Mentoring Skills

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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