Madam President, Fellow Toastmasters, Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Evening

Sample of TME Script – 26/5/07

Mr President, Fellow Toastmasters, Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Good evening and welcome to Sunway TOASTMASTERS Meeting No ….. It is my pleasure to be your genial Toastmaster of the Evening

( TME personal message. Suggest to link the message to Toastmasters movement)

Before we go on into the actual agenda, I would like to share with you a brief history of Toastmasters International.

History

Toastmasters International is a non profit organisation. Most importantly Toastmasters produces result. Why do I say so? Around the world more than 3 million men and women form all ages have benefited form Toastmasters training and more than 1,000 corporations, universities, government agencies use Toastmasters training.

The first Toastmasters club was founded in the basement of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California in 1924. Toastmasters was the brain child of Dr Ralph C Smedley.

Present

Today there are around 211,000 members worldwide in around 10,500 clubs in more than 90 countries!! In Malaysia alone, we have around 250 clubs. Sunway Toastmasters Club is in Area C3 under Division C. An Area is made up of 4-5 clubs. 4-5 Areas formed a Division and from few Divisions formed a District. Malaysia is in District 51 together with Indonesia and Brunei with the total of 13 Divisions with more than 250 clubs and more than 11,000 members. District 51 has been the no 1 district in the world having achieved the President’s Distinguished District status for 10 consecutive years.

Toastmasters International mission

Is to make effective communication a worldwide reality. Through its members clubs, Toastmasters International helps men and women learn the arts of speaking, listening and thinking which in turn will foster self-confidence and personal growth.

1 Sunway Toastmasters Club mission

The mission of Sunway Toastmasters Club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth.

How do you grow in Toastmasters Club

How does a Toastmaster Club help nurture you to be a great communicator? When you first join Toastmasters, you will receive a variety of manuals and resources on speaking. The first two manuals you will receive are called the Communication and Leadership Program & Competent Leader Manual. You can do both assignments concurrently. After you complete all 10 speech projects in C&L manual, you may apply for your Competent Communicator (CC) award or complete the CL assignments and apply for Competent Leader Award. After completing CC, member can then choose from any combination of 15 advanced manuals. The Advanced manual ranged from ‘The Entertaining Speaker’ to ‘The Professional Speaker’, ‘Special Occasion Speeches ‘, ‘Storytelling’ and many more.

Additional educational materials include the Success/Leadership and Success/Communication Series, The Better Speaker Series, and the High Performance Leadership Program.

Toastmasters International’s education system includes both a communication track and a leadership track. The communication track award progression features the CC, Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB), Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS), and Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG); the leadership track award progression includes Competent Leader (CL), Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB) & Advance Leader Silver (ALS). When you achieved both the Communication Track & Leadership Track, you will given the highest title Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM).

In addition, you will also receive the award winning ‘The Toastmasters’, a monthly magazine that offers the latest insights on speaking and leadership skills.

Agenda of the Day

2 Now, Fellow Toastmasters, Ladies & Gentlemen we shall move on to our agenda for this evening.

(Star by getting the role players to explain their roles accordingly, always start from Language Evaluator first and GE last)

Immediately after my introduction we shall have an invocation session follow by the table topic session. Members who are not playing any role this evening is strong urged not to miss this opportunity. Volunteer yourself before you are volunteered. Thereafter we shall have the Humour master to tickle our funny bone. Show your support and laugh as loud as you like. Then only we arrived at the Project Speeches Session.

And today, ladies and gentlemen, we have 4 speech assignments ranging from speech no ….. right up to …... Then you will have the feedback sessions which we call the evaluation. Evaluations are breakfast for champions and today’s evaluators will give an honest, encouraging and constructive feedback to speakers. They will point the speaker towards methods of improvement and strive to have the speaker look forward to his/her next speech.

Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome TM……… to present his/her invocation. Remind the Invocator & Timer, time given is …… min (according to agenda)

[Invocator presentation]

Thanks the Invocator for his/her presentation with your own words.

It is ‘think on your feet session’ now and we have TM……… to lead us for the table Topic session. Please give a rousing welcome to TM……….Remind the TTM & Timer, time given is ….. min (According to Agenda).

[Table topic master takes over]

Thanks the TTM for the job well done [Ask to vote for the best table topic speaker using the voting slip available if not yet done by Table Topic Master]

To allow more time to our TTE, we shall move on with HM now, less our HM…ticker your funny bone…Time given is ….min (According to agenda) Thanks the HM and give your comment on his/her presentation if you can

3 I am sure those who have participated in TT just now would probably like to know how well you have done and where are the areas of improvement right? To do this, can you please help me to welcome our Table Topic Evaluator, TM……to give us her/his evaluation. Remind the TTE & Timer, time given is ….min (according to agenda).

Thanks the TTE and comment on his performance if you can..

This conclude the 1st half of our today session and we shall break for … min fellowship (according to agenda). Now is …8:30pm and we shall be back by 8:40pm.

Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to lend your ears to the much-awaited session, the Project Speeches.

PROJECT SPEECHES:

Ladies and Gentlemen: Our FIRST SPEAKER for tonight is ______who will be delivering speech no. ______from the ______manual.

Before I call upon the speaker, I would like to call upon the GE ______to read the objectives of the speech to the speaker as well as note to her/his evaluator, TM….

Thank you GE.

Introduction of Speaker:

Ladies and gentlemen, our speaker is TM……..

[prior to meeting ask the speaker how she /him wants to be introduced. The purpose of the introduction is to highlight the speaker. This is accomplished by explaining who the speaker is , why he .she is addressing the selected subject. Identify the manual project the speaker is presenting. Your introduction establishes this important relationship between the speaker and the audience.]

4 Ladies and gentlemen, let us put our hands together and welcome

(Speaker’s name--Speech title, Speech title--Speaker’s name)

[ Speech presentation]

Thank you ______. (APPLAUSE)

Comments by TME on Speech contents (if any). Not an evaluation report.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Our SECOND SPEAKER tonight is ______who will be delivering speech no______from the______Manual.

[REPEAT STEP AS ABOVE]

P/S: If there is achievement like ICE Breaker, CTM, AMT, CL, remember call for a standing ovation.

Conclusion of project speeches

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We have heard 4 great and fantastic speeches from our excellent speakers. They have raised their standards in speaking again this evening by completing a speech project. Let us all give them a thunderous applause for they courage and spirit to excel.

Ladies & gentlemen , please vote for the best speaker using the voting slip available in front of you.

With that Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the pleasure to hand control to the General Evaluator, …………………….. to preside over the evaluation session.

Our General Evaluator for this evening is our honour Toastmaster guest from ….. [prior to meeting ask the GE how she /him wants to be introduced. The purpose of the introduction is to highlight the GE. Tell the audience which club(s) he/she belongs to, EXCO 5 position/ Area position/ Division position/ district position (if any) Your introduction establishes this important relationship between the speaker and the audience.]

AFTER GENERAL EVALUATION

(Ask to vote if not yet done by GE: “please vote for the best evaluator using the voting slip available in front of you.)

Thank you, G.E

Fellow Toastmasters and friends, its result time and I have the pleasure to invite the our President, ……………….. to come forward to present the certificates.

[President step forward & past you the certification for you to make announcement or you may choose to ask the president to make announcement]

The Best Table Topic Speaker this evening is ……. Drum roll please………TM…………… The Best Speaker today is…………………… ……. Drum roll please………TM…………… The Best Evaluator for this meeting is …… ……. Drum roll please………TM……………

Ladies and genetlemen, I hope you have enjoyed the meeting as much as I have being your Toastmasters of the Evening and I shall hand control to the President of the Club, TM……….

[President takes over and close the meeting]

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