Hello there!
Your lovely VPE Hamzah here to provide you another guide, once again :)
TME is one of the most amazing, stressful, but still amazing roles to have as it is the closest that you can get to practise your emcee-ing skills in our chapter meeting! To be frank, there is no exact style of “running the show”, but based on my experience there is a specific structure to all chapter meetings (for more information, get your mentor to help you out).
Just introduce accordingly to relevant personnel to do their things (e.g birthday celebration, etc)
For Table topics, just follow the same thing, just that you will hand it over to the table topics master :)
Once done, TTM will hand it back to you and you will hand it back to the President for the closing address.
Below is a sample TME script that i used in the past for my TME duties. Feel free to make a copy of it and modify it to suit your style! Remember, you are the one leading this chapter meeting. Be natural, be yourself, and as always, have fun :)
Thank you so much, and an amazing evening to one and all! Welcome to the _th Chapter Meeting! It is an honor to be given the opportunity to be the Toastmaster of this delightful evening for my AMAZING family, Tampines Changkat.
Before we proceed on with our meeting, I believe that it is crucial that we honor these appointment holders, whom you may think that their jobs are simple, but they certainly aren’t:
The Sergeant-At-Arms for tonight’s chapter meeting ensures that the meeting is on schedule as well as ensuring that the food provided to both our members and guests are well taken care of. His introduction is as follows:
<member intro here, or invent one if you're creative>
He / she is none other than our beloved Toastmaster _
The timer’s responsibility involves the precision of not only recording the exact number of minutes and seconds for speakers and evaluators, but he ensures that any person who takes the stage will be mindful of the time provided. When asked for his/her introduction, it goes something like this:
<member intro here, or invent one if you're creative>
Here to plod things along and keep timeliness throughout the meeting, please welcome Toastmaster _____
The Ah Counter for this evening has officially been reinstated as a member of Tampines Changkat Toastmasters (finally!). Ever since she has achieved her dual membership status, has suffered a huge, massive blow.. To her wallet. However this has driven her to be “slightly” obsessed with earning every 10 cent that she can get from the ‘ahs’, ‘umms’ and other filler words during the chapter meeting.
Honing her superb listening ability skills with the intent to grow our club fund, a round of applause for Toastmaster __________
Last, but not the least, we have the honor of witnessing a General Evaluation segment, which involves
Before we proceed, I would like to request everyone in the room to ensure that your mobile phones are switched off or put to Silent mode. Please refrain from exiting or entering the meeting room when there is a speech that is being delivered.
Without further ado, let’s move on to the President’s address.<ask president for introduction>
Thank you _____ for your inspiring speech.
[IF General Evaluator]
The General Evaluator for tonight is no stranger to the Tampines Changkat Toastmasters.<Get his introduction here>
[IF Language Evaluator introducing Word of the Day]
The General Evaluator for tonight is no stranger to the Tampines Changkat Toastmasters.<Get his introduction here>
Thank you ______ for the word of the day. Let us all ensure that we use the word of the day not only within our speeches and evaluations, but also our conversations that we have with each other throughout the chapter meeting, or even the refreshment breaks.
[Prepared Speeches]
Next will be the Prepared Speeches segment, in which our three speakers for tonight have practiced long and hard for this moment.
The first speaker is presenting an Icebreaker speech as part of his Level 1 project on the Innovating Planning Pathway Track. I would like to invite his project evaluator ________ to read out the project objectives.
Thank you _____. The project speech duration is about 4 to 6 minutes, and the timing sequence for the speech is as follows:At the 4th minute, the green light will be shown.At the 5th minute, the amber light will be shown.At the 6th minute, the red light will be shown.The speaker has 30 seconds to wrap up the speech before the bell goes.. “ring”
Our first speaker: <intro here>
Is everyone starving now? Good! It is now time for refreshments! Please be back here by <time here> so that we can start the meeting proper, thank you.
[After Refreshments Break]
Welcome back everyone! Glad to see at everyone has at least enjoyed the refreshments tonight. Can we give a round of applause to our SAA and the members who helped out to provide the food for us?
Next on the meeting line-up is the Prepared Speech Evaluations! This is the time when Toastmasters provide constructive feedback to our speakers in order for them to deliver future speeches to greater heights!
All evaluators will only have 2 to 3 minutes to present their feedback, and the timing sequence is as follows:At the 2 minute mark, the green light will be shown.At the 2 minutes 30 seconds mark, the amber light will be shown.At the 3 minute mark, the red light will be shown.The speaker has 30 seconds to wrap up the speech before the bell goes.. “ring”
<First evaluator intro here..do the same for 2nd, 3rd, 4th>
And now the moment most of us have been waiting for, the Table Topics segment. For those guests who are unaware of what Table Topics is, it is one of the most exciting but nerve-wrecking segments that involve creating a short speech with a topic determined by our lovely Table Topics Master.
<intro for TTM here>
The final evaluation, is the BIGGEST one of them all: the General Evaluation. The General Evaluation provides feedback to not only the proceedings of the chapter meeting but also to the various appointment holders within the chapter meeting in order for all of us to enjoy high quality chapter meetings that is beneficial for all of us.
Our General Evaluator began his Toastmasters journey with Temasek Polytechnic Toastmasters in the year 2000, and joined Tampines Changkat Toastmasters in 2004. He had served in various capacities in early days like Club Vice President of Education and Area S4 Governor in 2005, and Club President and Division S Governor in 2006. An interesting fact that he discovered a couple of nights ago is that the last time he delivered a General Evaluation at our club was on 4 November 2010. Now almost 10 years later, to once again deliver the General Evaluation, please welcome Distinguished Toastmaster Nathaniel Koh!
Thank you Nathaniel for that amazing Language Evaluation!
It has been a truly amazing experience being the Toastmaster of the Evening for today, and I thank all of you for your energy, for your support, and for your love in making my night simply amazing. And this is all possible because i am in the one place that I love to call it my home; my home sweet home. This is your TME signing off~ I would like to invite our President for the awards, announcements and his closing address.