[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Committed to deep change? In inches or leaps?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] You and I have been created to change. We have been endowed with the capacity to change. Change is crucial to being fully alive, whether our commitment to change is in inches or leaps. At LDG, we are committed to nurturing […]
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”In two short months a young lad by the name of Josiah will be 7 years old.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This picture (one of my all time favorites) was taken when he was one day old. I have it where I look at it almost every day. Reflect back to a newborn.
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”The best of intentional mentoring can have an honest element of risk:” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Mentoring, abused, can be manipulative. Unfortunately, some mentors set themselves up as the “one who knows all, sees all, predicts all.” While mentors may have more experience and knowledge about aspects of life, the best of mentors
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”The phone call lasted 5 minutes…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The time, the issue, was focused. He talked. I listened. The issue was strategic. He talked. I asked two questions. He went into his day. Just before bedtime that day, checking my messages, there was a several paragraph text from him being thankful
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Feel Free to ASK!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Seeking to be a better mentor? Just ASK! This tiny acrostic represents three tips for improving inquiry skills. A – Avoid Easy Answers Don’t ask yes or no questions. That’s one of the first tips of advice a newbie hears about improving question-asking skills.
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What if we had Family and Marriage doctors? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Well we do, I suppose. There are family and marriage counselors in every phone book in every city in America, I am sure. (Does anyone have a phone book anymore?) We all know what an annual physical exam is like.
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”In what mentoring environments does the whole-life model work best? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It’s been several years now since I gave a mentoring workshop in Guatemala for a major NGO/non-profit. This outstanding group provides care for children in almost 40 countries who are caught in significant poverty. They had gathered some
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Have you ever had an annual social exam? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I had my annual physical exam last week. It went well, for one entering his seventh decade, due in part to my mentor’s challenge this year to pay closer attention to the physical dimension of my life. As I sat
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What is a Post-Millennial? Is it time for a new generation already?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The Millennial Generation has dominated writing and research, water cooler discussion and hand-wringing for a decade and a half of this millennium. They are the largest generation since the Baby Boomers, and have lived through the most
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What is your Leadership Quotient? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] What, exactly, is a quotient? The dictionary definition is: the degree to which a specific quality or characteristic exists. Most of are familiar with the IQ—Intelligence Quotient. Later researchers developed various measures of EQ—Emotional Quotient, or more commonly, Emotional Intelligence. Recently, this trend has
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”When you mentor, are you a teacher or a “teller”? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One of the 8 Dimensions in the Circle of Life we’ve labeled Creative, Innovative, Designful, Playful. It may be one of the most forgotten, and yet, the most important of the dimensions of LDG’s mentoring model. Dare I
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What is it about fiery crashes that captivates us? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Video of the 9/11 aircraft attacks on the twin towers attracted over 30 million viewers to YouTube. A recent aircraft accident in San Francisco has attracted 4.8 million viewers. Even the non-fiery landing of US Air Flight 1539 into
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”There is a common use of good words to define our use of time for we humans.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] They sound good. Reasonable. Important. However, I suspect these words need to be thought through in a better order than how most of us have used them in the past. No one
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_text animation=”none”] Photo courtesy of Victor Bezrukov [/blox_text][blox_heading title=”If you believe life-long mentoring to be a valuable quest, how in the world do you mentor elderly people? Is that even possible? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This is an excellent question and one we hear often when talking about life-long mentoring. “Elder mentoring” doesn’t
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”When is your life half done?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] What if you do live from where you are into your 80’s or 90’s? Life, in past years, past generations, has often been defined in halves. The thought is there is a first half of life. Then somewhere down your road you enter
[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”So, you’ve decided to mentor people in their first 3rd of life? Welcome to the most exciting time to influence another human being’s life trajectory. Just think about it…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Even though Athletes make millions of dollars each year, it doesn’t take long for Super Bowl winners to fade into
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”If you were to be asked right now (which you are being asked…), “How are you doing physically?” What would your several answers be?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] When we consider the physical dimension of our lives we tend to compare ourselves with the fit, youthful bodies we see in ads and others.
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Does “Mentoring the Social Dimension” mean I have to learn to use Twitter?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] If it does, I would be a poor mentor indeed. Perhaps some mentors conflate “social” and “social media” but at Leadership Design Group, we see “Mentoring the Social Dimension” in a very different light. 4
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Four capacities fuel a person to be fully alive!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Whether the person is an old friend, a new mentoree, or even a total stranger I might meet on a plane ride, one of my favorite “mentoring creativity” questions to ask is, “May I ask you a question? In what
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”“I mentor people, but finances are just too sensitive and personal.”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Have you ever heard that from a fellow mentor? Or from yourself? Money mentoring is, indeed, sensitive and personal. At LDG, we believe it essential to developing a whole person. We see our mentoring as lacking if we
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