Looking for any information that can give me a competitive edge, I saw Jeffrey Washington's presentation "Inspiring Evaluations". Jeffrey's presentation was in two parts.
The first part was on the different approaches in evaluting an Icebreaker versus an experienced speaker.
The second part was Evaluation Speech Contest tips. Jeffrey is a previous District F Evaluation Speech Contest Winner. Here is Part One...
#1 Goal of evaluator is to help speaker improve.
Two fears that can hinder an evaluator:
1. Don't want to hurt the speaker's feelings
2. Don't know if speaker takes feedback well.
Four Areas to be covered:
1. Icebreaker vs Veteran Speaker
2. Being specific and demonstrate feedback
3. Use humor
4. Evaluating the English as 2nd language speaker
Being prepared to evaluate:
1. Always bring your CC manual to the meeting
2. Call speaker beforehand to ask if speaker has any areas to be focused on for evaluation. By calling beforehand, motivates speaker to bring "A Game" to presentation.
Evaluating the Icebreaker:
Remember the speaker is doing a lot of negative self-talk. To address this give a praise heavy evalution. At the most, give one area to improve. Also acknowledge speaker's anxiety by pointing out courage to give 1st speech.
Evaluating the Experienced Speaker:
Can provide more constructive criticism even to the most experienced speaker, even to as accomplished a speaker as President Obama: http://www.toastmasters.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/Media/PressReleases/Evaluation-of-Inaugural-Speech.aspx
Also, ask the experienced speaker if any areas to focus evaluation on. As Jeffrey Washington says, "You may be a new Toastmaster, but you are not a new person."
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