I just love this new idea. It's an example of celebrating something that's
desirable, thereby encouraging its expression and refinement.
Last night, I thought of an "alternate" evaluation format. It would be a
more formal way of doing Round Robin. Since the big issue with Round Robin
(no comment on your weight, Mr. McIntosh! :) is TIME, here's my idea:
- Round Robin is offered to speakers as an alternative to traditional
evaluation. To select this, they must notify the Toastmaster well in
advance of the meeting.
- Round Robin is limited in time to 3 minutes, the same as conventional
Evaluation.
- The one minute for filling out evaluation forms is gone. Instead, the
Toastmaster asks people for 1 - 2 BRIEF BULLETS, limited to 30 seconds.
- A further Speaker's option: do they want praise and constructive
criticism, or just the latter? For speeches that the person plans to refine
and deliver again, the Criticism Only option will enable maximum
constructive feedback.
- If you had important feedback for the Speaker and weren't called on,
write a short note on the form. Likewise, in the "Criticism Only" option,
positive feedback can be written on the form and handed to the person, same
as now.
- If each evaluator is limited to 30 seconds, we can have 6 - 12 Round
Robin evaluations in the same time as a regular Evaluation.
- Timer cuts off anyone going over 30 seconds. (A simple app enables
this.)
- If all the Evaluations in an evening are Round Robin, we could award
the Best Evaluator based on this criterion: Most helpful feedback, pithily
delivered.
- If there is only a single conventional Evaluation, then we would need
a different way to award Best Evaluator. I am stumped by this one.
- This offers speakers the opportunity to receive feedback in whichever
format they find most useful, without compromising the schedule.
Improvements, as always, are possible. :)
BTW, for conventional Evaluations, Jennifer has a printout of the
four-quadrant method that Phil so beautifully presented. It's an
alternative to the traditional "Sandwich" evaluation, which helps the
Evaluator make sure they're covering everything. Jen would gladly provide
this to anyone interested, and I'd suggest we upload it to Lori's set of
helpful FRTM files.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Alan Wong <drwongdds27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings Fellow Toastmasters,
This Thursday on 20 April, a new role will be introduced. The new role is
Gesture Master. Dirk Kittredge will be the evaluator. Dirk will also
explain the role in more detail during the meeting. We will all vote for
the best Gesture Master and a prize will be given at the end of the
meeting. We will have best speech, best evaluator, best table topics and a
best gesture master. This will add new meaning to the phrase "Talk to the
hand". The new phrase to think about will be "Talk with the hand".
The definition of Gesture. 1. A movement of part of the body, especially
a hand or the head, to express an idea or meaning. 2. The use of such
movements to express thought, emotion. 3. Any action, courtesy,
communication intended for effect or as a formality, considered expression.
Enjoy the day. Happy Sunday everybody.
Alan Wong
