General Evaluator

The General Evaluator gives an overall evaluation of the meeting.  His or her evaluation of the presiding officer, the Toastmaster, the Topic-master, and the other evaluators can have a great impact on the attitudes of the members.  The General Evaluator should give each speech evaluator a strong review of their performance.  Be sure to point out specific examples of what they did effectively and maybe one or two specific examples of things that were less effective.

Before the meeting, the General Evaluator should contact the Speech Evaluators, the Table Topics Evaluator, and the Vote Counter.  Confirm their ability to attend the meeting and make sure they understand their jobs.  Make sure that each Speech Evaluator knows which manual project their speaker will be delivering.  Make sure they read and understand all the objectives of their speakers project.  Let them know that they are to contact their assigned speaker in advance of the meeting to verify the assignment project and to understand any personal objectives that the Speaker may be working on.

As General Evaluator, you will need to contact the Toastmaster of the meeting to confirm that each of those youve contacted will be present.  This is also a good time to give your personal introduction information to the Toastmaster.  (You wont need to contact the Grammarian and Ah Counter, even though you will be calling on them as members of your evaluation team.  Its the Toastmaster who will make the pre-meeting contact, because the Toastmaster introduces them at the beginning of the meeting to explain their jobs, and may want to give some introductory information about them.)

By Wednesday afternoon, contact the person who prepares the printed meeting agenda.  They too need to know that those you contacted will be present and carrying out their assignments, so the agendas will be correct.

At the meeting, the Toastmaster will introduce you as the General Evaluator at the beginning of the evaluation portion of the meeting.  You take control and remain at the lectern, while the Toastmaster sits down.  You remain at the lectern throughout the evaluation portion the other members of your team will stand and speak at their seats.  Introduce the Table Topics Evaluator and each Speech Evaluator, using the introduction you obtained from them.  Then call on the Grammarian and Ah Counter for their reports (no special introduction needed).  Give your evaluation of the evaluators and overall evaluation of the meeting.  Suggest specific improvements, but end on a positive note as you return control to the Toastmaster.