Help speakers gain self-improvement by:

•        Being genuine (speak from your heart)
•        Recognizing their strengths
•        Creating a climate for motivating change
•        Recognizing and giving areas for improvement (positive change)
•        Suiting the evaluation to the level of that individual speaker 

REMEMBER: Rule #1: Judge the speech, not the person (avoid value judgments) 

Judging the delivery: 

• Earnestness
•  Appropriateness
•  Organization
• Conviction/passion
• Sincerity
• Body language
• Voice delivery/inflection
• Eye contact
•  Grammar/colorful word pictures/phrases 

Pitfalls to avoid:

•  Avoid reading word-for-word from the manual for the evaluation 
•  Avoid whitewashing (making it all sound too good)
•  Avoid lethal surgery (this is nurturing, remember)
•   Talking, talking, talking (stick to the agenda)
•   Providing nothing for the speaker to improve/build upon