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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:14 am    Post subject: Re: Sergeants at Arms MIA Reply with quote
Joy wrote:
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Yes, it is quite amazing that there are so many "right" ways to do it.
Incidentally, at my first club, for the last few years before it folded,
we had the speeches and evaluations in the first half of the meeting, and
Table Topics in the second half. The idea of that was so that the TTM could
base questions on the speeches. However, that was seldom done.

John wrote:
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Certainly forces people to develop their listening skills.

The closest I have seen to this is clubs that have a
Quizmaster. That is a person who listens to meeting, jots
down questions about things people said or did during the
meeting, and then asks members for answers near the end.

Joy wrote:
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My home club has that. We call it Radarperson. We got the idea from an
Aussie visitor. Many Australian clubs have this role, under various names.
The only one I can remember is Critical Listener. I like the idea because
we are supposed to be learning how to communicate, and listening is an
essential skill for a good communicator.

I could not agree more with Joy. Listening is an essential aspect of
communication.
We have this role in my club as well (in BC, Canada), but we call it
the Harkmaster.

Our club handles it pretty much as John has described for the
Quizmaster. The Harkmaster has 2 minutes (Green @ 1:00, Yellow @ 1:30,
Red @ 2:00, Bell @ 2:30) to ask questions. Everything said in the
meeting is "fair game", including speeches, introductions,
evaluations, table topics, grammarian. It is the last thing in our
meeting before the general evaluator.

It is one of the more popular aspects of our meetings. It is so
popular, in fact, that one of our members runs a "Christmas Harkmaster
Quiz" (at our December party) and "Harkmaster of the Year Quiz" (at
our June party) every year (for about 6 years in a row, I think).
These quizzes are often one of the only things on the agenda at these
meetings (aside from food and beverages), and are always lots of fun.
Club members send in the questions to our "Games Master". The
questions are usually based on some aspect of something that has been
said over the past six months. There might be 22 mystery questions
like "I gave a speech on Rubik's Cube. Who am I?", and the game
involves matching the statement to the correct member. (Other
variations are used too...) It is very popular!

Andrew
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