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"Mentors and Mentoring"
We are kicking off our blog with a series on mentors and mentoring. Both Max De Pree and Walter Wright have spent years being mentored and mentoring others. Mentors and mentorees have played significant roles in both their lives. They even wrote about some of their experiences in the monograph Mentoring: Two Voices, which they [...]
Continue Reading →Mentor was the tutor whom Odysseus asked to watch over and encourage his son Telemachus’ learning and development when Odysseus went off to fight the Trojan Wars in Homer’s epic poem Odyssey. Over the years mentor has become a useful word to describe those advisors, guides, heroes, Sherpas, teachers who care about us and encourage [...]
Continue Reading →Mentors are teachers, models, advocates and catalysts. We seek out mentors to assist our growth, to stimulate our learning, to challenge our thinking, broaden our perspective, affirm our aspirations and illustrate a path through the uncertainty of tomorrow. If we are living, we are learning; if we are not learning, we are dying. Living things [...]
Continue Reading →Don’t ask someone to be your mentor. Asking someone to be your mentor is like proposing marriage on the first date. Until you define the terms of the relationship, the prospect can be frightening. Mentoring is a relationship of self-directed learning. Mentoring develops leadership and stimulates personal renewal. It is a wonderful resource for learning. [...]
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