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PURPOSE OF MENTORS AND LIFE COACHES

A friend reminds you how far you’ve come. A mentor’s job is to remind you of how far you have to go.

- Jay Shetty

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.

— Bob Proctor

The purpose of a mentor is to help you grow as a person and become the best version of yourself. This may involve helping you achieve your personal or career goals, introducing you to new ways of thinking, challenging your limiting assumptions, sharing valuable life lessons, and much more. A mentor is a person who can support, advise and guide you. They typically take the time to get to know you and the challenges you're facing, and then use their understanding and personal experience to help you improve. The purpose of a mentor is to help you grow as a person and become the best version of yourself. This may involve helping you achieve your personal or career goals, introducing you to new ways of thinking, challenging your limiting assumptions, sharing valuable life lessons, and much more. A mentor is a person who can support, advise and guide you. They typically take the time to get to know you and the challenges you're facing, and then use their understanding and personal experience to help you improve. The purpose of a mentor is to help you grow as a person and become the best version of yourself. This may involve helping you achieve your personal or career goals, introducing you to new ways of thinking, challenging your limiting assumptions, sharing valuable life lessons, and much more. A mentor is a person who can support, advise and guide you. They typically take the time to get to know you and the challenges you're facing, and then use their understanding and personal experience to help you improve.

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There is a no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.

-Charles Schulz-American cartoonist

The purpose of a life coach is to facilitate people to make progress in their lives by providing them with tips and techniques to gain greater fulfillment. A life coach is a wellness professional. A life coach provides a fresh, informed perspective on your daily problems. A life coach is different from other types of coaches because life coaches focus on personal growth, uplifting, and fulfillment, while the other types of coaching are mostly result-driven and do not focus on individual satisfaction.

You should consult a life coach if you’re dealing with lack of fulfillment in your life, constant feeling of dissatisfaction at work, blocked creativity, inability to break bad habits, frequent irritability, and high levels of stress or anxiety.

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MENTORSHIP / COACHING FRAMEWORK

7 ELEMENTS FOR SELF-ACTUAISATION

(1)Emotional Intelligence

(2)Mental/Intellectual Aptitude

(3) Spiritual Maturity

(4) Physical Fitness

(5) Talent and Skills Development

(6) Financial Fitness

(7) Social Skills

(8) Pace Setting

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP

(1) Public Speaking

(2) Leadership Quotient

(3) Confidence Booster

(4) Ladder Builder

(5) Nurturer

(6) Community Builder-Stakeholder Relations

(7) Legacy

(8)Pace Management

MENTORSHIP MOMENTUM CYCLE

PROTOCOLS FOR SUCCESSFUL MENTORSHIP

1. Qualities exhibited by both Protégé and Mentor must be the following:

TRUST
CONFIDENTIALITY
RESPECT
OPEN AND HONEST COMMUNICATION
UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHERS PERSPECTIVE
PERSEVERANCE

2. Mentors are to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role modeling to assist protégé with achieving self-actualization and transcendence (WIL) through assistance with SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timebound) goal settings, networking, building personal brand, and life skills orientation.

3. Success factors for mentors:

a) Good and active listening skills,

b) Availability,

c) Ability to discern and analyze protégé strengths, weakness and support to address gaps

d) Good role model, leads by example (sets and meets own personal goals)

e) Provides guidance and constructive feedback

f) Has a good reputation

g)Takes a personal interest in the relationship exhibiting enthusiasm to assist protégé with personal

developmental goals

4. Responsibility for personal development of Protégé resides with Mentor

5. Accountability for personal development of Protégé resides with Protégé. Protégé must be proactive and persist to set-up meetings, follow through, diligent and submit. “Mentors are volunteering their time and experience, and have a vested interest in their protégé’s success. Therefore, protégé’s should remember to articulate their appreciation and let their mentor know when they are doing a good job.

Remember: “Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.” ~John C. Crosby

6. Success factors for Proteges:

a) Commitment, Diligence

b) Perseverance

c) Accountability for personal development

d) Show respect, appreciation and submit to mentorship guidance and inspiration

e) Honesty and Transparency throughout mentorship programme

MONTHLY/QUARTELY PROGRESS REPORTS

Tracking Progress Talent Development

1. Monthly progress reports essential for growth track of
protégé - apply mentorship guide to track growth
2. SMART Goals with milestones must be written
3. Quarterly progress reports are applied to evaluate
milestones
4. Seek Coach support if needed
5. Group Mentorship can be arranged if 3-5 proteges
have common areas of personal development
6. Mentors to provide monthly progress report to WOAC
FRIENDS programme evaluators to measure success
rate of mentorship /coaching application

WOAC will be used as catalyst to support protégé growth momentum through:

Networking
Branding
Skills Development / training for personal development
Career connection

OUTCOME OF COACHING / MENTORSHIP

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