Toastmasters International
Mentoring
Toastmasters benefit by being mentors.
Mentoring helps develop interpersonal communication and leadership skills. Teaching helps us refresh
and refine what we know. Sharing knowledge promotes our own confidence, feeling of contribution, and well being.
Toastmasters International recognizes the importance of mentoring in Leadership education credit at multiple levels. We will learn more that we expect. Perhaps even gain some wisdom.
Tips to Mentors
Access the link below to download the manual of Toastmasters Mentoring Guidebook to enhance your understanding about mentoring, its benefits and responsibilities of mentors.
Duties of A Mentor
- Orientate the new member to the club patterns and pathways.
- Share thoughts, ideas, or questions.
- Discuss concerns and obstacles.
Benefits of Mentoring Program
Mentors provide members with help and practical advice, such as tips on preparing speeches and on club roles and responsibilities. They encourage protégés to grow as leaders and offer them reassurance if they hit a rough patch.
What would a Toastmaster Map to Mentoring look like?
Toastmaster Mentors
Toastmaster Mentors - guides along a part of our journey.
Being a mentor for newer members in a Toastmasters club is one of the organization’s most-challenging, least-defined and often-neglected duties. Yet when done right, it can be one of the most rewarding, fulfilling and beneficial experiences in developing our communication and leadership skills.
- Why be a mentor?
The final step in developing our skills in Toastmasters is learning how to help others become competent communicators and leaders. Being a mentor may seem like it is all for the mentee, but the real benefit comes from knowing we can help someone better their life.
- Apply Toastmasters skills as you mentor others.
As a mentor, observe and listen to your mentee. Speech evaluation develops the ability to give concise and constructive feedback and to inspire a person to continue to improve and achieve. In mentoring, it is more important to find and reinforce what the person is doing right than to find what they are doing wrong. Our actions should inspire them to keep going forward.
- Toastmasters is a process.
Toastmasters – like many of life’s learning experiences – is a process. No one gets 100 percent 100 percent of the time. So as a mentor, your job is to help your assigned person continue to make gradual changes and avoid becoming discouraged.
- Helping them identify and achieve goals.
Help the person to identify and achieve his or her own goals. Be careful not to insert your own agenda, but instead encourage the person to create realistic objectives. Empower the person to think and act.
- Keep the big picture of Toastmasters in mind.
We all have a bad speech, lose a contest, or receive a negative speech evaluation. These can be upsetting, invalidating and discouraging. Help the person you mentor to keep the big picture of Toastmasters in focus. Toastmasters is a learning process, for everyone – including speakers, judges and speech evaluators. There is always something to learn from the experience. No matter how tough it may seem, the program prepares us to handle life outside of Toastmasters.
- Toastmasters works if it is fun and friendly.
Keep it fun and friendly for the person you mentor. Watch their body language. Be alert for any negative issues they might experience, and help the person tackle them.
- It is okay to not know an answer.
Keep it fun and friendly for the person you mentor. Watch their body languaYou don’t have to have an answer for every question. Be honest, caring, interested and willing to make a mistake.ge. Be alert for any negative issues they might experience, and help the person tackle them.
The ultimate benefit of Toastmasters membership is becoming someone who can help someone else become a competent leader and communicator.
Dialogue is central to the mentor’s role.
The inner dialogue is also central.
