Observing Evaluators

05:29 nurin khairi 0 Comments

I have only been joining Toastmasters for one of the clubs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a little more than a month. For today's session I have volunteered to be the Timer for the first time. But I shall get to that later.

What I wanted to say is about a newbie observing how being an Evaluator works. Well, yes being an Evaluator requires you to evaluate one of the person who did his/her prepared speech on that day. And I think one of the criteria to being a successful evaluator is to address the good points and the not so good ones. You lace the bad ones with the good ones so that even if the speech really sucks, you still have something good to say such as, "your voice is audible, I like it when you project your voice like that".

That is fine when he/she does hv an audible voice when that's the only good thing that you can say about his/her speech. But like today, man, one of the speeches I think quite bad for an ACB speech (I am almost impelled to say "sucks" but hey, cannot mah, this is Toastmasters!), and yet they evaluator said "Your speech is really good, I really enjoyed it" *dropped onto the floor*

I can't meddle with my words that's for sure. In the future if I were to become an Evaluator, (which I have to coz I need it yo complete my CL), strategically I will have to choose my speaker so I don't have a hard time trying to think of what to complement him/her.

Overall I found Toastmasters to be great. It is a positive environment to train oneself to public speak. I think I enjoyed it, but on the "kurang hebat" speaker, one thg I'm telling myself: hello I might well be like that kan..how would I know right? So don't kutuk sekarang!