HARKMASTER TOP TIPS
- Bring wrapped chocolates to the meeting.
- Pick-up relevant audience questions from anyone speaking.
- Aim to ask 15 to 20 questions.
What will I learn?
Just like the Grammarian role, this role will give you a great opportunity to improve your listening skills. You’ll also learn how to pick-up the most relevant pieces of information in a speech.
During The Meeting
Please come to the meeting with a box of chocolates or other sweets to give to the members as a reward for answering questions correctly.
Introduce your role by highlighting the importance of active listening skills. Aim to ask about 15 to 20 questions during your segment at the end of the meeting. While the bulk of them may be on what the speakers of the evening said. Do broaden your spectrum too to include other things such as:
- Anything the President may have mentioned in his/her introduction.
- Recommendations given to speakers by the speech evaluators.
- Answers to Table Topics questions.
- Something a guest may have said while introducing themselves.
- Anything interesting that was said during the meeting.
Give the box of chocolates to the Toastmaster to distribute them to attendees answering questions correctly. Once you’ve asked your last question hand the meeting back to the Toastmaster.