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Vintage photographs of families and historical scenes are layered over a textured background with keys and a framed picture, all under the "Toastmaster" magazine title.
Vintage photographs of families and historical scenes are layered over a textured background with keys and a framed picture, all under the "Toastmaster" magazine title.
August 2026 View PDF

A NEW ROLE


Paying attention to your setting, appearance, and delivery should help improve the effectiveness of your online meetings. In addition to coaching one another on how to give a strong online speech, my club has implemented a new role to improve our online meetings—“meeting operator.”

This role is similar to a stage manager (someone who is responsible for technical arrangements), and they are in charge of shifting the “focus screen” from one speaker to another and muting non-speaking participants when disruptive noise arises. We also find the timer role works better by sharing screens of different colors than showing color cards to the camera.

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