TIMER
Prerequisite: None.
Time: One minute.
Preparation:
Before the meeting take the timing device to your seat or get
a set of three cards or papers representing the green, amber, and
red lights. Check with the speakers and verify their speech
time. The Communication And Leadership Program
prescribes the following times:
| The Icebreaker | four to six minutes |
| Project Speeches 2 - 9 | five to seven minutes |
| Project Speech 10 | eight to ten minutes |
When called to explain your duty, stand and say,
“Mr./Madam Toastmaster, Fellow Toastmasters, and Welcome
Guests, I will be timing all of the speaking events of this
meeting. Table Topics speakers have from one to two
minutes; Evaluators from two to three minutes; prepared speakers
are assigned times designated by the manual or by their own
request, usually five to seven minutes.” When the
speaker’s time has reached its minimum requirement you will
note that our timing signal will be green to notify the speaker
that he/she has reached the minimum speech time. After
thirty seconds or one minute it will be yellow to notify there is
only a short time remaining for the speech. The timing
signal will be red to notify the speaker that he/she should stop
speaking and be seated within thirty seconds.
| Event | Green | Yellow | Red |
| Table Topics | 1:00 | 1:30 | 2:00 |
| Evaluations | 2:00 | 2:30 | 3:00 |
| Ice Breaker | 4:00 | 5:00 | 6:00 |
| Project Speeches 2 - 9 | 5:00 | 6:00 | 7:00 |
| Project Speech 10 | 8:00 | 9:00 | 10:00 |
Note: The Timer should not report the exact time of each participant unless specifically requested. The Timer will simply state, “All speakers were on time except XXXXXXX who spoke XXXX over.” Start the timing device at the speaker’s first utterance. Stop at the last.
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