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Is Mentoring Right For You?

If you are considering mentoring a younger person, here are some things to think about.

Make sure that mentoring is for you. Most effective mentors truly, deeply enjoy helping younger people grow and develop. Make sure you're likely to enjoy the process before you take it on.

Make sure you have the time and flexibility. If your schedule is already overloaded or you're under stress at home, you might want to consider holding off on a mentoring commitment until things are a little less hectic.

Make sure you know what you bring to the table. None of us is good at everything, but every one of us is really good at something. If you know what you're good at and what other things you may bring to the table, you're more likely to be successful.

In his excellent book, Winning, Jack Welch says that "There is no one right mentor. There are many right mentors." From your perspective, that means you don't have to do everything. You aren't the only place that your protégé should get help.

Make sure you know what kind of people you like to work with and which ones are hard for you. Mentoring should be a pleasant relationship for both of you.

Make sure you know what you expect from your protégé. It's a good idea to tell him or her what you expect them to do. Clear expectations are vital to a mentoring relationship.

Make sure you know that a good mentoring relationship should be a good experience for both of you. You should both enjoy it. You should both grow and develop. And you should both make a friend for life.

Mentoring can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your career or it can be a frustrating and time-consuming trial. Make sure you know what you're getting into.

Wally Bock is an author, speaker, consultant and coach who helps leaders improve the performance and morale of their teams. Wally is the author of Performance Talk: The One-on-One Part of Leadership (http://www.performancetalk.com/) and the Three Star Leadership Blog (http://blog.threestarleadership.com/). You'll also find tips and resources about all aspects of leadership at the Three Star Leadership site (http://www.threestarleadership.com/). Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Wally_Bock

Mentoring Programs Might Be The Answer

Some say our educational system is failing? Is it? Or are we just very critical. Indeed there are things which need changing, such as teachers pay, over prescribing behavior drugs, lack of interest in science and math. Yet how bad is it really? Well we also have a gang problem and many teachers feel they are merely babysitters.

What is missing is really good mentoring programs. And so one online think tank took up the subject recently and discussed this issue at length. One of the members stated;

“I know that mentor programs for inner-city at-risk youth make a huge difference, so what about something like that for felons or misdemeantants? That is not to say that they get a blank slate and get to work with CEOs, but regular, law-abiding folks who work hard every day? clergy?”

Interesting and I agree to a point, however in studying the doers of the world it appears to me that many of the criminals have high rates of body chemicals rushing thru the brain, like an athlete and they are more “turned on” so to speak, operating at different times at higher optimum levels, thru genetic dispensation [perhaps survival skills to evade saber tooth tigers?]. And some of course has been nurture too of how to channel these chemical flows.

So what I am saying is that a criminal, who ramps up chemical reaction and creates a discharge which is unhealthy in a politically correct world or rules of society thru some sort of outburst or worse a criminal act, is for the most part unable to control his or her genetic displacement, meaning they may actually be more human and better adapted in prior periods to survive.

Also such a person with this chemical rush available to them, would be better suited as a politician or CEO and perhaps not stuck in a job THEY might consider or in their minds believe to be meaningless. And who are we to decide what that might be?

If you are saying that anyone who has been convicted of a misdermeanor or other crime be put into a dead end job, well perhaps you might ask yourself how you would feel if someone else determined that of you? And in suggesting this one could psychologically profile you as a hypocrite or that you think you are better than everyone else? So do you think you are better than everyone else? If so why? State your accomplishments please. Fore you maybe “better” and if you are, wouldn’t that mean you should determine your line of work? And doesn’t that then make you a narcissist who might commit a crime?

If we have strong mentoring programs and channel energies into activities and future careers, hobbies and allow children to set goals, we may find all that energy we think is criminal in nature becomes a positive force and involves its self in positive activities? What say you? Consider all this in 2006.

Lance Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow

Why Mentoring Matters To You

There are many roles we play or hats we wear in our lives. We are professionals, family members, brothers, sisters, co-workers, leaders, coaches, friends, parents, and neighbors to name just a few. While you may not wear all of the hats I listed, you can likely add several more that I left out! Many of these roles are a given – we don’t have much choice of having the role – they come with being a responsible adult.

Because of these many roles, we find ourselves very busy. Many tasks and priorities find us perhaps busier now than we have ever been before!

With these two factors, many roles and little time, it may seem absurd to write an article that encourages taking on yet another role and adding another task to your over-booked calendar. But that is exactly what I am going to do. In this article I’m going to show you why, despite the competition for our time and energy, being a mentor is one of the best things you can do.

There are many reasons why being a mentor is valuable to the other person. They get the value of ....