7 unique tips to prepare for a speech evaluation in Toastmasters

As they say, as water is to trees, evaluation is to Toastmasters. Evaluation is the heart of Toastmasters educational program. A good speech evaluation is a multi-step process. It's like a conversation with the speaker and the audience. If the evaluator giving evaluation prepare before they deliver, they can raise definitely raise the level of their evaluation. Here I have tried to deep-dive into 7 unique tips of speech evaluation that every evaluator should keep in mind and prepare before hand.

About Deepak K Sharma

Deepak is a professional speaker, experiential trainer, public speaking & communication coach. He is a post-graduate in human resource management with 30 years of leadership experience in diverse field as education, hospitality, construction, not-for-profit, public speaking, and training & development. His passion for training and professional speaking pushed him out of his comfort zone of a well-settled job in the year 2008. When he took that decision, he had no clue what training and professional speaking is. He believes very strongly in the quote “Take the decision and then get busy in making it right”. Since then, he has trained and coached 30000+ people across the world on various managerial and behavioral competencies.

He has been associated with Toastmasters International for the last 13 years. In 2019, he won the District 56 (Houston, Texa District) International Speech Championship and was the first runner-up in Evaluation Contest. In 2018 also, he was a finalist in District 41 (India, Bangladesh & Nepal) International speech contest and first runner up in the Evaluation Contest. He is also a professional member of the National Speakers Association, (NSA), a member of the NSA Houston Chapter & Association for Talent Development (ATD) in the US.

He has co-authored the book “Move Mountains” – One story at a time which has become amazon's no 1 best seller in the month of April 2019. These days, he is converting all the 52 stories into the book into videos as part of his series “Sunday Stories”. He strongly believes, every human being is a “Work in Progress”!

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[chosenqueen]

What an amazing video .. #newsubcriber 🥳🥳

[shashankankeshwarapu]

Thankyou very much for the video, Deepak. Really helpful content :)

[hemantvora]

Very valuable info for an evaluation. Clarified and rearranged in an order bits of pieces of evaluation one had based on own experience.

[duamanish]

It was very structured, very meaningful video. It taught me very clearly what are the different parameters of Evaluation.
Very clear, very precise Thank you very much
How we can improve impromptu speaking.

[HingstonLovell]

I have my evaluation speech contest coming up. This video is going to make an impact on me for sure. Thank you so much Deepak Sharma for this.