What do you do if a speaker exceeds the limit of a speech, which could be 7 minutes? Maybe the timer should remind all speakers jokingly that he will stop them at 7 minutes and 30 seconds regardless. If three speakers are on the programme and one goes over time the other two are denied the opportunity to win a ribbon. I gave my best ever speech and didn't get a ribbon because a speaker went over time.
If a speaker goes over time denying the other the chance to get a ribbon, one of the committee members should have a speech ready to make sure there's a ribbon awarded. It's totally unfair that one speaker go over time and somebody else suffers a loss.
Once in an area contest we were over time and so the Toastmaster of the evening cut out my role in the programme.
You can do it nicely and quietly by passing a note or you can do it loudly and jokingly (send on somebody dressed as a clown) but you must stop the speaker.
I've been at a public function in front of hundreds where the microphone and lights went out to stop a speaker. Supposedly accidentally.
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