What is mentoring?
"Mentoring is for the mentee. Most of all, for the mind of the mentee.
I think that Mentoring needs to focus on and develop the mentee's finest independent thinking about their work, their career, their life, their dreams.
The Mentor's perspective is an important ingredient in this special relationship. But it feeds. It is not the feast".
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Tag Archives: Motivation
What motivates you?
It is often believed that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with the “carrot and stick” approach, and in particular for the reward to be money-related. Research from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has shown that the “carrot and stick’ approach can only have a limited influence on motivation in today’s world. […]
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Relationship between mindset and motivation
Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford University has been studying the link between motivation and achievement for nearly 40 years. She has discovered that you can hold either of two different views or “mindsets” of your own intelligence. Only one of these mindsets is strongly linked to mastery which is one of the three […]
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Being at your ‘best’ as a mentor / mentee
What can you do to help yourself to ‘be at your best’ as a mentor and / or a mentee? Other related activities have helped you to look at what motivates you and what the relationship is between your ‘mindset’ and motivation. The more that you know and understand about yourself, the easier it becomes to […]
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