For use of New Members Orientation Session by VP Education

1. SU Toastmaster
“New Members Orientation”
Presenters:
President and Officers
November 23, 2009

2. Orientation Agenda
• President’s Introductory Remark
• Brief Explanation of Club Officers’ Roles
• New Members Orientation

3. President’s Introduction
• Notify members to stay a while for New
Members Orientation.
• Tell members what things will be covered
during the orientation.
 Roles of Club Officers
 Oral Survey for Mentoring
 Interview with New Members along with club officers
 Mentor-&-Mentee Talk

4. What the Officers do…
• President
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Sergeant at Arms
• Web Master
• Vice President Public Relations
• Vice President Membership
• Vice President Education

5. Oral Survey for Mentoring
• Explanation of Benefits through Mentoring
• Ask new members for having them assigned
by mentors
 If they want, ask them as well as existing
members to gather together to get started with
INTERVIEW.
 If they don’t, finish the orientation

6. Oral Survey for Mentoring
Step 1. Hearing of concerns from new members
• Ask what kinds of skills that they want to
improve.
 recovery from stage-fright / ease of tension
 vocal variety / body gesture
 speech organization / transition / strong opening-&-
concluding remark
 persuasion / strive-not-to-use-notes / projections of
conviction and sincerity
 get-to-the-point / elimination of jargons / word choice
/ speak plainly
 Appeal to the audience’s emotions

7. Oral Survey for Mentoring
Step 2. Stable Matching Process between Mentor-&-Mentee
• How to decide Mentor and Mentee:
 One way
 Mentor to be picked by a new member; the
new member becomes a mentee
 Another way
 Mentor to designate a new member as a
mentee
 Both parties should communicate to each other clearly about
the skills that they want to focus on.

8. Oral Survey for Mentoring
Step 3. Mentor-&-Mentee’s Talks to reach some agreements
• How to reach agreements:
 One way
 Offline meeting before / after regular meeting
 Purpose: “rehearsal before the meeting” or “repeating
mentee’s speech after the meeting to reinforce his
speech completion with evaluation made by evaluators
and members”
 Another way
 Online meeting before / after regular meeting
 Other ways ?
 Make sure that both parties exchange each other’s contact info.

9. Thank you for
coming!
Happy
Thanksgiving^^