Persuasive Powerhouse
DECEMBER 5, 2010
I have had my own share of satisfying as well as frustrating mentor-mentee relationships, and its taught me that the person I am mentoring should be taking responsibility for the logistics of our time together as well as their own growth and learning. Stop over and view a different look at the power of mentoring.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 17, 2016
The word servant (with a hat tip to Robert Greenleaf!) Training your employees, not once but constantly, provides more than competence, it helps ensure service wisdom. Whether a thirty-second suggestion or a thirty-minute lesson, great mentoring is done with humility, curiosity and patience. Servants acquiesce; partners assert.
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Modern Servant Leader
OCTOBER 9, 2012
Lastly, Servant Leadership involves a mentoring process to improve not only performance, but also the individual team member under the leaders mentorship. As Greenleaf wrote, there is a healing in the process of serving others. Coach Tony Dungy calls it “Mentor Leadership” and I think this is another way of looking at it.
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 15, 2018
Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 15, 2018
Larry Spears was the CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant-Leadership for nearly two decades. Larry is also the one who studied Greenleaf’s writings for years, extracted and shared the very popular 10 Characteristics of Servant-Leadership. A very humble man, he often points to Robert Greenleaf as the source of his message.
Persuasive Powerhouse
AUGUST 22, 2010
I will almost always suggest, when asked, that training in the skills of coaching are a good thing. I have reviewed books by Parker Palmer and Max DePree who are my mentors on the inner life of leaders. Don’t get me wrong. Do you know who you are as a human? Thank you for sharing this wisdom. I look forward to reading more.
Persuasive Powerhouse
OCTOBER 13, 2010
I also feel that many organizations train their people to be a manager rather than a leader. I have benefitted immensely from working closely (both in proximity and professionally) with professional development coordinators and counselors who have extensive training and experience coaching others. I agree 100% with you.
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