What is Mentoring?
James Giantis
Founder at Mentors & More, Author of The Mentor's Training Manual, Battling The Addiction Of Screen Life and The Empathy Guidebook
Everyone needs mentoring. Mentoring involves connection and need fulfillment, but it also should include inspiration, role modeling, guidance, teaching, feedback, correction and even discipline if necessary.?
How do you define mentoring?
Do you think of yourself as a mentor?
Have you been mentored in the past or are you being mentored currently??
If you’re like most of us, you likely define mentoring as a relationship involving some form of leadership and the answer is yes to each of the questions above. If so, then mentoring is an important aspect of your life. As it should be. Join us as we explore mentoring and our particular way of thinking about and doing it.
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INTRODUCTION TO MENTORS & MORE
Every single one of us at some point in our lives needs someone to role model, guide, teach or train us to become more capable and more willing to complete the tasks to accomplish goals. This could include such goals as making the bed, initiating a conversation, solving high level math problems or the ever-difficult process of resolving guilt from having made a mistake or done something wrong.?
And so, mentoring can involve nearly any aspect of a person's life. Any time we provide others with what they need relationally to become more capable and motivated to manage themselves involves mentoring.?
James Giantis, the founder of Mentors and More, has been providing mentoring (adult to youth) and coaching (adult to adult) services for over thirty years to youths, adolescents and adults. He has developed an innovative philosophy, system and approach to leadership training.?
“There are many ways to define mentoring. To me, it simply boils down to using leadership, conveying the verbal and nonverbal messages to try to influence a mentee to be both willing and capable of successfully completing the actions necessary to accomplish goals. Good goals. Ones that truly benefit the mentee and those they influence.”