Engaging Your Livestock Mentor
Engaging Your Mentor
Aug 31, 2014
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- Engaging Your Livestock Mentor
- What is a Livestock Mentor?
- Volunteer/Project Leader who receives special training:
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- Species-specific subject matter
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- Youth and volunteer development subject matter
- Returns to home county and works cooperatively with County Extension Agent to provide support and leadership to the project
- Engaging Your Livestock Mentor
- Need
- Recruitment
- Training
- Implementation
- Use and Follow Up
- Need
- How many Livestock Projects do you have?
- What level of support do they need?
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- Project visit
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- Animal purchase
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- Feeding and Fitting
- What part of my 4-H program needs the most work?
- Recruitment
- What do you want a MENTOR to do?
- Who do you have that can do that?
- Who will you target?
- What are the Characteristics of a good MENTOR?
- Who would you choose?
- Training
- Starts at the State Level
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- Southern Classic: Sheep and Goat
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- Holiday Classic: Beef and Swine
- Should be elevated above the experience of the average volunteer
- Where does it end?
- Who is responsible?
- Implementation
- Back to What do you want them to do?
- What are they good at?
- This is your unpaid employee
- How do we treat employees?
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- Orientation, training, evaluation
- Make sure it is someone you can support
- Use and Follow Up
- Reporting
- Evaluating
- Recognition/Motivation
- EVR
- Recognition Continued
- Two Types of Motivation
- Extrinsic
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- Ribbons
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- Trophies
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- Money
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- Free time
- *Most commonly used, but not effective longterm!
- Intrinsic
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- Recognition
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- Achievement
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- Challenge
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- Development
- *Successful coaches emphasize intrinsic motivation!
- Engaging your livestock MENTOR
- Need
- Recruitment
- Training
- Implementation
- Use and Follow Up
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- M Market Livestock
- E Educating Youth
- N Nurturing Youth
- T Teamwork
- O Opportunities
- R Responsibility
- Volunteers Role as a Mentor
- Serve as a mentor, or coach, to youth
- Successful coaches:
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- Help youth develop new skills
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- Enjoy competing with others
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- Feel good about themselves
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- Know their subject matter
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- Are excellent motivators
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- Show empathy for youth
- A Successful Mentor
- Has a defined coaching philosophy
- Uses appropriate coaching styles
- Communicates effectively
- Gains credibility with youth
- Motivates youth
- Teaches effectively
- Command Coaching Style
- Coach makes all decisions
- Assumes he is knowledgeable in all aspects of the project
- Youth respond to the coachs decisions and commands
- Submissive Coaching Style
- Coach takes little responsibility in decision making
- Gives little guidance, instruction or direction to the youth
- Cooperative Coaching Style
- Decision making is shared between coach and youth
- Coach values input of youth
- Coach recognizes youth cannot gain responsibility unless they are involved in the decision-making process
- Coach is still the leader, providing guidance and instruction during the decision-making process
- Your Coaching Style
- Livestock Mentors should work toward a cooperative coaching style of coaching with youth and families
- Ensures:
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- youth are gaining responsibility
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- goals are being met
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- you are still actively involved in the project
- Communication
- Sending and receiving messages verbally and nonverbally
- Most are better at sending than receiving!
- Content: overall message, expressed verbally
- Emotion: expressed nonverbally, affecting the way an individual interprets the message
- 70% of communication takes place nonverbally!
- Gain credibility with youth
- Be an active listener
- Provide positive reinforcement
- Have realistic expectations
- Motivate the Youth
- Keep projects fun
- Make sure youth feel worthy and successful
- Success comes from setting realistic goals and working to achieve them
- Teaching Effectively
- Know subject matter
- Effective pass along information
- Provide hands-on learning experiences
- Establish creative ways of teaching
- Involves research, planning, implementation and evaluation
- Mentor Expectations
- Provide support to youth and families enrolled in project
- Provide positive, structured learning experiences for youth
- Serve as a mentor/coach
- Provide support and leadership for other project leaders
- Involve members as junior and teen leaders to assist younger members with project
- Encourage parent interest, involvement and support of 4-H activities
- Mentor Expectations
- Acquire advanced species and youth/volunteer development training by attending a 4-H Livestock Mentor Training
- Work cooperatively with CEA to provide service back to the project
- Complete a Livestock Mentor Certification Form
- Benefits of Serving as a 4-H Livestock Mentor
- Gain/enhance knowledge and skills
- Be a significant part of the educational and developmental process for youth
- Serve as a positive role model for youth
- Foster the development and growth of successful youth-adult partnerships
- See the impact the 4-H Program has in the county
- Experience personal growth
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