Managing new volunteers... Mentoring

Doris had just updated us that 25 sec 4 graduates had given their names to volunteer for mentoring. This piece of news is highly invigorating in this season of assignments. Even if half of them eventually commited, 25 people's life could be touched because each of them will have a mentee. I'm proud because I had spoke to the sec 4s on the stage on their graduation day. (Probably my public speaking (/convincement) skills have improved? Hahahahah)

The challenge now is to present to them the mission of mentoring intimately and inspire them to be involved. I tried and experienced personally a few ways to relate to issues. Logically, affectively, infectively. I hoped the classification is fair. My definition of infectively is in the 'demonstrating by example' sense; it is passive as opposed to affectively, where a conscious effort was made to consider the audience' state of mind and appeal accordingly. Logically would of course be using the logic approach, explained simply by 'if there's good to be done; why should you not be involved?'

Thinking back now, I'd used all 3 approaches in all works i'd done..
In YEP vietnam, I would classify my approach as more infectvely (though I prob failed to infect very much); in Kidsread, the strategy was guided by logic, in the talk to the sec 4s recently, it was affective, cos i related myself to their graduation mood.

Being very Singaporean, very economist-ic, I would be inclined to propose employing the 3 approaches concurrently in any work, but... (can't name them off-hand now, time for dinner too.. Commentors any contribution?)... it really doesn't work that way, simply because any work comes from the heart, that feeling is the guiding lamp, the faith. Therefore as much as one might like to apply the systematic approaches of management, the spirit will seem to become lost and just feel something is not right. Take it from the heart.