Mentoring 101 - By John C. Maxwell
My dad, daughter and I got away for a mini-retreat the other night. They had bought some BB gun rifles and targets and wanted to spend a day together shooting their new buys. My dad so kindly showed my daughter all about the gun, the different types of targets, and then proceeded to teach her how to shoot. He first showed her how to shoot by him shooting first. Then he demonstrated shooting again as she held hers and mimicked each thing he did while standing by his side. Then my dad encouraged her to shoot as he observed her, allowing him to see where he could provide feedback and suggestion to her stance, or aim, yet letting her put to test all she had just learned from him. Finally, he stepped back and just cheered her on. It wasn’t long before he began calling her "Annie Oakley” as she was nailing targets left and right.
I sat there watching their interaction and grateful for the care and instruction my dad was providing my daughter. The time he was investing in her, the cheering her on as she hit the target, and guided instruction if she missed. I just happened to be finishing up the book Mentoring 101 by John C. Maxwell as all of this unfolded, and thought to myself what a perfect example of mentoring I just had displayed before my eyes in watching my father and my daughter.
In Mentoring 101, the author provides the steps needed to effectively reproduce your success in someone else. He explains how to choose the right person to mentor, how to create the right environment for leaders to thrive and grow, and how to get started. From adopting a mentor’s mind-set and finding who you should mentor, to how you can set them up for success and even watching people pass you by, the author provides both clarity and easily applicable strategies that will overall help you “grow and become the best person you can be” through your mentoring.
Labeled as a Business-Personal-Faith book as joy can be brought to all mentors regardless of if you are serving as one in a business role, personal role model, or even a woman or man of faith. Bottomline is to be intentional in developing others, serving others, and being a positive leader of influence.
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