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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring Interview with Lisa Fain (Leadership Without Losing Your Soul | February 2020)

Be ready to take notes as you listen to this powerful interview with Lisa Fain, co-author of Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring. You’ll get practical ways to be a fantastic mentor, a great mentee, and more inclusive leader including:

• The three whys leaders need to know and communicate.
• How leaders create more inclusive teams.
• Why being a mentor will make you a better leader.
• How to be an awesome mentor.
• Why noticing differences is a vital leadership skill.
• The biggest predictor of a mentee’s success.
• The difference between mentoring and coaching.
• How to find the right mentor for you.
• How to be an excellent mentee.
• Pro tips to end a mentoring relationship gracefully.

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Meet Lisa Fain (Power of Appearance | February 2020)

Lisa is a Mentoring Expert, Speaker, and Coach. More Inclusive Organizations through Mentoring. Better Leaders through Coaching.

She is president of the Center for Mentoring Excellence®, a 25-year old company that is the destination for organizations and leaders seeking to achieve better business results through mentoring excellence. The Center, a division of Leadership Development Services LLC, provides comprehensive solutions to promote mentoring through learning, growth, and inclusion.

Lisa is a positive and energetic leader with tools for mentoring success that can apply to everyone. Her new book is loaded with brilliance for bridging our differences, a subject of great need.

Her book, BRIDGING DIFFERENCES FOR BETTER MENTORING, Lean Forward, Lear, Leverage co-authored with Dr. Lois J. Zachary can be purchased on Amazon.

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The Two-Way Mentoring Relationship (What’s the Difference? | March 2019)

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• How Lisa found her way into the field of diversity and inclusion and mentoring, and why she left her career in a legal firm
• Why Lisa decided to bring diversity and inclusion work into her position at Coinstar/Redbox
• Why Lisa believes mentoring is a powerful tool in diversity and inclusion work, and in what areas it is best suited for furthering that work
• How Lisa works to train and certify future mentors in diversity, inclusion and cultural competency
• Why mentoring should be a two-way relationship, and what lessons the mentor can learn from the mentee
• Why Lisa doesn’t like the term “reverse mentoring”, and why all effective mentoring relationships are co-mentoring
• Why building trust between participants is the key to developing successful mentoring relationships
• What Lisa believes the future holds for the integration of cultural competency and mentorship training
• Why non-dyadic mentoring (triads, circles and peer mentoring) are growing areas within the business world
• What advice Lisa has for people new to diversity and inclusion and mentoring efforts
• How Lisa and her mother are writing a book on cultural competency that will be released in 2020

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Cultural Competency: Enhancing Organizational Ownership of Diversity and Inclusion

David Worley: Groler Podcast | February 2019

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important initiatives in organizations today. In this episode, we explore the concept of cultural competency as a needed “next step” for these types of initiatives.

SHOW NOTES

3:00 – What is cultural competency? Diversity is who is in the room. Inclusion is what we seek to gain… cultural competency is how you do that.

5:00 – How do organizations stand to benefit from increased cultural competency? “Ending up with diversity in the room and no idea how to leverage it…” Understanding our lenses… Getting curious about these differences…

7:00 – How to encourage the ownership of difference in an organization? Ownership means recognizing the need to be curious. Having a growth mindset…

9:50 – Advice to organizations struggling with diversity, equity, and inclusion. Creating awareness…the metaphor of the iceberg – “what shapes your iceberg?”

12:00 – The acknowledgment of differences is an essential first step.

13:40 – Advice specifically to leaders who are experiencing diversity breakdowns in their organization. Look at your own biases…and relationships. Your own diversity story…

16:00 – What is happening at the top of the organization?

16:20 – Look at the data.

17.20 – The more leaders can create authentic relationships across differences, the more they will build their cultural competency and create an inclusive environment.

18:00 – The importance of listening and asking questions… Generational differences towards cultural competency.

20:00 – The challenges of engaging diversity issues when you come from a homogenous environment.

PRODUCER’S NOTE
This is a re-released episode of the Groler Podcast with some new features and in shortened form. If you would like to engage the original, you will find it as episode #2 on the Groler Podcast listing.

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IJP #28 (Insight Junkie | October 2016)

After years of working as a lawyer and becoming a high powered attorney Lisa’s 2 year old daughter changed her life path with one sentence. Lisa left law and her high income to pursue a career in coaching. Lisa has grown her company from nothing to something that is thriving and growing daily. Catch her amazing story and some great advice in this episode!