Practice Mentoring In Your Club

• Determine your current mentoring skills
• Identify the steps in being a good mentor
• Practice mentoring skills in various roles

Your Toastmasters club offers the opportunity to develop and practice mentoring skills. The following roles involve mentoring:
Mentor for a new member. A mentor for a new member helps that member with the first three speech projects in the Competent Communication manual, with projects in the Competent Leadership manual, and to become familiar with the club, its operations and how to fill various meeting assignments.
Mentor for an existing member. A mentor for a more experienced member helps that person develop new skills or enhance existing ones. For example, a long-time club member may need assistance learning how to use humor in presentations.
Guidance committee member for someone who is working on a High Performance Leadership Program project. The High Performance Leadership program requires a member to serve as a leader for a project of his or her choice inside or outside of the Toastmasters environment. You can serve on the guidance committee for a member who is working on her project, providing feedback to the member as she works on the project.