KMC 9) COMMITMENT (Part 3 - NEW VIDEO)

Key Mentorship Characteristics (KMC)

When it comes to COMMITMENT within a Mentoring relationship, we thought you would find the following comments helpful in building a better Mentorship Relationship for both the Mentee and the Mentor! 

NEW VIDEO CLIP related to "COMMITMENT" ...

Over the past few years we've asked several of our interviewees for their thoughts related to some of the Key Characteristics that we’ve seen within Healthy Mentoring Relationships. We're using these to develop a compilation for each characteristic and uploading them to our YouTube Channel. 

We invite you to add your thoughts, comments, experiences and wisdom to that being shared by some of our many experts on this topic. 

Listen to their responses, compare them with your own experience and then share your thoughts on BOTH our YouTube Channel and on this post to the Mentorship BLOG.

Before viewing the video clip, we want to express our deep appreciation and special thanks to these friends for sharing their time and Mentorship experience with all of us, and helping us to bring this collection to you:
 * Jared Smith,  Principal at "Incite"
 * David Saxby - Spark Communications Inc.
 * Al Petersen - Petersen Buick GMC
 * Norm Greenwood - Greenwood 2 Management
 * Dr. William A. Gray - Mentoring Solutions
 * Claire Clark - Aboriginal Women's Professional Association
 * Peter Bradbury, MBA, CA - Calgary Volunteer Business Mentor (Retired)
 

HERE IS THE LINK TO OUR VIDEO: 
     Title: Mentorship Characteristics - "COMMITMENT" 
  
TO VIEW THE VIDEO CLICK HERE:  URL link http://youtu.be/SsGRGdjx-Go

NOW it's YOUR TURN! - Please feel free to share your comments and experiences with respect to this aspect of mentorship. 

WHAT'S been your experience with respect to COMMITMENT within MENTORSHIP?

Also, help us to reach others who could benefit from participating in this discussion. We welcome your 'sharing' this page with those in your circle of contacts!

Questions:

   • What is the role of COMMITMENT within a mentoring relationship?

   • What does COMMITMENT mean to you?

   • How is COMMITMENT developed between the mentoring partners?

Glenn Furuya - Mentorship Moments (RELATIONSHIP - NEW VIDEO)

We felt we had to share this with you because there seemed to be such a great connection between the comments in this video clip and our discussion on the topic of COMMITMENT within Mentorship Relationships.

It was a special treat for us to meet with Glenn Furuya, President & CEO at Leadership Works, LLC just over a year ago in Honolulu, Hawaii. Glenn is an expert in leadership and employee development - serving a wide variety of clients and industries throughout the world since 1982. 

Here's a portion of our discussion with Glenn where he talks about aspects related to COMMITMENT within a Mentorship relationship.  Glenn underscores the importance of understanding the Life Cycle Process, and that the key to development requires a systemic process of continuity and regularity. Leadership requires a frequency of contact ... It needs to be there. It needs to become, "a habitual ritual". 

Here is a link to these key thoughts in our video: 
 Glenn Furuya - Mentorship Moments (Relationship)

The bottom line: Mentorship requires frequency of contact in order to successfully continue. That frequency comes through the development of the Mentorship Relationship over time. In other words, it comes down to COMMITMENT. 

THANKS FOR THE INSIGHTS ON THIS GLENN!

We look forward to hearing your thoughts on Mentorship, or on developing a mentorship program for your organization. 

PLEASE LEAVE A FEW COMMENTS RELATED TO WHAT YOU'VE SEEN AND HEARD. 

P.S. - Our full interview with Glenn Furuya can also be found on our YouTube Channel and a direct link to Glenn's full interview is provided by clicking HERE.  

KMC 9) - COMMITMENT (Part 1)

Key Mentorship Characteristics (KMC) 

1) COMMITMENT - A state or quality of dedication to a cause, purpose, or activity that restricts or limits the parties from taking on additional obligations due to the importance they place on the priority and significance of their relationship.

We invite you to comment and respond to this discussion on the role of “COMMITMENT” in Mentorship relationships. This is one of a series of BLOG posts related to Key Characteristics found within Healthy Mentoring Relationships.

* IN THIS POST - Prof David Clutterbuck, David Clutterbuck Partnership (United Kingdom)

Please feel free to share your experience with respect to this aspect of mentorship and invite others to participate where you feel they could add value to our discussion.

We asked:

•       What is the role of COMMITMENT within a mentoring relationship?

•       What does COMMITMENT mean to you?

•       How is COMMITMENT developed between the mentoring partners?

Here are some comments from one of our friends, respected professionals and experts who are familiar with this subject:

Prof. David Clutterbuck

David Clutterbuck was one of the very early pioneers of mentoring and coaching. Author of 55 books, a third of them on coaching and mentoring themes, he is visiting professor at both Sheffield Hallam and Oxford Brookes Universities.  David co-founded the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and chairs the International Standards for Mentoring Programs in Employment.

   

Professor David Clutterbuck has said that (as with New Year's Resolutions), Personal Development Plans are built on good intentions. Unfortunately, he says, both have a poor track record of delivering change!

The problem is that good intentions don't on their own provide enough sustained impetus to embed new habits and shed old ones. So Clutterbuck suggests that it's useful for coaches and mentors to use a certain degree of caution when it comes to initially presented goals, and to establish as best they can, the ‘level of commitment’ that the client brings to these goals.

This is one place where ‘scaling’ can be particularly helpful, and even more so, where you attach labels to each number from 1 to 10. So, for example, a 10 would mean that ‘nothing will get in my way’, whereas a 1 would essentially be saying, ‘over my dead body!’ Experience suggests that any commitment less than a six won't get done, as other priorities are almost certain to get in the way. Of course, commitment alone isn't enough either. For change to happen, the client needs a plan of action, support from others and positive feedback as they implement their change plan. In exploring commitment, the coach or mentor can also help the client work out how they will sustain the momentum of change.

In this regard, here are some good questions to ask:

• What are you prepared to commit to, here and now?  
• Who are you prepared to commit to, who you would deeply not want to let down?  
• What would make you more committed to this goal?  
• How could you ensure it has a higher priority for you and other influencers?  
• How will you ensure that you keep this commitment front of mind in the weeks/ months to come?

Prof David Clutterbuck
David Clutterbuck Partnership
Woodlands, Tollgate, Maidenhead, Berks, UK

Website: www.davidclutterbuckpartnership.com

NOW - Please feel free to share your comments and experiences with respect to this aspect of mentorship.  Also, help us to reach others who could benefit from participating in this discussion. We welcome your 'sharing' this page with those in your circle of contacts!

Questions:

• What is the role of COMMITMENT within a mentoring relationship?
• What does COMMITMENT mean to you?
• How is COMMITMENT developed between the mentoring partners?

INVITATION to COMMENT - on “COMMITMENT” in Mentorship

Here's an opportunity to add a few of your thoughts to upcoming posts on the topic of Mentorship!

We’re developing a series of BLOG posts related to Key Characteristics found within Healthy Mentoring Relationships. Input is being solicited from across various social media platforms we currently use, but please feel free to invite others to participate where you feel they could add value to our discussion!

Selected comments will be fully acknowledged, so we ask that you include your name, business name and website URL (as may be applicable) in order to be recognized for your voluntary contribution of comments. The completed post will be promoted within our circle of social media contacts, and we encourage you to share them with your circle of contacts!

This specific REQUEST FOR INPUT is regarding “COMMITMENT” within the mentorship relationship.
 

* If you’ve had experience with Mentorship, please help us with your comments related to the following questions:

• What is the role of COMMITMENT within a mentoring relationship?
• What does COMMITMENT mean to you?
• How is COMMITMENT developed between the mentoring partners?
  

We are looking forward to your comments and would greatly appreciate if they could be received prior to October 18, 2013 to be considered for the pending post on COMMITMENT. 

(Comments received after the due date may still be included in future posts.)

Thanks for your participation.

We wish you the best of success in all your endeavors!

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