As a Grammarian, your job is to monitor the language and grammar usage throughout the meeting. You also get the fun job of bringing the Word of the Day!
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Invocation & Pledge AKA Starting the Meeting
Woohoo! You signed up to start the meeting. While this is a small role, it is pretty important. The Invocation and Pledge section of the meeting has two purposes.
Continue reading “Invocation & Pledge AKA Starting the Meeting”Meeting Role Tutorials
If you signed up for a meeting role and want to double check how to do it, you’ve come to the right place! As Toastmasters, we have lots of different roles to fulfill in each meeting. Toastmasters International has a great resource explaining each role: A Toastmaster Wears Many Hats. Below is a list of each meeting role and resources specific to that role. Hope this helps!
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Copied from Medium with permission from the author (myself), and altered to fit a virtual meeting format.
Congratulations! You signed up to be Toastmaster for your very first time! Don’t worry, it’s not as scary as it looks. With just a little preparation and a whole lot of fun, your Toastmaster debut can go smoothly. (If this isn’t your first time, these tips may still help).
Continue reading “Your Toastmaster Debut”How to.. uh.. be an.. um.. Ah Counter
Copied from Medium with permission from the author (myself), and altered to fit a virtual meeting format.
That title is hard to read, right? When people use those same filler words (“um”, “uh”, etc) in a speech, it can be distracting and hard to understand their content. This is why the role of Ah Counter in Toastmasters is so important.
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