions, a club may guide its nembers on how to observe good taste and sensitivity in the context of that particular club.

(from TIPS, toastmasters Bimonthly Magazine)