Toastmasters: Robert's Rules of Order Workshop
- Principles of Parliamentary Procedure
- Majority
- Minority
- Individual Members
- Absent Members
- How it helps the membership to…
- express the will of the group via the individual members
- maintain order during its members' exchanges
- Cast of characters
- Chair
- Parliamentarian
- Voting Member
- Sample Meeting flows
- Main motion → second → vote
- Main motion → second → debate → vote
- Main motion → second → motion to amend → second → vote → vote
- Robert's Rules as a game
- Each member gets a card with three specific main motions that the bearer should try to accomplish
- e.g. “change our club to a weekly meeting club”
- Each motion has an exact formulation and a number of points that the bearer shall obtain for getting the motion passed
- Perhaps provide alternative forms that would accrue fewer points, e.g. “change the frequency of club meetings”
- Some of the motions on a player's card will conflict with other players' motions.
- Some motions will be more specific than others
- At least a few motions will be only important to only one, or to very few members, to provide the group the opportunity to override a motion that is unpopular.
- There ought to also be motions of privilege
- Also a motion to limit debate might be of interest
- Motion to set the time to adjourn or to take a recess (if we do this before the break)