Interested in #mentoring

Interest stats:

  • Interested since: 2011
  • Looking for mentorship: Got one! Diana Kimball.
  • Willing to mentor: Not quite yet.
  • Level of interest: 8
  • Level of mastery: 1

Origin story:

This just all of a sudden jumped onto my zeitgeist last year, as a strategy for self-improvement that I hadn’t really considered before.  Diana Kimball started this cool /mentoring movement that got me excited.  Then I read about article by Atul Gawande called Personal Best in the New Yorker.  We were running into engagement issues on Health Month and accountability became one of the most frequently mentioned suggested features to help with that.  It was mentioned multiple times at Camp Mighty by speakers as the best way to continue development and growth in areas that you feel like you’ve started to plateau on.

What really got me was the idea that even masters of their crafts could have coaches, mentors, etc.  It definitely resonated with me as a good idea.  So, I started putting it out there as something I could offer to people, and that I’d be interested in finding a mentor myself, and everyone seemed to be keen on the idea.  Excited to see where it leads.

Current focus:

Testing the waters.  Finding a couple people to mentor, and finding a mentor for myself.  What does it take to be a good mentor? Is there a way to make mentoring scale, or is it an inherently 1-on-1, time-intensive, pursuit?  What tools can help?

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