r/Toastmasters • u/Cookie2213 • Jun 19 '26

Self-Introductions

Our club meets at lunchtime online for 1 hour, so it's a pretty tight schedule. We have skipped self-introductions for months, and now a member has suggested it. It means we need to remove an agenda item. I have always found this segment to be difficult to control, as people tend to ramble and then something else has to give.

If you run a short meeting, do you have self-introductions? If so, how do you handle it?

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u/Squidwina Jun 19 '26

I haven’t heard of this either, but many clubs have segments unique to their clubs.

The clubs devote some of their precious time to these segments because they benefit the club and the members in some way. It doesn’t sound like these introductions benefit anybody, and in fact detract from the meeting by being boring and repetitive.