First steps of Mentoring

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”What is it you really believe to be true about life?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Your life. No one else.  Just you. Profoundly you… What is it you really believe to be true about your life? You and everyone you know (…and don’t know…) have initially been placed here on Planet Earth for […]

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I am intrigued…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …by the etymology of the word “transformation.” This is the 4th Pillar of the “best of mentoring” we are exploring in this space. Merriam-Webster, a long-time favorite go-to dictionary, defines etymology as an explanation of where a word came from: the history of a word. I

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The third of four pillars…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …that help to define the intent of the best of mentoring we call “whole-life”. As shared in the last two weeks, the best of mentoring is always concerned with being intentional, moving toward deep change. No matter what is being explored, discovered, talked over,

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Continuing Thoughts on the Best of Mentoring…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] This week we will have celebrated Martin Luther King Day here in the US of A. Let us learn from his legacy. He, among many, bring to mind the crucial importance of the next pillar of the Best of Mentoring: Deep Change.

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The Best of Mentoring…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …will always rest on four pillars. Without these, it’s just a pleasant conversation, which is good to have, but it will not be the best of mentoring that makes a difference and changes lives, over time. Intentional… The best of mentoring is always intentional. Just

[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

[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

[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

[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