Regular Meeting 112, March 4, 2025 (Hybrid)

Road to a stellar MC

At every meeting, we have one member serving as Toastmaster of the Day (TMOD), and she is responsible for facilitating the education portion of the meeting. While it involves some leadership elements as she leads the entire club in preparing for the meeting, there is another important learning opportunity involving this role. It is to learn how effectively MC an event. The TMOD introduces every speaker, the Topicmaster, who facilitates the Table Topics Session, and the General Evaluator, who facilitates the Evaluation Session.

The TMOD at this meeting, Izz, showed how seriously she took this learning opportunity seriously by using different phrases to introduce these people while the TMOD usually tends to use the same favorite phrase to introduce everyone. Trying different phrases will obviously help us become a more effective and competent facilitator faster. Good for you, Izz!

Here are the phrases she used at this meeting:

• Let's welcome Hideo on the stage!!

• The stage is yours!!

• Mariko, go ahead!!

• The spotlight is on you!!

• The floor is yours!!

• Let me welcome Tonette, as the General Evaluator!

Hopefully, more members will try using different phrases in introducing speakers going forward.