Author name: Wes Roberts

Founder/CCO/Master Mentor Leadership Design Group. Wes is uniquely designed to encourage, grow, prod, and challenge others. He is wildly creative and able to imagine better futures for others and himself. Since 1967 his leadership mentoring has helped shape the future of individuals and organizations to grow their dreams into reality. Wes exercises his unique personality to serve others as Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Leadership Design Group, Leadership Design Associates and Three3rds Media. Wes has been mentoring individuals and teams since 1967 from a variety of backgrounds and on every major continent. The unique mentoring model that has deepened, enriched, challenged and changed many lives—in every third of life, is a cornerstone for all that takes place within Leadership Design Group, Leadership Design Associates and Three3rds Media.

Leadership quotient by design

Leadership Quotient By Design

[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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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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Developing Leadres by Design

Developing Leaders By Design

[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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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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Elder Mentoring: Mentoring in the Third 3rd of Life

Elder Mentoring: Mentoring in the Third 3rd of Life

[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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Three Life-giving Thoughts about Mentoring in the Three3rds of Life: Especially The Second 3rd

Three Life-giving Thoughts about Mentoring in the Three3rds of Life: Especially The Second 3rd

[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

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5 choices to honor the physical you

5 Choices To Honor the Physical You

[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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Mentoring the Social Dimension: 4 Keys to Developing Leaders Socially

[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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Four capacities fuel a person to be fully alive!

Mentoring Creativity…and More

[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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Money Mentoring: Your Mentoree’s Wallet—or Purse—Matters | Leadership Design Group

Money Mentoring: Your Mentoree’s Wallet—or Purse—Matters

[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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Intellectual Dimension: 4 Commitments For A Healthy Intellect

Intellectual Dimension: 4 Commitments For A Healthy Intellect

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”“What in the world were you thinking?” Ever had that question asked of you? I have. Often.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] It may be a totally legit question.  It all depends on which word the emphasis is put.  How the question is spoken can make it an acceptable query for more information.  It can

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Emotions in Mentoring: Seven Truths

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Do you encourage emotions in your mentorees?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I mentor several men. Many of them are uncomfortable with or avoid the subject of emotions in mentoring as we begin to work through what it means to be a whole person in all 8 Dimensions of life. The best of mentors

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It’s Not Just A Job, It’s An Adventure!

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What is it that you productively do with most of your waking hours?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] What activities can you do effortlessly, where other people ask, “How you do that?” What, in your work world, comes so naturally that you would almost do it for free? Well……almost. If the work of your

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The Importance of the number 1 in the best of mentoring

The Number 1 in the Best of Mentoring

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”A few moments ago I was laughing at myself. Something others and I do often.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This time, taking some scheduled hours on a rain-swept Wednesday here in Colorado to do some important and overdue filing, I found some notes I’d made while on vacation earlier this summer. Those who

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5 interconnected categories from the best of mentoring

5 inter-connected categories from the best of mentoring

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Life takes place, happens, gives way to growth in Leadership Design Group’s Circle of Life Mentoring Model that brings a deep delight to being alive.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Five interconnected categories ultimately bring more life to an individual than they ever dreamed possible. Yes, that is a rather large statement. However, the

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What do you call the person you are mentoring

What Do You Call the Person You Are Mentoring?

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_text animation=”none”] Mentee? Protégé? Mentored? Mentoree? What shall I call this person I am mentoring? At Leadership Design Group, this is a frequent question. This even has been the subject of spirited internal debate. Here is a summary of the debate as we see it and how Leadership Design Group has crafted our own

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7 Necessary Facts about Whole-Life Mentoring

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_text animation=”none”] Integer. The word still elicits thoughts (most of them bad!) of university mathematics flooding into consciousness from somewhere deep in my repressed memories. Integers. Differential equations. Imaginary numbers. (Really? Imaginary?!). Integers and I weren’t really compatible.   Integrity. Now there is a word more comfortable for me. I served in the United

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4 Reasons for Deep-Change Through the Best of Mentoring

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Let’s face the hard truth. None of us has “arrived.”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In six decades of working on my life, I still have not become all I want to be, all I could be, all I need to be. That could be discomforting news. There is good news: I am working

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The Best of Mentoring Is Always Intentional…!

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”No argument.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Mentoring can happen in all kinds of places, opportunities, time frames. However, the best of mentoring begins with a creative intentionality that helps a person live into their unique design for their life. I’ve had some meaningful conversations where people have thanked me for mentoring them. That

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8 Signs a Person is Ready to be Mentored

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Have you ever been asked by someone to start a mentoring relationship and then you started to ponder, “Are they ready for this? How can I know if they will be committed?”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Paying it forward by walking alongside of someone who is not as far along life’s path can

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