Today’s theme is inspired by Toastmasters training session I attended on Saturday. I hope this topic can be of use to youth ministries, family councils, family devotionals and family home evenings.

I was recently asked to serve in the position of VP of Education for the Toastmasters club called mainstreamers located in Northern Provo. Since that time, I hadn’t been changing my behavior to fulfill my responsibilities. I have to admit I didn’t know what my responsibilities were. Sense attending the training of Toastmasters on Saturday, I have a much stronger idea of my responsibilities and duties. And feel I can move forward into feeling my responsibilities much more successfully.

Today’s topic is an invitation for those in leadership to let their subordinates know what their responsibilities are. Training is so important to let people know the resources and responsibilities their title or responsibility represents. Now that I know what is required of me. I’m in a better position to the feel my educational roles in Toastmasters. My lack of knowledge contributed to me not providing a positive contribution to the organization. A similar restriction might be occurring to other people’s responsibilities because they don’t know what they need to do.

Those in leadership positions must train your subordinates, particularly if they have responsibilities. They need to be perform, and if they have to lead others. As a result, their productivity as well is that of the entire organization will improve.

I remember listening to some educational courses on leadership at the last place I worked. The course mentioned that one good way to train people in responsibilities is to give them small tasks in the beginning. This teaches them the skills and knowledge you want them to obtain. As they gain experience and knowledge you then able to assign them a bigger task. After that, they get a bigger task and a bigger task. That way they begin to evolve and expand their capabilities as you give them more opportunity to use their skills.

Another thing I remember on leadership training is that people need to have signposts that monitor their success. In the case of Toastmasters, I will be responsible for documenting people doing speeches and preforming different leadership tasks within the organization. A symbol of my success will be shown by how well I feel out their evaluations in the workbooks. This will also provide multiple positive effects.

1. It shows their evolution as they grow and learn to be a speaker and leader.
2. The organization has task performed by an active membership and
3. The member is motivated to continue their progress to fulfill future positions of leadership.

When mentoring someone, I think someone is more teachable, are they just start out rather than when they’ve had a lot of responsibilities for the long-term. So if you want to influence someone on their techniques or relationship abilities with their peers or subordinates that might be achieved more successfully when they are just starting out. When you do give suggestions tell them what they’re doing right, as well as areas that we need to improve.

These are just a few ideas about mentoring and about informing people of the responsibilities. Since the training on Saturday, I feel much more comfortable about what is required of me in my position.

If you have some ideas on delegation or what you think is important when training a subordinate who has lesser leadership position, please feel free to share your ideas in the comment section this blog. Thank you.