What’s a Demo Meeting?

By Nikki Nanos

You may have joined your club and never thought about the fact that it all started with a Demo Meeting. A Demo Meeting is just that—a demonstration of a meeting to a group that sees the value in Toastmasters. It’s just an abbreviated meeting: we need a Toastmaster, a General Evaluator, Duty Holders, Table Topics Master, a Speaker, and an Evaluator.

Here are just a few of the benefits:

• You get to meet new potential Toastmasters by helping with a demo meeting.
• You get to meet and work with fellow Toastmasters you may never had a chance to work with before.
• Heck, you might even meet that special person in your life. (I haven’t given up hope on that yet.)
• You can give a speech in front of a new audience.
• You will most likely be evaluated by someone other than one of your own club members.
• You can get credit in your CC or CL Manual… just don’t forget to bring it with you.
• You’ll become the next District 50 Toastmasters' Facebook sensation.
• You will have fun.
• And it is a great learning and growing experience.

If you can spare an hour in your day and volunteer yourself to help out with a Demo Meeting; you won’t regret it. Check the District 50 FaceBook page, there are always postings of Demo Meetings coming up, and we have roles to fill. Come join us, and join in the fun!