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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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The Influence of Family in Mentoring

8 Dimensions of Life, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”“Tell me the best memory you have of your family?” I asked a group of University students.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “I remember when my parents got divorced. My Dad took off, and my Mom raised my brother and me. I’ll never forget the sacrifices she made to keep me in my private

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Emotions in Mentoring: Seven Truths

8 Dimensions of Life / By Wes Roberts

[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!

8 Dimensions of Life / By Wes Roberts

[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 Number 1 in the Best of Mentoring

Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[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 inter-connected categories from the best of mentoring

8 Dimensions of Life / By Wes Roberts

[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?

2 Comments / Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[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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3 Steps To Being A Transformer

First steps of Mentoring, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_text animation=”none”] Copyright material belongs to Dreamworks SKG, Paramount Pictures, Industrial Light & Magic, and Hasbro. [/blox_text][blox_heading title=”Unless you’ve been hiding under a dark media blackout for the last few years, you know our culture has been awakened to the old 80’s cartoon, The Transformers. ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Michael Bay and the team

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7 Necessary Facts about Whole-Life Mentoring

8 Dimensions of Life, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[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

First steps of Mentoring, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[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…!

Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[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

First steps of Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[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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5 Facts About Mentor Training You Need To Know

1 Comment / First steps of Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”I had an inspiring professor when I attended graduate school at Arizona State University.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] He encouraged me, challenged me, and taught me passion for our shared pursuit. I learned early on that if I wanted to check in with him, I wouldn’t find him in his office. He had

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An Inside Look at the Best Mentoring Sessions

Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Mentoring, of course, comes in many forms and fashions.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][/blox_column][/blox_row][blox_row columns=”1/1″][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_text animation=”none”] But at LDG, we Design Leaders through Intentional, Deep-Change, Whole-Life, Transformational mentoring. Intentionality is crucial to great mentoring sessions. The best mentoring is purpose-filled and inside every exceptional mentoring session is purpose-filled intentionality. Good mentors—and those they are

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You Have Been Asked To Mentor Someone. What Now?

First steps of Mentoring, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Maybe this should be sub-titled, “Confessions of a long time mentor.”” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] I am still, even after 40+ years of full time mentoring, humbled and honored when someone inquires if I would spend time with them exploring their life and helping them discover their future. One of the hard parts

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How Do You Begin To Find A Mentor?

First steps of Mentoring, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”In some places in our world, mentors are hard to come by. ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The need, hope, demand for good mentors is on the increase. But often people simply do not know where to begin to look. Here at Leadership Design Group, the mentoring we do and train others to

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Mentors Come In Three Categories

Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Too often people think that they do not have a mentor.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Maybe they once did. Kind of. A coach. A teacher. But way too often people will shrug their shoulders, wish they could find a mentor, don’t, and then give up that longing for awhile. Life settles, and that

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The Ultimate Guide to the Best Mentoring Process

First steps of Mentoring, Mentoring for Leaders, Whole Life Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Just like humans, mentoring comes in all shapes, sizes, lengths, colors and intensities. It can be as brief as an hour, or for a lifetime. ” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] However, the best of any form or length of mentoring always has four crucial elements to it. Without the stirring up of these elements,

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Speaking with your body

First steps of Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Watching people is one of my favorite past times. ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In September of 2013 I had the privilege of being in New York City. I arrived earlier than expected, via train, from Baltimore, checked my luggage at Penn Station (since my host was still at work) and took

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Listening with your eyes

First steps of Mentoring / By Wes Roberts

[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Blessed with some truly amazing men and women on our Mentoring Development Team for Leadership Design Group (LDG), I watched them interacting at dinner recently. ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Animated conversations were taking place. They had journeyed to Colorado from around the country. Most of these good souls I’ve mentored in

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