Life Coach & HighImpact Mentoring
So Exactly What Is Life Coaching? • It IS Whole-Person centered, covering both home • work challenges • Confidential to client coach • Believes client is naturally creative, • resourceful, and capable of solving own issues • with support personal action • It is NOT Therapy, Consulting, Managing, or • Policing
Why Life Coaching Important?
• Strong correlation with coaching and • Increased loyalty • Increased performance • Increased motivation • Increased life satisfaction • Increased retention
What Is Mentorship And Why Does It Matter?
mentorship is a relationship between a mentor and a mentee. A mentor is someone who has been trained to provide guidance and support to the mentee. The mentorship relationship is built on trust and openness, Which allows the mentee to express themselves and the mentor to provide guidance.
What Makes A Good Mentor?
A good mentor needs to be more than just a successful individual. A good mentor must have the disposition and desire to develop other people. It requires a willingness to reflect on and share one’s own experiences, including one’s failures.
Qualities to look for in a mentor:
• A desire to develop and help others. A good mentor is sincerely interested in helping someone else without any “official” reward • The ability and availability to commit real time and energy to the mentoring relationship. • Current and relevant industry or organizational knowledge, expertise, and/or skills.
• A willingness to share failures and personal experiences. Mentors need to share both their “how I did it right” and their “how I did it wrong” stories. • A growth mindset and learning attitude. The best teachers have always been and always will be those who remain curious learners themselves. • Skill in developing others. This includes the very real skills of: active listening, asking powerful, open-ended questions, self-reflection, providing feedback and being able to share stories that
Anthony Todd Johnson is a Master Coach/Course Director at Idyllwild Life Coach/AMI (Amare Magis Institute) offering change and restoration to men, women and children for nearly 29 years. Anthony Todd Johnson