Trusting Yourself
Trust is the glue that holds relationships together. It is the foundation for everything else the follows – the willingness to listen, believe, follow, engage and invest ourselves in others. (more…)
Building a Trust Account
Trust is a lot like a bank account. When you make regular deposits in it your balance builds up. When you make a withdrawal, you need to be sure that you have sufficient trust to cover the transaction. (more…)
Increasing Mentoring Competency in your Organization
Who leads, manages, administers, and coordinates mentoring initiatives in your organization?
If you are a ……. (more…)
Begin with the Building Blocks
The best way to get started creating a mentoring culture is to establish a solid foundation by aligning it with your organization’s goals and infrastructure.
Cultural Alignment
When mentoring aligns with the culture of the organization it ensures mentoring viability and sustainability. It becomes a cultural expectation and seamless organizational practice. (more…)
Working the Relationship
Successful leaders recognize that they need the confidence, support and commitment of those with whom they work.
Strong bonds impact productivity and results. Leaders create relationships with their people by listening, by showing them they care, by recognizing individual assets and finding ways to tap into their strengths. (more…)
High Leverage Activities for Senior Leaders
Leaders create value and visibility for their organizational mentoring initiatives when they engage in high leverage activities. (more…)
Overcoming Resistance to Mentoring
Skeptics, resisters, and potential saboteurs often undermine new mentoring initiatives. The reasons they articulate are legion: “We did mentoring before, and it didn’t work;” “We don’t have the time or resources;” or “We don’t have enough mentors.” (more…)
Celebrate Mentoring!
January was National Mentoring Month. President Obama called upon public officials, business and community leaders, educators, and Americans across the country to observe the month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs. As a result, many organizations saw this proclamation as an opportunity to celebrate mentoring. (more…)
Leaders can be lonely at the top!
Leaders often tell us that one of the drawbacks to being in charge is that they feel lonely and isolated. Ironically, at the very time when leaders need colleagueship the most, they experience it the least. Some loneliness is self-imposed and some is not. Many leaders have difficulty reaching out to others with comparable levels of experience and savvy. Many feel a lack of safety in sharing personal challenges and frustrations with internal colleagues. They are concerned that exposing their own vulnerability may one day bite them in the back, even if what is said is “in confidence.” Yet, particularly in new positions of responsibility and authority, leaders are more effective and less stressed when they bounce ideas off of, see a different perspective, find an experienced guide with and in a trusted advisor. (more…)
Knowing Who You Are
Successful leaders are self aware of just how important it is to manage their own strengths and weakness. We find Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves’ toolkit-in-a-book a useful guide for how to use emotional intelligence to build and maintain relationships and strengthen leadership skills. Emotional Intelligence (more…)
Mentoring Resources
