“Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” ~ John C. Crosby
What is mentoring?
Mentoring is simply the process of getting alongside people to support them in their personal, spiritual or professional development. The Mentoring process takes many forms and there are many types of mentors.
You can expect a mentor to be somewhere between a ‘trusted friend’, ‘a guide’ and a ‘counselor’.
Mentoring is a proven process and works well in most environments, such as school, professional, personal and spiritual. Most of the time when you speak to successful people, they will tell you that they have had mentors.
When you begin a mentoring program, you should know the following …
What do you look for when choosing a mentor ?
- someone who is further along the road to success than you are.
- someone who operates from the same set of values.
- someone you can relate well to.
- someone who is readily available when you are.
- should be available over the phone for a chat or face to face.
- should be enthusiastic about the mentoring process and your development.
- should encourage you and applaud your achievements.
- should keep you accountable to meet deadlines.
- should be well connected and can help you to gain access other people when necessary.
- should help you to set goals that are attainable with deadlines.
- should develop strategies to help you to achieve your goals.
- should give constructive feedback.
- should help you to overcome obstacles and help you to grow from failed attempts.
- should be willing to share their resources with you and to help you develop your own.
- should inspire, encourages and motivate you to be all that you can be.
What should your mentor do for you ?
Of course, some mentoring programs are better than others.
Do your due diligence before choosing a mentoring program. Get to know your potential mentor. This can be personally or based on their body of work.
Talk to other people who have been in their mentoring program. Find out if they can recommend the program. You want to make sure it is worth your time, money and effort. The best way to learn about a mentor and the benefits of their program is to find out what others have to say that have worked with the mentor.
A good mentoring program will provide systematic training, accelerate the learning process and empower you to grow and develop.
A good mentorship program and continuous learning can be a powerful tool and it will allow you to reach your true potential and to progress more quickly than you would on your own.
Before you get started with the mentoring process, make sure you know what to expect, what is expected of you and how you will work together with your mentor.
Mentoring is one of the most effective and rewarding ways for you to grow and develop and reach your full potential. It would be wise to find a mentor to help you take the steps to reach for your dreams.
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Marc Korn
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Those are great point Marc. I remember when Robert Kiyosaki mentioned the importance of having a mentor to guide you in your path to success. I am so grateful to have many 🙂
Hi Yusuf,
Thanks for the comment…it doesn’t matter what your profession is, the best and fastest way to succeed is by following the guidance and mentorship of those that have “been there, done that”
I’ve been fortunate to have many great Mentors, too. There are many out there if people just LQQK !!
Marc,
Having a mentor can be a great stepping stone to get you where you’d like to go. And you’re right, we need to take a look at who the mentor is and what we want to achieve before we start. There have been a couple of occasions where we chose a “mentor” that didn’t serve us as well as we would have hoped. Get to know your mentor first and determine if they are compatible before you begin. This could take some in-depth “research”, but it will be so worth it in the end.
Thanks,
~ Pat and Lorna
http://TheCoolestCouple.com
Hi Pat and Lorna,
Thanks for the reply….I totally agree that taking the extra time to find the right Mentor is well worht the extra effort. I’m sure we have all had Mentors at some point in time that didn’t pan out as we planned.
Hello Marc,
Excellent advise there. We live in such a fast paced society with challenges paving the paths we walk that it is sometimes vital to be able to rely on a mentorship network.
Be it in business, in love and our relationship, to be able to give and receive support is one of the greatest gifts we can give each other.
A good mentor can be a Dad, a Mom, even our Kids, anyone really whom we look to with respect.
To take our role as mentors seriously is a task we should assign ourselves daily.
Stevie
Hi Stevie,
Thanks so much for dropping by and leaving your comment…it is greatly appreciated.
If you speak to any of the most successful Entrepreneurs either online or offline, they will tell you that they had a Mentor in their life to help guide them to their success. A mentor can the difference between success and failure.
I have been fortunate to have some great Mentors in my life and I agree that they come in all shapes and sizes and can be an immediate family member or anyone that you look up to and respect.
One of my Mentors has been Brian Tracy and this is one of my favorite quotes..
“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.” ~ Brian Tracy
To your success,
Marc
It is well explained and easily to understand. Taking so much time and effort will improve your potentials. i believe that mentors are made for our guide.