Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career

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According to a recent study, the supply-demand imbalance is severe: while more than 75% of professional men and women want to have a mentor, only 37% have one. What’s more, most of the people currently acting as mentors aren’t having as dramatic an impact as they could because they’re too narrowly focused on career advancement. In 2018, I spent a few hours with a Stanford University research librarian pulling up all the articles, studies and books on mentoring we could find. We found that the vast majority focus on how it is practiced in the workplace and how organization-wide programs are administered. There was remarkably little analysis or advice on how to mentor the whole person, extending beyond the career to include discussions about behavior, values, relationships, parenting, finances, and even spiritual life. In my experience as a Wall Street executive for 35 years, as a mentor to many colleagues and friends, and now as the president of a non-profit dedicated to helping leade

Career coaching Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career by Rick Woolworth August 9, 2019 Dmitri Otis/Getty Images Post Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print Summary . Aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than they’re getting today. According to a recent study , ... more Leer en español Ler em português Post Post Share Save Get PDF Buy Copies Print Aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than they’re getting today. Rick Woolworth is co-founder and president of Telemachus , a non-profit with a mission of mentoring emerging leaders. He previously worke

Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career

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