27. share yourself
your skills, your
knowledge, your
experiences…
…but also your
vulnerability, your
failures, because
it’s not just what
you know, it’s
how you came to
know it
41. SPEAK UP!
• about what you
don’t get…
• about what your
vision is – your
goals…
• be you!
42. Resources:
Toastmasters International - The Successful Club Series - Mentoring 296A
https://www.toastmasters.org/shop/296--Mentoring
Mentoring Matters
https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/articles/mentoring-matters
Leadership: The Ultimate Mentor
https://www.toastmasters.org/Magazine/Articles/Leadership-The-Ultimate-Mentor
New Club Mentoring Matters 218G
https://www.toastmasters.org/-/media/files/department-documents/club-
documents/218g-new-club-mentoring-
matters.ashx?la=en&hash=0583B0D09DCC4B94479C7D1CB9E523213637DAAE
43. simple mentoring
TOM OTSTOT, ACS ALS
Unity Speakers
Airpark Toastmasters
Leaders for Tomorrow
tomotstot@gmail.com
www.tomotstot.com
MENTORING – HELPING OTHERS FIND THEIR HIGHEST CALLING – THEIR BEST VERSION
Eventually, if we stay in it long enough, we realize WE CANNOT BE THE BEST VERSION OF OURSELVES UNTIL WE HELP OTHERS BECOME THE BEST VERSION OF THEMSELVES
HOW do we do this?
So my program is SIMPLE MENTORING, and it’s a bit different than typical TLI, let me explain why
Make no mistake, Mentoring is the essence of leadership. It’s leadership…one on one.
Because there is a dichotomy to everything. I talked about the dichotomy of leadership and mentoring is the same thing.
I want to share my experience instead of nuts and bolts. You can get that anywhere on the internet. I don’t teach the science, I teach the art. Do you really want to read the textbook?
I want to focus on the soul of mentoring. The Essence. For example…
Your body is engineered to manipulate your environment. But without the soul, it’s worthless. Same with Mentoring and Leadership.
But never forget Mentoring is a relationship. And I think TM gets this backwards a bit. Because…
You can’t force this relationship. You don’t ASSIGN someone a friend, or a spouse, and I thing a mentor.
You have to know them. Mark Brown story. Then Dan McGinnis
You need to be able to relate, and you need to invest the time.
Not a pet owner…you don’t impose your will…you have a different challenge:
You aren’t their superior. You aren’t better than them, you have insights and experiences to share that will help them become better versions of themselves.
You share yourself to help them find their own voice, their own best version. Its not about you. They have something very special inside that no one else has. We all do.
You’re not them…and you don’t set out to transform them into you…even when they want to! They need to find their own voice.
You don’t have to have all the answers. You need more questions.
Provoke. Give permission. It’s ok to fail.
You help them on their journey, but you ensure they understand this is their journey.
You have to nudge them in the right direction.
First and foremost, they have to take the initiative, take ownership of the process
They have to drive the car. Its their job – No one waxes a rented car
The mentor relationship works ONLY because the mentee DOES THE WORK.
Nothing starts well. We get better by doing it. You’re never “ready”, there are no guarantees. Prepared is good enough. “Its not ready” is a symptom of fear.
Fear - you are always going to feel the fear. The mistake is to run from it. Learn not to. Learn to dance with it. Replace anxiety with anticipation.
There’s a difference between Comfort Zone and Safety Zone. Auto Workers. We start before we are capable of seeing the end.
We all take that first step. But that’s not the step that matters.
Everyone joins the gym Jan 1
It's NOT that "first step". It's the last step. See it through. Be vulnerable. Be ok with Failure. Fix it and move on.