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President's Tip of the Week

Evaluating Someone with More Speaking Experience
(3/3/08)

As a new Toastmaster, you will almost always be called upon to evaluate someone with more experience than you have. Don't let this panic you! Being a good evaluator isn't the same as being an experienced speaker. To use an analogy, a restaurant reviewer only needs to be an expert on eating food, not preparing it.

Evaluation has three main components:

  •  Listening
  • Critical thinking
  • Sharing your opinion about what you saw and heard

The Competent Leader manual offers projects that will help you develop your skills in all three areas. This information is contained in the first three projects in the manual. Be sure to take advantage of what is offered there.

Before you give your first evaluation, ask your mentor to give you some tips on evaluation. Your mentor can also provide you with feedback after your evaluation so that you know where your strengths lie and what you can work on for the next evaluation assignment.

In the meantime, take notes during evaluations at the meetings you attend. Listen to how experienced evaluators structure their feedback and the types of feedback they provide.

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