General Evaluator

The quality-control officer of the meeting. They evaluate the evaluators and give feedback on how well the overall meeting ran.

Role overview

As General Evaluator, you lead the evaluation portion of the meeting. You introduce the speech evaluators, call for the functionary reports (Timer, Ah Counter, Grammarian), and then give a brief overall assessment of how the meeting ran—what worked well and what the club can improve next time.

Think of yourself as the meeting’s quality-control lead. This role builds listening, organization, and the ability to deliver constructive feedback to the whole club, not just one speaker.

Opening remarks

When introduced by the Toastmaster, stand and state the following:

Thank you, Mr./Madam Toastmaster, fellow Toastmasters, and guests:

Evaluations are one of the most valuable components of the Toastmasters experience. They help us grow as speakers by providing thoughtful feedback on what we did well and where we can improve.

Each evaluation should focus on how the speech was delivered and how effectively the speaker met the objectives of their project.

Let’s begin with our speech evaluations.

Speech evaluations

Evaluating [Speaker Name]’s speech: [Speech Title or Project]
Evaluating [Speaker Name]’s speech: [Speech Title or Project]
(Continue as needed)

After all evaluations are complete

Thank you to all of our evaluators for your thoughtful feedback.

Timer, may we please have your report?

[TIMER’S REPORT]

Ah Counters, may we please have your report?

[AH COUNTER’S REPORT]

Grammarian, may we please have your report?

[GRAMMARIAN REPORT]

Table Topics Master, may we please announce the winner for tonight’s Table Topics?

[TABLE TOPICS WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT — GIVE RIBBON TO WINNER]

(The Table Topics Master and Super Admins can see the winner on the agenda during the meeting. After the meeting is completed, the winner also appears on this General Evaluator reports section for everyone.)

Joke Master

To bring us a little humor, let’s welcome our Joke Master: _______________________.

General evaluation of the meeting

As General Evaluator, I will now provide my evaluation of tonight’s meeting.

What went well:

[Your observations here]

Areas for improvement:

[Suggestions for the club]

Final positives:

[End on an encouraging note]

Closing

Thank you all once again. I now return control of the meeting to our Toastmaster of the Evening, [insert name].

Getting started