With this, I was recently leading a session with a group of people who were all very interested in helping others develop various aspects of their careers and lives. In a quick and very informal poll of the room I asked: “How many of you can reflect back on your own journey and say with confidence that you know you benefitted from someone else having provided you with valuable input into your personal or professional development?” Within moments, it seemed that every hand in the room was raised.
Does that surprise you?
It seems that "The Mentor's Path" has a way of finding us in many ways! Yet are indeed very fortunate if we have these generous people at some point in our lives. For it is often those very same people who, every now and again, speak into our lives and provide us with a very real sense of stunningly brilliant clarity.
Mentors can do that. Mentors can help accelerate the development of others, but there is a potential danger. Those involved in a mentoring relationship need to watch that even well-meaning don’t cross over into moulding their Mentees into carbon-copies, or clones of themselves.
In this video Dr. Carson Pue, Executive Mentor Coach with Quadrant Leadership Inc. talks further on this topic and offers a wealth of additional valuable perspectives with respect to Mentorship. Dr. Pue talks about the following “5 stages of Mentorship”:
- Identity – Helping to understand who you are, gifts & weaknesses
- Freeing Up – Help in areas where we get stuck in life and moving forward
- Visioneering – Seeing your purpose - what are you called to do?
- Implementing – Putting the plan into action, connecting with the right people to move forward
- Sustaining – Keeping on track, and sticking with it
Note: The introduction to this video is similar to one that we posted earlier, however most of the content seen here is new. If you would like to view the video clip we posted earlier, the following URL will take you there: https://youtu.be/HMQfRlYXLVE
Carson Pue is recognized as a ‘leader of leaders’ who has an ability to identify leaders and invest wisdom into their development through mentoring, teaching and spiritual guidance.
He is the best selling author of “Mentoring Leaders: Wisdom for Developing Calling, Character, and Competency” and has also authored “Mentoring Wisdom: Living and Leading Well.”
For fourteen years he was the President and CEO of Arrow Leadership Ministries regarded as a premier leadership development mentoring process for emerging and executive leaders.
Today Carson is the Executive Advisor for a multi-million dollar city building project of First Baptist Church Vancouver called “Heart for the City.” He also heads up Quadrant Leadership Inc. doing executive mentoring, speaking and writing. With his encouraging style, creative ideas, engaging humor and years of experience, Carson is well fitted for this role. In his straightforward manner Carson shares both from success and failures, believing that leaders learn from both.
In closing this post, please feel free to add your comments. How would you describe "The Mentor's Path" or what additional comments would you like to provide? We'd be pleased to hear from you and share your helpful thoughts on Mentoring Relationships.
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