The General Evaluator is responsible for the evaluation of the entire meeting.

In practice, this means evaluating every participant, except prepared speakers who have individual evaluators and topics speakers who are evaluated by the Topics Evaluator.

PREPARATION
Using the programme, familiarise yourself with the structure of the meeting which may vary from time to time and may also be different from that used at other clubs.

You should also try to be familiar with the 1stLondon Toastmasters meeting Guidelines that describe each role as performed in our club.

In particular, unlike some other clubs our General Evaluators work alone as observers of the meeting and not as managers of an evaluation team.

AT THE MEETING
1) Arrive early as the meeting normally starts promptly at the planned time.
2) Take notes on everything that happens (or fails to happen) at the meeting and pay particular attention to the overall management of the meeting as well as the performance of those taking on official roles.

Your report should comment on the quality of preparation, organisation, delivery and general performance of each individual.

Although the General Evaluator does not evaluate prepared speakers or topics speakers, you might occasionally want to add something important that an individual evaluator may have missed.

You should try to recognise and encourage examples of good performance but we also need recommendations on ways to improve what we do.

3) When called upon by the Toastmaster to give your report, you may want / need to begin with a very brief explanation of your role.

As General Evaluator, you should also set an example of good timekeeping. We usually allow 10 minutes, so there is very little time to comment on each person. The light signals are usually Green at 6 mins, Amber at 8 mins and Red at 10 mins.