Club Role - Speaker

While your main focus as a speaker is on preparing your speech ready for delivery on the morning, it is important that you keep in contact with the Chairman and your Speech Evaluator.

The Chairman should contact you well prior to the meeting to confirm that you are on track to deliver your speech, but don't rely on this to remind you that you have a speech. Make sure that the Chairman knows of any special requirements you have, such as timing, needing the OHP, any special room layout or the use of props.

Discuss your speech and your objectives, both manual and personal objectives, with your evaluator prior to the meeting.

Remember to bring your manual to the meeting.

When you arrive in the morning confirm where you are on the agenda, and that all your requirements have been met. If you need to set things up for your speech try to do so before the meeting or at the break, not after you have been introduced. Sit where you can get out easily. It is a good idea to sit well away from your evaluator - it is quite unsettling to finish your speech and be able to read the evaluator's notes while you are waiting for the oral evaluation.

During the meeting try to relax and not keep reading your notes - it is distracting for the other speakers. If you need a last-minute practice use another room. Feel free to decline to take part in table topics if you are called - you are doing quite enough speaking anyway.

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