Marsh Winds Toast Masters Mentors

Mentoring

Mentoring can be an excellent way to improve your ToastMasters experience. The mentor serves as a role model, coach and confidante; offering knowledge, insight, perspective or wisdom useful to the person being mentored. Membership in Toastmasters offers many opportunities, but none so rich and rewarding as the chance to work with a mentor.

Mentoring allows ToastMasters to:

• Share their expertise
  
• Obtain fresh perspectives
  
• Build teamwork skills
  
• Expose themselves to new situations in which to apply their skills
  
• Earn credit toward your Competent Leader award (complete project 9 by mentoring a new OR an existing member)

Even experienced ToastMasters can benefit from having a mentor. You can develop a particular aspect of speaking – such as speech organization or humor. If another club member excels in your area of interest, this person could be your mentor and help you to further develop that special skill.

As Co-VPs of Education, Crissy Roeglin and Lee Handwerger have the pleasure of helping match Marsh Winds members with mentors who will help their ToastMasters development.

Check Mentor Information on Roster

Please take a moment to review your record on the Marsh Winds roster. There are two mentoring related fields at the bottom of each record:

• “Serve as Mentor?” -- If you are interested in acting as a mentor the “Serve as Mentor?” field should be “Y”
  
• “Mentoring:” -- Current mentor assignments are indicated in the “Mentoring:” field

Let us know if you have updates to either of these two fields.

If your “Serve as Mentor?” field is blank, we encourage you to consider being available as a mentor for another Marsh Winds member. You do not need to be a DTM or have years of ToastMasters experience to be a mentor. You just need to have a passion for the group and a desire to help others by sharing your experiences.

Mentor Requests

If you do not currently have a mentor and are interested in having one, please contact Crissy and Lee. We can discuss your interests and match you with someone who can help your development.

We look forward to hearing from you had helping everyone achieve their ToastMasters goals.