January 2009

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Is your organization talking about issues like these?

I came across a company, called Perrone-Ambrose Associates (http://www.paamentoring.com/) and they are providing practical and impactful mentoring and coaching programs, tools, and services today for shaping the leaders of tomorrow.

 
They were saying that if your organization is talking about certain issues, like:
·         We need to do something to prepare people for leadership positions.
·         We hire and train people who then leave to work for our competitors.
·         Our people come up through one part of the organization and that’s all they know.
·         Our managerial and leadership ranks lack diversity.
 
It`s time to call for a intern mentor program. If you want to know more about mentor program send me an email on teg@mentorblogg.com

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Myth about mentoring #4 LEARNING

Myth:
The mentor is done learning and know everything and adept is there to learn.

 
Fact:
The person who thinks he is finish learning is finish. The mentor also has to work hard to develop his competence. Mentoring is mutual learning.

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Mentor prepare yourself

Good mentoring relationship starts with preparation by both parties. As a mentor you should be as aware as possible of what you have to contribute and how your potential contributions can match the needs of the adept.
 
The adepts too, might prepare a list of questions about what they hope to get out of the mentoring relationship.
 
The following checklist will give you an idea of the things you will benefit from clarifying as a mentor:
 

  1. What carees ecperiences have helped me most in my own professional development?
  2. What were the most important lessons learned from those lessons?
  3. What "truths" would I want to pass on from those lessons?
  4. If I were to contribute one quotation to my own book about succeding in this organization, what would that quote be?
  5. What have mentors done for me and my development? What kinds of mentoring experiences have been most helpful to me?
  6. If I had the power, what would I change about any of the mentors I have had?
  7. How relevant do I believe my experiences and my professional learning will be to the development of my adept?
  8. As a mentor, how would I like to be remembered?
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Trainers in Europe

 
Right now I am working, together with Kai Roer (www.bebetter.no)  on a really exciting mentor program, for trainers in Europe. Junior Chamber international (www.jci.cc) is a worldwide organization for young leaders between 18 and 40 year.
They operate more and more like a professional training organization and aim to continuously develop new and young trainers by coaching and providing opportunities to train with more experienced trainers.
 
And I am developing a mentoring program to increase the number of trainers in Europe in 2009. In short we provide a trainer (adept) with a more experienced trainer (mentor) to help the adepts further in their trainer career. Especially for trainers who wants to train outside their own country. We put the adept and mentor together and train the mentors to be a good mentor in seminars across Europe in 2009.
 
Hopefully we get as much as 30 adept and mentor pairs (our goal) working together to boost their training career.
I will post more about this and if you have any question write them her at the www.mentorblogg.com

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How to implement peer to peer mentoring

This is a good step by step guide from the Mentoring specialist Judith Germain on how to embed a peer to peer mentoring programme within an internal comms department.
 
Read more her http://maverickmastery.com/leadership/how-to-implement-peer-to-peer-mentoring/
 
Anyone care to comment that one?

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