Toastmaster Role
The Toastmaster is a meeting’s director and host. You won’t usually be assigned this role until you are thoroughly familiar with the club and its procedures. As the Toastmaster, you’ll coordinate speakers and work to fill all the roles for the meeting. Once in the meeting you will introduce each speaker and ask each participant to explain a little about their role. :

Timer Role
The timer is responsible for monitoring time for each meeting segment and each speaker. You’ll also operate the timing signal, indicating to each speaker how long he or she has been talking. Serving as timer is an excellent opportunity to practice giving instructions and time management – something we do every day.

Distractions Role
The purpose of the Distractions Role is to note any word or sound used as a crutch by anyone who speaks during the meeting. Words may be inappropriate interjections, such as and, well, but, so and you know. Sounds may be ah, um or er. You should also note when a speaker repeats a word or phrase such as “I, I” or “This means, this means.” These words and sounds can be annoying to listeners. The Ah-Counter role is an excellent opportunity to practice your listening skills.

Speaker Role
A major portion of each meeting is dedicated to prepared speeches. Typically one to three speakers participate by delivering speeches that meet guidelines outlined in the Competent Communication (CC) manual and the Advanced Communication Series (ACS). Preparation is essential to success when you are the speaker.

Table Topics Master Role
Table Topics continues a long-standing Toastmasters tradition – every member speaks at a meeting. But it’s about more than just carrying on an anxiety-ridden tradition. Table Topics is about developing your ability to organize your thoughts quickly and respond to an impromptu question or topic. The Topics master will state the question or topic briefly and then call on a respondent. Each speaker receives a different topic or question and participants are called on at random.

Master Evaluator Role
The master evaluator introduces each of the speech evaluators, covers any additional feedback that an evaluator might have missed and evaluates the meeting as a whole.

Evaluator Role
Every speaker delivering a prepared speech receives an evaluation from an evaluator. As an evaluator you will employ active listening skills and evaluate your assigned speaker based on the criteria outlined in the Competent Communication (CC) manual or the Advanced Communication Series (ACS) manual. Record your impressions in the manual, along with your answers to the evaluation questions. Be as objective as possible. Remember that good evaluations may give new life to discouraged members and poor evaluations may dishearten members who tried their best. Always provide specific methods for improving and present them in a positive manner. You will then be asked by the Master Evaluator to stand and provide your feedback to the speaker.