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Three main factors go into building trust-based mentoring relationships: competence, integrity, and caring. In this newsletter series, we will explore how you and your mentoring partners can leverage these areas to create powerful and transformational experiences.
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Three main factors go into building trust-based mentoring relationships: competence, integrity, and caring. In this newsletter series, we will explore how you and your mentoring partners can leverage these areas to create powerful and transformational experiences.
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In today’s turbulent world, leaders are tasked with managing increasing complexity. Through the vigilant practice of awareness, leaders can make the most of emerging possibilities.
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In this article, we examine the leadership attribute of building community and describe a process you can practice in your mentoring relationship to help you develop this skill.
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In this article, we will explore the basis of social power and how to leverage mentorship to become more powerful.
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Everyone enters mentoring relationships with varying degrees of trust in their partners. These differences often stem from personal experiences and background.
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In this article, we discuss attributes of effective leaders and describe practices you can use with your mentoring partner to become more effective in commanding the big picture.
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Have you ever engaged in a conversation with someone and realized that you knew a lot about the situation and people involved?
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Your cultural lenses create a filter through which four critical mentoring dimensions must pass. Greater understanding of these dimensions in light of cultural perspective can create a more productive and fulfilling mentoring relationship.
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In this issue, we will explore a way to transform challenges that can cause frustration into opportunities to demonstrate care—and in the end, increase trust.
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In this issue, we will examine how commiseration plays a unique role in showing that you care for your mentoring partners, and in turn helps you build trust in one another.
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In this article, we discuss how to prepare to engage your mentoring partner in discussions on important or critical issues that you are facing in order to make the most of your time together.
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Empathy is an important leadership attribute that directly impacts your ability to relate well to others. When it comes to leading others, empathy is a clear difference maker.
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Your mindset can have a huge impact on your ability to be productive. If you want to get the most out of mentorship, you will want to ensure that you remain in a productive mindset.
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This issue will begin our look at how integrity can be present in your relationships and how this can support building trust-based mentoring relationships.
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This issue focuses on the compelling reasons why a broader, more collaborative view of mentoring is essential in today's hyperconnected, fast-paced world.
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This article explores how different levels of expertise show up in mentoring and how you can ensure effective communication across three distinct levels of expertise: beginner, practitioner, and expert.
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In this article, we examine the leadership attribute of foresight, describe a process to use to develop this skill, and discuss how to leverage your mentoring relationship to improve your effectiveness.
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Mentorship is meant to be a learning relationship where both parties benefit from spirited sharing. To get the most from your mentoring experience, you must fully engage your mentoring partner.
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Understanding functional differences with your mentoring partner can be critical to ensuring the success of your relationship.
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This article examines how different generations view mentoring and offers ideas for leveraging generational differences.
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Geographical differences are common in mentoring, creating unique mentoring dynamics for partners; seeing your partner face-to-face can impact you differently than only meeting with your partner virtually.
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To be effective, it is critical that leaders learn to build and sustain healthy relationships as they ply their trade. One way to accomplish this is by resolving conflicts and restoring harmony, which in turn helps others feel whole, healthy or sound.
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Leaders who are committed to the growth of others and are able to reach beyond their own needs and desires to unleash the future potential of others will command respect and loyalty from those they help.
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Mentoring is about helping the learner transition into a higher level of understanding and experience, and the dialogue that takes place in mentoring conversations is the most effective way to share tacit (implicit) understandings and experiences.
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In this article, we examine the leadership attribute of listening as it correlates to attentive leadership and discuss the mindset needed for productive listening.
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Promoting a mentoring program in these tough times can be difficult, but that does not imply that abandoning mentoring is the right approach. In fact, an economic downturn may be one of the best times to expand mentoring and leverage its proven value in retaining and developing workforces.
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Different learning needs benefit from different kinds of advisors. We advocate different modes of mentoring for career development, topical understanding and situational solution. In this newsletter, we will explore these three broad categories of learning needs.
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Have you ever engaged someone in a conversation when you knew very little about them—and even less about how you could help them achieve their goals?
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Have you ever engaged in a conversation with someone and realized that even though you had some knowledge of the situation under consideration and of the people involved, you could not fully participate because you needed to understand more of both?
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In this article, we examine how persuasion may appear to others and describe best practices for using this skill effectively.
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There are different relational dynamics that need to be managed depending on the amount of social power you have in relation to your mentoring partner.
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In this article, we explore the attitudes and actions that will help you prepare for productive mentoring conversations so that you can make the most of your time together.
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If you really want to get to know your mentoring partner and increase the likelihood that you will generate new awareness and learning, then you will want to conduct productive conversations.
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Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and realized that even though you knew a lot about the people involved, you were very unfamiliar with the situation being discussed?
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In this article, we examine the leadership attribute of stewardship and discuss how to leverage your mentoring relationship to improve your effectiveness.
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In mentoring, four typical styles exist: Initiator, Connector, Encourager, and Processor. Triple Creek created the Mentoring Styles Model to help individuals understand and manage their behavioral differences.
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Have you ever been in a conversation with someone and realized that even though you knew very little about the people involved, you were very familiar with the situation being discussed? (OMG! The same thing happened to me.)
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The measure of a productive mentoring dialogue is the resulting action that it produces. Effective mentoring increases ability or skill, with the ultimate goal of mentoring being personal or professional transformation.
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In this issue, we will look at how a mentoring relationship can support the development process and individual integrity though mutually agreed upon accountability.
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In this newsletter, we will explore how our learning needs should expand our view of who could best advise us and how that impacts the makeup of our mentoring network.
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