** Being Table Topics Evaluator is one of the most challenging roles that a member can take on, because as soon as the Table Topics session has ended, the Topics Evaluator is called to the front to deliver his/her report. Consequently, there is not much room for thought! You just diliver an improptu speech afer Table Topic speakers. **
Before Meeting
【Competent Leadership】Review your Competent Leader manual to identify the project you arecompleting. Ask the third speech evaluator to review your performance and sign off your project.
【Preparing For AnEffective Evaluation】Review Early Bird Table Topics – What would you commend andrecommend?
【Think about evaluations that you have received in the past】What wasgood about them (or not!)? How would you like to receive feedback?
【Be preparedto offer evaluations for up to 12 speakers】 between 6 – 12 topic speakers on different weeks.
When arrive
Ensure you have the necessary equipment to capture everything (i.e. pen and speech cards), if you good at handwriting, don't be stingy, just give feedback to each perticipants
In the meeting
【Observing The Topic Session】
（1）Watch and listen to the speakers. What did they do well and what feedback could you give them that would help them become even better?
（2）One suggestionis to make notes on individual cards as this will make it easier to focus on feedback.
（3）Think about key learning points from the projects that you have undertaken so far and notice if the speaker does or does not do them i.e.(that is) such as speech organisation; right word selection; variety of pace and pitch of delivery; body language.
【Presenting The Evaluations】
（1）You’ll have about 30 seconds per speaker. If using the C-R-C formula: commend – recommend –commend (), that’s roughly 10 seconds for each element. Be selective with your comments.
（3）CRC isn’t mandatory or compulsive, you may prefer to simply make a series of generalised observations and strong suggestions.
（4）It’sparticularly important to present your feedback in the “third person” (eg,he/she/Robert/Susan) rather.
(5) for the discussion-stle topic, try to use PREP, enhance your point with point-resone-resource-point, which can help you to organized your speech and express yourself better.
after meeting
（1）Note any suggestions for improvement from The General Evaluator.
（2）Ask the third speech evaluator to evaluate your performance in this role – decide which Competent Leader project you want this to count towards. In return, please take the time to provide the third speech evaluator with a Competent Leaderevaluation. If they do not have their manual with them, you will find anevaluation form next to your name badge.
【话术范例参考】English Script
Evaluating Table Topics
What's CRC
Use the CRC for all your speakers
You may find it a challenge toapply the CRC to Table Topics, but it is a key approach to use.
The main issue in evaluatingTable Topics is time management.
Normally in a 15 minute TableTopics session, you will have about 6-8 speakers to evaluate in 5 minutes.
So you will have an average of about 30-45 seconds for each speaker.
There are two ways to go about this
Treat each speaker individually, but briefly. You can give varying amounts of time to individual speakers, using your judgement to give more time to a speaker who needs more advice, and less to others. Watch out for a common fault– too much time for the first three speakers – then you can’t give proper feedback to the remaining speakers.
Concentrate on a particular skill and apply it to each speaker. This allows you to identify in detail the key elements of a particular skill and make your analysis with varying times for each speaker. If you use this method, you can also give an individual evaluation to a particular speaker if you think it important.
Evaluate in different aspects
Examples of particular skills relevant to Table Topics Evaluation
Structure. Did the speaker have a clear beginning, middle and end – that is introduction, body, conclusion?
Eye contact. Did the speaker address all the members? This is very relevant when speaking from the seatedposition, rather than out at centre front.
Taking up the speaking position The speaker should give themselves plenty of space by moving their chair well back, or moving behind the chair. If the speaker stands behind the chair, it is important not to grip the chair, because it restricts hand and arm movements (and looks nervous).
Besides these particular skills highly relevant to Table Topics, all the other important speaking skills are relevant. See the help file on Evaluation.
A final bit of advice – use a brief CRC –Commendation, Recommendations and final Commendation – for all speakers. You may find this difficult to handle at first, but it is an important structure for the benefit of the speakers you are evaluating.
