Mentoring Skills

Mentors Need Mentors

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Imagine my surprise…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …when, beginning grad school in 1973 here in Denver, Colorado, I learned that one of my main intentional mentors at the time also had mentors. That impressed me. As Leadership Design Group’s whole-person mentoring model began to be formed during those three important years, it was …

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Looking Ahead

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”31-0 At Halftime…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …How would you react? I suppose it would depend on whether your team was the one with 31 or the one with zero, wouldn’t it? In truth, how you react would depend on whether you are looking back—at the first half—or looking ahead at the half …

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Mentoring Resolutions for 2016

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”There is a very sorry olde adage:” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …New Year’s resolutions are made to be broken. The sad inference is “who can keep them with the busy lives we lead?” However… …may I suggest that we throw that adage as far as the east is from the west? And, may …

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Mentoring When Crisis Hits

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The person sharing their story …” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …with a hollow look in their eyes, is clearly struggling to understand what has happened. Debris litters the field of their life. Like an F5 tornado, dropping out of the sky without warning, in a moment, a fraction of time on life’s clock, life …

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Limits in Mentoring

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Limits…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Too often in our world-engaging cultures, limits are viewed as an unfavored topic. Limits are often considered as a negative instead of a necessary positive. Seriously, that is a false presumption. For instance in the world of music of any type, limits, pauses, rests between notes, are crucial …

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Questions In Mentoring

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Why are you reading our blog?…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Wait! Don’t leave us yet. Odds are you want to, given the question we asked at the head of this post. We asked the wrong question and asked it in the wrong way. Ours was an intentional error, designed to capture a reader’s …

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Learning to Nurture

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”People on the grow!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] That’s what effective mentoring is all about. Learning to nurture well requires helping mentorees explore and discover who they were meant to be, rather than trying to mold people into who we want them to be. This, of course, requires the careful listening and question-asking …

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Learning to Listen

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Does your listening build relationships?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] One of my favorite definitions of mentoring was coined by Dr. John C. Crosby, founder and executive director of the Uncommon Individual Foundation, an organization dedicated to the field of mentoring. Mentoring is a brain to pick,           an ear …

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Mentoring and Being Mentored

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Follow me as I follow Christ’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Last week, I was sitting with a great man of faith who lives outside of Washington D.C. In recent months, he’s become a new mentor in my life. I found that being mentored in his way includes answering compelling questions about faith, life …

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Qualifications of a Mentor: Four Crucial Skills for the Best of Mentors

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I could never mentor. I’m not qualified.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Have you ever heard that? Have you said it yourself? Here is a simple truth: every one of us has within us the qualifications of a mentor. They are simple; anyone can mentor. But they take time to master. Everyone can hit …

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How to Remain a Person of Influence in Your Later Years

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”“Younger people just don’t want to listen anymore.”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] That lament was voiced to me by a relatively successful retired businessman several weeks ago. “They are all just off in their own worlds doing their own thing. How come you seem to have so many younger folk talking with you?” …

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Deep Change in Emerging Adults

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”A new phenomenon is occurring in America culture. ” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We’ve compartmentalized our teenagers to be “youth,” and now we’ve created a new space where students from 21-30 are now called Emerging Adults. Some colleagues use the phrase Extended Adolescence, as they try to understand why so many 21-25 year olds …

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Mentoring At Its Best Is Always Intentional

[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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Want to be a Better Mentor

Want to Be a Better Mentor?

[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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The best mentors are teachers

The Best of Mentors Are Also Teachers…

[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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3 Direction for the Best of Mentoring

Three Directions For The Best of Mentoring…

[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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