An Evaluation is not a Review

A reminder that speech evaluations are not a review of the speech.  Too often this happens.  Often the humor from the speech is recollected and the evaluator gets some laughs.  This is not the point of an evaluation.

The two or three minutes allotted to each evaluation is too short and too potentially valuable to be wasted on a recounting of what we have just heard and seen.  Those valuable seconds must be used to point out to the speaker, in a kind and gentle manner, what he or she can work on to improve future speeches.