When the student is ready, the teachers appear !!
Hey,
I have entered in to my first Toastmasters meeting, my corporate club Thomson Reuters TM club in Bangalore. Then president TM Murali welcomed me with warm smile and explained all the meeting procedures. During the meeting, I have noticed super energetic speakers. Even though I become the best table topic speaker. you know the trick. I become the member of the club. I thought I would take Murali's help to prepared speech, I found only Murali as a Patient and a elder brother feel. Thankfully, Murali got assigned my Mentor.
He understood my stregth and weakness, he used discuss only my strengths. He used correct my speeches and after the speech, I used to feel terrible. But he used to wake up to me and keep talking about the areas where I have excelled. Theat again, find a motivation for me to come back and deliver the next speech.
After my 6th speech, he understood that I become comfortable with Murali and when I feel a brotherly relationship, I would take it for granted. Murali said, from next speech, you get mentoring from Dhanuja. Dhanuja was aspiring to be a district champion. She was ambitious, energetic, charismatic person. I could only match the ambition part. Else, she was not my type.
I never expected, a patient listener in Dhanuja. But she was committed to undersatnd my toastmasters goal, she started pushing me and challenging to take up my Toastmaster journey. First challenge was to push me to talk in front of different audience, I have started delivering speeches outside my club. I have never to part in content, my Mentor wanted to take part in a Tale tall contest conducted by a Bangalore clubs. I never won any first place in life. I never knew that even I can be a winner. We practised after night shift, that was like 12 o clock mid night. When I won the contest, I saw my mentor was more happy that me.
Our Mentoring, moved beyond toastmasters and started talking about our career, when She wanted to grow, I wanted to grow at my carrer and my wallet size. Set up a goal for this and worked. With in one year, I left my company and joined a business with my dream job. My mentor also pregressed in her carrer and Toastmasters. She won district evaluation and got a promotion to USA.
For me Mentoring in Toastmasters always starts with Murali and Dhanuja. They have played a big role as my Mentors to my Toastmaster journey from a person who cant stand up and talk to who can manage a group of audience. This project provide me a guidelines of Mentoring Mentee relationship. It tells that, Mentor should be experience and Knowledgabke, Positive and supportive, Respectful and caring and Committed and depedable for your growth.
I am grateful that, my mentors all were the synonymous to all traits TMs pathways have prescribed. From there onwards, I have met many Toastmasters here in ATK, Mathew, Safeer, SreeKumar Sir, Narayanan Sir, Tharakan Sir all payimg a big role on my growth.
In TM, we dont have ant scarcity for Mentors. But are we clear that why are you here ? If you do, Get ready, I mean really be ready. The Mentor will appear for you !
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