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The Emperor's New Clothes: Evaluating with Precision and Care

Learn to evaluate speakers at all levels effectively, avoiding the pitfalls of the Emperor's fate. Tips for different speaker types and club settings to provide constructive feedback and empower growth. Embrace the role of a helpful evaluator in Toastmasters.

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The Emperor's New Clothes: Evaluating with Precision and Care

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  1. You Can Evaluate Anyone…No Matter the Speaker’s Level Or Fashion Critique of the Emperor’s New Clothes Jack Levitt, DTM

  2. Objective To motivate and enlighten current/ future Evaluators to ensure that NO speaker or club suffers the same fate as ‘the Emperor’

  3. Emperor #1—The ‘Manual Speaker’ • Why do prospective members join? • Basic Manual projects - key purpose • Be encouraging; identify strengths • In NON-THREATENING, CONSTRUCTIVE manner, offer SPECIFIC feedback • May feel like you’re discouraging speaker, but feedback is reason he joined! • Don’t treat speaker like Emperor . ..

  4. Emperor #2—The Advanced Speaker • Advanced Speakers want to specialize • Designation like CTM, et al, does not immunize speaker against feedback • Focus on specific objectives of each assignment • Don’t focus on Basic Manual skills unless something is particularly noteworthy • Great training for entire audience • ‘Letters’ after speaker’s name do not qualify him/her to be treated like Emperor

  5. Emperor #3—The Grammatically Challenged • Grammar - key tool in speaker’s arsenal • Used correctly and effectively, speaker instills confidence and interest • Used incorrectly, even brightest speaker may be viewed less favorably by audience • Grammatical gems - as important as misuses • ESL speakers want to improve their grammar! • Not providing a speaker feedback for improvement can put him in as awkward a position as that of the Emperor

  6. Emperor #4—The Wizard of Ahs • Verbal pauses cause unnecessary distractions • Ah Counter reports unintelligible utterances • While essentially sole ‘no good news’ report, members NEED this feedback • Making speaker “Ahs” conscious -- the only cure • Our job to ensure kingdom of Toastmasters free of Wizards and poorly dressed Emperors

  7. Emperor #5—The Club • Club meeting -- where first impressions are made • Careless attention to details results in meetings perceived as disorganized • Improper performance of assigned roles diminishes effectiveness • General Evaluator observes/provides feedback on areas that detract from smooth execution of meeting • Areas for observation and comment include ( but are not limited to): • Condition of meeting space • Timing • Performance of roles (other than speakers) • Emperor needs to be truly well-dressed; many eyes watching and developing impressions

  8. Being the Emperor’s Fashion Critic • “Feedback is the most valuable gift” (Kera Greene, DTM) • Be generous…give early.. give often…and always constructively • Remember WHY members choose Toastmasters for development • Do your part to help fellow members achieve that goal • Keep in mind what happened to Hans Christian Andersen’s Emperor when he lacked feedback • Be sure no member suffers same fate because you wanted to be ‘NICE’

  9. A NICE Evaluator Nothing Inside me Cares Enough

  10. Questions??

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