Left: Jack (new member), Right: Kwee Choo (Area Z2 Governor)
I don’t know whether you all still remember him. His name is Jack! I have mentioned about him in my first article on “Influencing Non-Toastmasters” to join a Toastmasters Club.
Finally, on 19th February, Jack decided to join The Frontier Toastmasters Club. He is the only one among my friends whom I have brought to Toastmasters Club, joined as a member. I was truly glad for his trust on me and his hunger for self-development.
Throughout this process, I have discovered that recruiting a member is not an easy task. It takes time and courage. For my case, I have brought in more than 10 friends to visit my club. Eventually, only one signed up as a member.
Here, I would like to share with you how to I successfully recruited Jack as my club member.
1) Identify the needs of the individual
Jack is working as a Sales Engineer and I shared with him the importance of having good communication skills as a sales person.
2) Follow-up
Human has to be reminded. Whenever approaching my club chapter meeting, I would send Jack a SMS to remind him to visit my club. Sometimes he was not free, however when he was free, he would make his effort to come by.
3) Close the deal
After the chapter meeting, I told everybody that Jack was our new member. I think before I made the announcement, Jack had interest to join the club. However, I wanted to stimulate his urgency and I used the method “assume-closing” to close his deal as my club member.
4) Mentorship
This part will be in charge by his mentor. As for my role, I will think of ways to groom him as the next term committee. I am thinking of giving him a challenge to be the Vice President of Education of the club. I feel that this role is the best way to practise socializing and networking skills. As a sales person, he needs to master these skills.
My next target is my roommate. He has rejected me for so many times and I am still thinking of ways to invite him to attend my club meeting…
Tags: influence, join Toastmasters, non-toastmaster
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March 26th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Hello
I’m a junior college student in Singapore. I would like to ask for your help.
However I cannot contact you personally so I left the comment on this site.
I’m doing Project Work and the topic for this year is “Journey”. I have decided to do researches on people who have a problem with public speaking skills at first(eg. lack of confidence) but later,after going through a lot of practices(the”journey”), have overcome the problems and now possess excellent communication skills which are essential in today’s workforce.
Thus I would like to ask you if I can contact you personally so that you can introduce me to a person or a group of people who have gone through these processes(or even yourself) to share the experiences with me.
You can contact me at the above email.
Thank you very much
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