Episode 18: Special Edition: Global Online Evaluation Contest

Ever found the Judging of Toastmasters contests somewhat mysterious? Ok, well if you've ever judged there's no mystery, but if you've been a contestant you can be left wondering about how you were scored, where you did well and where you could have scored better. Official Toastmasters contests only give placings to the first 3. There's no feedback or points for improvement. Thus, I have organised an unofficial online Global Evaluation Contest which was conducted and recorded last Sunday. I have an ex UK/Ireland Champion for Test speaker, current District Evaluation Contest entrants from Europe, Oceania, and Africa, and for judges, highly experienced WCPS finalists from Asia and North America. The judges have opened the lid to give both the contestants and podcast listeners feedback and valuable insights on the evaluations. This is perfect timing to help those about to compete in District Evaluation Competitions.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:12

Hi, my name is Brisbane Sullivan, a Toastmaster from Brisbane, Australia. Welcome to my Toastmasters World tour podcast. Please join me as I travel virtually around the world and chat to Toastmasters from different countries and all walks of life. Let's explore this episode of Toastmaster's World Tour, we're zooming around the world virtually from Ireland to Sweden to USA to Sri Lanka to Canada to New Zealand and to South Africa. Like Santa! Miraculously ubiquitous! I have a special edition of Toastmasters World Tour. In perfect timing for pending district competitions around the world, I have three Toastmasters evaluators from three different continents Europe, Oceania and Africa, all competing in the Toastmasters World Tour Global Evaluation Contest. We have Samut Kumblay from District 95 representing Europe. Nethmi Gala from District 112 representing Oceania. And Tanduefica Toshabalala from District 74 representing Africa. They are about to compete in their districts. The highest level the evaluation contest goes to in Toastmasters. The world class judges are from North America and Asia and have all competed at the highest level. Our judges are Harriet Tinker from Canada was a semi-finalist at the 2024 World Championship of Public Speaking. Ravi Udouela from Sri Lanka was a finalist at the 2024 World Championship of Public Speaking. And Louisa Montalvo from USA was the 2024 World Champion of Public Speaking. Anthony Garvey is the test speaker for this contest. He was the 2023 Toastmasters UK public speaking champion. It is his speech that will be evaluated. At the conclusion of official Toastmasters competitions, competitors only find their placings. They never get any feedback. For this online competition, the judges have agreed to give feedback to give both the competitors and this podcast's audience valuable insight. The hope is that it will benefit all those competing in Toastmasters evaluation contests and most immediately those about to compete in the upcoming district competitions globally. I hope you all find this extremely useful. To get the most out of it, I suggest using this as a practice run yourself. Pause the podcast after the test speech and give yourselves five minutes to write an evaluation. Then listen into the other evaluations and compare. You can also practice being the judge of the evaluators by pausing for a minute after each evaluation and writing down your judging score and then comparing your judging with the judges here. Normally there is just placings of order at the end of the contest, but to make it easier to follow and fresh in mind, we are going to have all the judges' feedback after each contestant. The five minutes pauses the evaluators had and the one minute the judges had have all been edited out for the sake of podcast continuity. Best of luck to all competing. Welcome everyone to the Toastmasters World Tour Global Evaluation Contest. I have a test speaker, a recording of my test speaker, and we're going to follow pretty much the process that's done in a normal evaluation contest where we hear the test speaker, which is a five to seven minute Toastmasters speech. And then there's three of you. We'll draw cards and we'll have an evaluation speaking order. The two that aren't evaluating will go in a breakout room where they can't hear the other person's evaluation. The evaluation will be the standard two to three minute speech. And we've got our timer, Rafik. We'll have a minute silence for the judges while they make their notes. And now we'll have Anthony Garvey's test speech recorded in the last episode and played back during the competition.

SPEAKER_06 5:03

Come to the edge.

SPEAKER_09 5:05

We might fall. Come to the edge. It's too high. Come to the edge. And they came and we pushed, and they flew. I was fifteen years of age when I first read those words by Christopher Lowe. I had asked my dad for advice on how to win the heart of the most beautiful girl in Ireland. Her name was Helen, and I was afraid to talk to her. My dad asked me to read the poem I have just recited for you. Later on that evening at our school disco, I spotted Helen across the crowded dance floor. Spurred on by the words, I began to edge nearer. Our eyes seemed to meet just as flash dance started to play. First when there's nothing but a slow growing dream that your fear seems to hide deep inside your mind. As I edged nearer, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, my best friend Fergus was also walking towards Helen. Then I realized she was looking at him, not at me. I stopped in my tracks as the two of them held hands and started to dance. Come to the edge, climb onto a ledge more like it. But looking back, I realized how important that experience was. At the bottom of the page, my dad had added the words, remember. Come to the edge. I reapplied for the test, took extra lessons, and on the day of the exam, greeted the examiner warmly with a firm Toastmaster-styled handshake. And just one short hour later, I had failed my driving test for the ninth time. It was the worst exam of the lot. I went the wrong way, ran the mini roundabout, jumped a red light, and worst of all, reversed into a small bush outside our local garden center. Come to the edge, mow down a hedge, more like it. But looking back, I realized how important that experience was. Thanks to the press clipping and the words of the poll, I left the exam center that day, not despondent, but determined. And six short months later, I passed my driving test on my ninth attempt. Two years later, to the very day in South Korea, Cha Sasu passed her driving test on her 960th attempt. I was 45 years of age and I was on my way up to Dublin to visit my dad in hospital. He had gone in for a minor operation, and I took with me the book of poetry he had given me as a young man. I wanted to tell him about the positive impact it had had on my life. One hour into the journey, I got a call from my sister and I pulled the car over to take it. She told me that my dad had had a heart attack. They had tried their best to revive him without success. As I sat helplessly in the car, I took the book of poetry by Christopher Logue and read Come to the Edge aloud. There was not a sound to be heard apart from the distant murmur of the car radio. When I had finished, I closed my eyes. Through the darkness on the car radio, I heard something I had not heard for over thirty years. That your fear seems too high. Deep inside your mind. Thirty years ago, my dad gave me a book. He taught me to live life to the full, to have a go, to try things out. If you have a dream. Come to the edge. And who knows? You too may.

SPEAKER_07 11:43

Without further ado, Samuel. When you're ready, you have two to three minutes evaluation.

SPEAKER_02 11:51

Come to the edge. It might fall. Come to the edge, it's too high. Come to the edge. Edge, be pushed, and then what an interesting statement and how a great way to start. I came to the edge too very recently. I joined Toastmasters only a couple of months ago, but then I was very scared to participate in the evaluation. My friend pushed me to the edge, and it was not scary. And I feel it was so wonderful to hear Anthony speak about things which I can relate so much to my personal life. He spoke about the fear and insecurity of what we have. A common problem that most of us in the world have, and it was so much nice, so amazing to relate to. He brings us the power of three, where he speaks about his three different uh timelines when he's 15, when he's 35, when he's forty-five. When he's 15, when he hears the words of Christopher Love for the first time, he walks up to the girl that he likes, the girl that he loves. The feeling of that excitement followed by the feeling of disappointment to see her choose her friend. But then the positivity that he brings in by saying that he was the best man in their wedding tells us how to look at everything in a positive way, although it doesn't go in our way. That tells us how to embrace the edge and how we must believe that we have to fly. Then he also brings him the element of humor by saying that his future wife failed his driving test for 900 times. I can relate that too. I have been trying to pass my driving test for the last one year and I haven't done so far. It was a great thing to relate to it as well. But then he moves on when he's 45, when he's driving his car. He gets a call only to hear the news that the person who gave him the words of wisdom is no more. But then it is also a fact to note that the same words of wisdom that his father tossed onto him was the one which took him out of across the degree. This is a very interesting and very prominent and very powerful speech that Anthony has given us. I am sure his body language, his usage of stage would have been fantastic, and I really miss watching him live instead of just listening to him. The only thing that I might have liked a little more is when he was talking about his father. Maybe his voice could have been a little low from his sorrow. Apart from that, I think it was just a wonderful speech with a great structure, giving us the power of three with three examples of how he started, how he embraced it, and how he made a part of his life the advice that his father was giving. And also reminding us by the end of the speech that come to the edge, do not fear, and you will fly. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 15:10

First of all, timer, was there any time disqualifications?

SPEAKER_01 15:16

I'm afraid it would be one. One speaker went up to three minutes and thirty-two speaker.

SPEAKER_07 15:24

That's hard, isn't it? It's a better lesson to learn here than it is in your actual district finals. So it's a it's a bitter pill to swallow. I've been there. I was also two seconds over in one of my contests. Didn't make that mistake again. So far, anyway, probably I probably will make a mistake again. But anyway, you'll still get the evaluation. So, Louisa, when you are ready, we'll have your judging breakdown and feedback for some.

SPEAKER_03 15:57

I'm going to preface my evaluations with the fact that I do not sugarcoat anything. I give my evaluations straight the way I see them. And I do this because I want the evaluator to become a better evaluator. That's my whole goal. Please don't take anything personal. Uh Samuk, uh, you started very at the very beginning and you use your own personal story. Oh, he talked about this, but I joined Toastmasters and I did this. And I that doesn't help the speaker in any way talking about something you did. So leave to me, that's not you just leave it out. Um, then you said something um uh yeah, in your evaluation. Anytime you talk about yourself, don't talk about it because it does the speaker no good. You did say power of three, but then you came back and said power of three. So you said that twice. You only needed to say that once. You said, I can't pass my driving test again. This does no good on the speaker being able to be a better speaker and give a better speech. So uh just summarize the speech. To me, all you did was take his speech, and instead of having five to seven minutes, you put it into three minutes. So all you did was to me say the speech again. I was waiting for you only had one recommendation. To me, it was too, it wasn't um, it wasn't an evaluation, it was a summary. That's my evaluation. I'm probably finishing before the green light even goes on. So now, because I don't want to disqualify get disqualified as an evaluator, I'm gonna keep talking until the green light goes on because I don't want to lose just because I didn't keep talking. Again, I can say this again. Don't use any of your examples out of your life. I felt it was a summarization, and you only gave one recommendation. You we have to keep in mind that we are giving evaluations so the speaker can get better at giving speeches.

SPEAKER_06 18:09

Ravi, when you're ready, let's hear your evaluation of Samook.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Right, Sumook, uh first evaluator. So I'll start off with uh some of the strengths that I saw you as an evaluator, Sumook. Um, first of all, the tone and technique. I think uh even the ballot says you've got to be empathetic, you've got to be friendly, you've got to have that warmth. I think you had that, Samook. So so well done. That's a good quality to have as an evaluator. Um, and in terms of providing strengths to the speaker, generally, when you say about a strength, you should cover the what and the why. I think you had both. You had three what's, three strengths, and also you told us why you feel them as strengths. For example, humor, you were able to quote uh a humorous line, and uh, even in the power of the three stories, you were able to quote those three stories. So you covered the what's and the whys in terms of strengths. So those are the two um positives that I saw in your evaluation today. Uh, a few points for improvement that you can consider, Sumook. Um, the first is as the first evaluator, as Louisa mentioned, you kind of repeated the speech. Um, so you repeated sometimes line to line, which is something that you need to avoid because you're evaluating the speech. Um, this is the speech and not the content per se. And um you mentioned something like body language may have been good. Now, if you don't see something for sure, I mean let's not uh comment on it because you're you're not sure whether the body language was good or not. So uh that is something that you could have avoided. And in terms of recommendations or the weaknesses, you gave just one. So, in a normal evaluation, I think we have ample time for five points altogether, but you had four. So try to um try to have at least five points so that you score more on the analytics part of it. And I think your summation was non-existent, so maybe you ran out of time. So that's something that you got to work on so that um you have enough time for a summation as well. So, yes, uh, you had a couple of strengths, your tone, your technique was good, you covered the what's and the whys in terms of the strengths. What you need to avoid is repetition of the speak uh speaker, and also try to avoid commenting on something that you didn't see and try to have a summation. All the best, Samuk.

SPEAKER_07 20:39

Okay, Harriet. So, when you're ready, can we have your judging and feedback for Samook Kumbhlay's evaluation?

SPEAKER_04 20:47

For the sake of uh not mispronouncing his name, I'm not gonna say it again. His speech was uh his presentation was um was well presented. Things that I really liked, his uh his voice was good and was very clear to understand what he was saying. So that's important when you're judging. What I noticed when he was presenting his speech, he talked a lot about the whole entire speech. Like he went on too deep and highlighted a lot of things about fear and security, talked about the power of three, and you get really detailed with what he was saying, which can be good. And then the second thing, he talked about humor, and then also uh the call, the phone call. So all these things were good. When you're doing an evaluation, areas of um the positive side, you don't want to spend too much time on them. You want to give two examples and focus on the areas of, like when you look at the the judging, the judge's uh guide, there's another recommendation is usually has up to 30 points. Now, if you're spending a lot of time telling us the Good things you are taking away from your recommendation. And there was only one recommendation that he gave, and it was very quick. He didn't really have an example on how the speaker can improve in the future. It was very quick. And then the other thing, when the speaker was done, when he was done, he did not do a summarization, a summation. And on the judge's guide, summation is 15 points. So literally get zero there because there's no summation. You don't want to leave things that are that's an easy one to do. Just say in summation, because sometimes some judges might not hear you. So you always want to say in summary or in summation, because it clearly says here on the judge's guide. So it's so important to say all those things. And the technique here is also 15 points. So the speaker was inspirational, motivational. So there you get really good points there. So the biggest one I would say recommendation and the analytical side there, the speaker lost some points there. Because I'd recommend don't tell us all the good things, you know. You spend probably maybe a minute and a half saying all the wonderful things that the speaker did. Great. Just have, I would recommend two things when you're doing uh um an evaluation, and then spend a little more time on the recommendation, giving us step by step on how you recommend how this speaker can improve and summation. But overall, good presentation, considering they couldn't see the speaker. But I also noticed that they were trying to say if you were staging, this is what I would expect to see. But you don't want to talk on things you can't see, just talk on what you can hear. So well done, though. Well done. Speaks very well and very clear. So that's speaker number one.

SPEAKER_06 23:52

So that's a minute.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

So I had the pleasure of evaluating Anthony's very entertaining storyteller type speech this evening. And I'm gonna evaluate this the speech through the lens of structure and engagement, because really we all we have to to listen to is Anthony's voice and how is he engaging us through the story that he's telling. So I'm gonna jump right into the structure part of this evaluation. The first thing I'd like to call out here is Anthony had a very compelling introduction and conclusion. Let's start off with that introduction, a literary try at a quote from a poem. Come to the edge, come to the edge, come to the edge. What a great way to hook the audience in. And what an impactful delivery he had. Great use of pitch and pause and pacing. And his conclusion had a clear call to action, wrapping up that central theme that he set up from the beginning. Come to the edge, take a chance, take a leap of faith. Now, one thing I would like to really commend, Anthony, on is running that central theme from start to finish throughout his entire speech. And he used a good amount of humor to do that as well, you know, come to the edge, more like jump off the ledge or jump into the hedge. A great way to keep the audience engaged, laughing, but still uh keyed in to that central theme that he is pushing throughout his story. Now, one thing I think that Anthony could look at to push that structure even further, a small tweak, really, is to perhaps define a little bit more that theme right at the start of the speech to set the audience up for the journey that he's going to take us on. Uh, he had that towards the end of his uh his speech. And I felt like it would have had more impact at the start. So, for example, start off with that great literary triad, that great uh quote from the poem, and then go into 30 years ago, my dad gave me this poem, and it saw me through all the lows in my life, all the way from when I was in high school at a dance, and then go into that wonderful scene that he used. The next thing I'd look at here is vocal variety, and that was almost a masterclass in how to use your voice to keep your audience engaged, especially effective use of pause to emphasize certain things, um, and great use of pitch, like I failed again. Things like that keep the audience hooked and engaged and invested in the story that's being told. Now, one thing that I would encourage Anthony to do is take it even further. Some of the scenarios that he set up could have really, you could really push that humor even further. So things like seeing his best friend out of the corner of his eye slowed down a little bit more. And what did I see out of the corner of my eye? My friend go into my crush. What's going on here? Just dramatize the scene a little bit more. And especially because we can't see him, engage the audience through the dramatic dramatization of his vocal variety. Now, overall, a beautiful story with a great message, great structure could just push uh defining the theme a little bit earlier on in the speech and a little bit more pushing on the vocal variety to dramatize the anecdotes and the scenes that he had, but overall, a fantastic and engaging story uh that with a great message at the end.

SPEAKER_05 27:48

Thank you so much, Nethmi. We'll now have a minute's silence for the judging.

SPEAKER_07 27:55

Louisa, when you're ready, we'll hear your evaluation of Nethmi's evaluation.

SPEAKER_03 28:03

I think a good evaluation is going to have the speaker walk away with, wow, that's really what I need to start doing. And Nethmi, you started out with, so I had the pleasure. First of all, you started with so, filler word. Then later on you said, so I'm going to, and then again you said, so I'm going to, instead of telling us what you're going to say, just say it. There's no need to preface it. I know a lot of professors. Okay, so today class, I'm going to lecture you on don't do that, just say what you're going to say, and that's it. You also did say, hey, you know what? You had a good hook, you had good use of pitch. You complimented the evaluator, which is good. That's what we're going to do. And it's called, you know, the ham sandwich. You tell them stuff that they did good, and then the recommendations, but then you come back and say, hey, overall, great job. That's basically what it is. So once you got going, you did say good hook, good use of your pitch, you had good closing, you said commendation on the use of coming to the edge. So that was good too. But again, you're almost just repeating what the speaker already said. Now, what I really liked about yours was when you said recommendations, I would have started it differently. And then you actually told us, hey, this is what I think would have worked better. So that's good because now the speaker's going, oh, maybe she's right. Maybe if I put it this way. And so that was good because you actually gave a good recommendation. Then you said um, you said you took the scenario, take the scenario further. And I think we also gave a recommendation on that. So I liked it, but I don't remember your summation. And I don't know if you came back and said, but hey, overall, da-da-da-da-da. So I don't have anything written on that, but that's what I've got. I think you had a weak beginning, but then you got better. And then, like I said, I don't have anything for summation, so that's my fault, but that's my evaluation of your evaluation.

SPEAKER_07 30:07

Ravi to uh evaluate Netmi.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Right. Second evaluator, Netmi. Um, Netmi, I love the energy you have as a speaker. Uh, you were very lively, you were very motivating, and even as an evaluator, uh, that's a great asset to have, right? Uh loved it. I also love the fact that um you covered the what, the why, and the how, especially when you were giving recommendations. You just didn't say, okay, this is an area where you could have improved your voice. You just set that line uh with better vocal variety. So you showed us the how, which is very, very important because it's easy to say this is an area of improvement, but for an evaluator, you go one step further and say this is how you could improve, which is really helpful for a speaker, and you did just that. Wonderful. Um, and I love the summation. Uh, you had I think you had a complete summation, uh, which is which kind of uh encapsulated everything that you have to say in an evaluation today. Wonderful. A few points for improvement, uh Netmi. Uh, in terms of structuring your evaluation, I felt a bit of a clutter. Uh, why I say that is you now generally you start with the strengths and you move to the areas of improvement. So, what you did was you said structure, and within structure, you had the positives, uh, the strengths and the areas of input. You went to voice, and within voice, again you had strengths and area of improvement. So, for me to follow it, there was a bit of a clutter, I would say. I think a better way to structure your evaluation is to finish off the strengths and then get to the areas of improvement so that for anyone in the audience, it's much easier to follow. Um, yeah, that's the only improvement point uh I had your in your in your evaluation with me. So great stuff. I love the energy, love the motivating tone that you had. Uh, love the fact that you covered the how as well in terms of providing recommendations. If you can um have clear structure to your flow of thoughts and flow of points, that'll be a area for improvement for you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 32:29

Now we're going to hear Harriet Tinker's judging and feedback of Nethmi Gala's evaluation.

SPEAKER_04 32:40

Excellent. Now the speaker here was great, set it off saying exactly what she was going to tell us about the evaluation, how she was gonna let us know how Anthony did, talked about the structure and engagement, said she said the introduction is very compelling and impactful. So, enough time to talk about the areas that were positive, and then went in to talk about the recommendation, which I really liked because he was able to say what recommendation the speaker could improve on, like define the theme at the beginning so we can have a flow. So that's a really good recommendation for the speaker, Andy Ru also make the speech more impactful. So she was giving us a recommendation, giving us what the impact would be, and an example of what that would look like. So that's something a speaker can take away and help the speaker improve the speech so it can be even better. And the other thing she gave it was about vocal variety and talked about when the Anthony saw his best friend dancing with you know the girl she wanted. I really liked how she said, you could have used humor so that us as listeners can visualize that, you know, like corner of your eye, look the volume up or low, so that we can have a feel. So that would have elicited in the emotions there. So I really like how she brought those two recommendations. And she would score really high because that's really good recommendation with examples, the impact, and what it looks like. And also what I really like is she did a summation of exactly what she told us and gave a little bit of a summary, saying this is what I'm recommending, and and this is what I this is what the good things I like. This is recommendation in summary. So that was good. So she would score high points in all the categories, and the technique was good. She was very sympathetic and sensitive as well as motivational. So well done. The speaker did a good evaluation.

SPEAKER_06 34:55

Okay, that's a minute up. Welcome back, the Andrew.

SPEAKER_07 35:06

When you're ready, take it away with your evaluation.

SPEAKER_08 35:15

Thank you very much, Anthony, for that wonderful speech. Come to the edge, we may fall. And my friend, I can tell you that you've come to the edge and you did not fall. Instead, you flew. Thank you for the tale you've told us about overcoming your fear and complacency anchored in that quote that you delivered. Uh through your speech, I saw great things that I think you should repeat to make you a perfect speaker. And I saw one or two things that I think, if improved, would make you an even better speaker. I'd like to start off by telling you some of the great things of that. The first one is using personal stories. Now, the world is a very big, small place. And when we tell stories, it anchors us to a place of time that allows us to live as you have lived to that story. It makes it personal, therefore, I listen to it. You did that in three parts. You told the story about your life of the discount and overcoming the fear to approach the potential of your life. You did it by overcoming the multiple failures uh of getting driver like that. You did it by talking about the passion of that. All of those were indications and examples of with fear could have helped them, and you overcame it. That was very good. The second thing that I think you did extremely well is closing the loop. There's a second thing about human beings that like completely task. What something starts and we are able to finish it up? You did it two weeks. The first one, you opened up by singing that song that I might have met is before my time, but it was a great song. And then you returned the song to the end in closing so that the golden circle is closed. That sounds beautiful to the human ear. Just top it up or add a recital of the poem again. That's completely the golden circle. What are some of the things that you could have done better? Well, there's two specific things I'll talk about. Uh the first one is on transition. Like a logical argument that start off and argued the point and then joint it to another point and join it to another to get to the end. You join your point on the transition. I was 15 years old. And then when you went to the next story, I was 15 years old. That is a transition. It's hard to uh it doesn't make much of sense as to old with the previous paragraph done. Instead, you might use a couple more words and say something along the lines that's why the next time we're now what is old face to face, and then that transition is able to link the next statement to the previous one, allowing the users to follow well. The last thing is the use of language. Flash dance, roundabouts, all unfamiliar to the modern generation, and international speakers try using different languages or words. All in all, your speech was wonderful, and I think you did very well. Uh, just be careful of international language, transition better, and I think you are on your path to being an international speaker. Thank you very much, Anthony.

SPEAKER_07 38:48

Okay, we'll have a minute's silence for the judges. Okay, the minute is up. Louisa now evaluating Thandetica when you are ready.

SPEAKER_03 39:06

Thank you so much. And Robbie, you're such a great, you're so much better evaluator than I am because you point out the good, and I'm just focusing on okay what I think needs to be improved to make the evaluator a better evaluator. Um sorry if I mispronounced your name. You had a great intro. I really liked it. I just put here a great intro, what it was, can't recall. Um, you also started off as a professor. I'd like to start off with, you don't need to say that. In fact, what I found with your evaluation was it was a little too wordy. If you only have two to three minutes to tell someone how to improve, you don't want to say things like, Well, I'd like to start off with, and I think for you, I think what one of the things you could do, you could have done better is you don't you need to you don't need to say all that. Again, I thought it was a little too wordy. Um, the one point that you did bring up that was really good, and I hadn't realized it until you pointed it out was you said the circle, you close the circle. You started with this and then you came back and you close the circle. So that was really good. I really like that. When you said I have recommendations, I don't know if it was just me. I have been up since seven in the morning, which was, I don't know, 16 hours ago, but I didn't get clear on your recommendations. It was a little too confusing for me. Now that might be my problem, not your problem. But it was good that you did give recommendations the clarity on it. I'm not really sure. And then I don't know if you came back and said, but overall, great job or whatever. And if you did, that was great. But again, what I felt was uh you were a little too wordy. Uh I like what you said, circle came back. Um, you don't have to say all the other stuff, and I wasn't clear on your recommendations. That's my evaluation. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 40:59

Ravi, when you are ready to give judges feedback for Thanguifica.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

Right. Thanka. I I hope I got your pronunciation right. I loved how you started off your evaluation. When you're at the edge, you could fall, but the speaker didn't fall today, you flew. I I thought that was a wonderful line to start with. Um you know, you talk about motivating the speaker, and you did just that. Um loved how you elaborate your points, uh Thanvetika. You just like the previous speaker, you follow that structure of the what, the why, and the how. Um you spoke about the strengths of personal stories, closing the loop, uh, transitions, language, and in all those points, uh, you covered those three elements of you know what was your point, why you felt that was bad, and in terms of recommendations, you covered the how part as well. Now, here's the um biggest area of improvement for you. Your closing was rushed. I think that's because, as the first evaluator mentioned, you were too wordy. Uh, you know, you it's good to have uh good elaborative language, but then again, it's a contest and you got to be mindful of the time. And your closing was way too rushed. I think you were able to just get in one recommendation, and that too was rushed, right? I I couldn't here get the last part of it. And uh the summation was almost non-existent because uh you had to wind up. So that's something to be wary of, you know, managing time. So it's good to be elaborative, but be mindful of the time. That's that's the only recommendation that I have for you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 42:46

So now we're going to have Harriet Tinker's judging and feedback for Tendwefica to Shabalala's evaluation.

SPEAKER_04 42:56

All right, thank you. I'm excited to give evaluation on the third speaker as well. Very good way to present, set it off with just saying the theme, saying he was unique, he was a good speaker. So, right off, it's separates him from everybody else because of how he set it off the speech. So he stands out there and then says, What I'm gonna say, I'm gonna talk about the areas that he did well, and then areas that he could he could recommend that he could consider. So he talked about personal stories because they're relatable and give examples, three examples on what he meant by relatable personal stories, because we can all relate to it. And the second thing was about sing along, said it was all kind of um at the beginning, he started off with singing and ended with singing. So that's what a good speaker does. Kind of like it's all like a fullfold of a presentation. And then talked about areas of improvement, which would be the transition. Give an example. For example, you said, you know, if you join it, you Started with the age, and then you give an example of what that would look like. So it's good for the speaker to know what the speaker is, what the evaluator is recommending. So that's a good example. And unfortunately, I could I have to admit, I did not really hear the second recommendation, but it he did hear, I did hear it in the summation, which was good because it was able to, which is also another trick too, when uh when you do a recommendation and you did you may not have been clear. So the summation brings it back and reminds the judges that okay, that's what he said, that makes sense, or she said. So overall, very good evaluation, which stands out because the beginning is unique, because you want to always be standing out because the judges are listening to so many other evaluators, you want to stand out, and he did that, gave examples, did the recommendation, and did a summation. So very well done. Good evaluation.

SPEAKER_07 45:06

So now to announce the results of the Toastmasters World Tour Global Evaluation Contest. There was one time disqualification. In second place, Samut Kumble from District 95 representing Europe. And the winner of the Toastmasters World Tour Global Evaluation Contest is Tendufika Toshablala from District 74 representing Africa. Congratulations! Best of luck to all in your upcoming district finals. This is how we grow and improve, both by encouraging comments for things we got right and points for improvement. We all learn and benefit from these evaluations, not just the person being evaluated. So any feedback in the comments is greatly appreciated. If you have a Toastmasters story you'd like to share or would like to be on the show, I'd love to hear from you. You can reach me at Toastmastersworld tour at gmail.com. Thanks for listening.