Mentor encompasses not only something you do but also who you are. Every successful person has a mentor. Having a mentor does not necessarily mean sitting down with someone face to face, even though such contact proves very valuable. Your mentor may or may not even be aware of your relationship with them. Jim Rohn has served as my mentor for many years. I listen to his audio programs, read his books and attend his live performances. He travels with me in my car, inspires me while I do my daily exercise and even provides my bedtime story. Jim Rohn served as my inspiration and mentor without him even being aware of his impact on my life.
A mentor can be through books or audio as Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins and Dr Wayne Dyer are to me. Mentors can provide live interaction as my Toastmasters speech coaches do for me. Attending live seminars such as those presented by Dan Kennedy ( GKIC NoBS Colorado) or Jeff Combs (More Heart Than Talent) are extremely valuable. Your mentor may have lived in a prior period of time such as Napoleon Hill or Wallace Wattles. They still provide extremely valuable mentoring.
A mentor provides guidance, experience and wisdom. The top three percent of leaders possess three basic strengths.
The strength of leadership
The strength of self mastery
The strength of relationship
The strength of relationship directly relates to mentoring. Just as every successful person has at least one mentor, they also have the responsibility of mentoring their followers. One of the requirements of being accepted into my team is the agreement to assist newer members. Once a team member consistently earns over ten thousand dollars per month they must begin mentoring the newer team members to assist them in reaching that income goal. Passing along wisdom and shortening the learning curve establishes and promotes leadership skills.
Darin Hardy, publisher of Success magazine, visited his father’s mentor Mr. Abe. The elderly gentleman, Mr. Abe, was one of nine children born into abject poverty. He had worked very hard and amassed an incredible fortune; his financial statement served as his success scorecard. On this last day before he passed away, he spoke with Darin and Darin’s father about the many triumphs of his life. As Darin was leaving, Mr. Abe called him back into the room and grasped Darin’s arm. With a stern look on his face, Mr. Abe exclaimed to Darin, “Don’t miss the point like I did. I finally realize the most important thing in life is relationships. The most important things in life can never be recorded on a balance sheet. Don’t miss the point like I did.”
Mentorship and relationship travel hand in hand. The true value in life flows through accumulating wisdom and knowledge and then imparting that wisdom and knowledge to others. None of us are an island and none of us have either the time or the necessity to reinvent the wheel. We each learn for each other.
Select your mentors carefully. They will be shaping not only your life but the lives of those you mentor. The old saying “Birds of a feather flock together” depicts the fact that you will become similar to the people you have chosen to mentor you. We watch carefully the playmates of our children because we know the characteristics of their friends will influence them. How careful are you about the people with whom you choose to associate? Like it or not, they are influencing you and thereby mentoring you.
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Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leadership. Show all posts
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Effective Leadership Skills
Examine the root word “Lead” carefully.
L – Learning all the information possible from great books, live seminars, cd recordings and personal interaction with other positive attitude, forward-thinking successful people.
E – Examine your own internal thoughts, beliefs, words and actions. Are you allowing old negative programming to hold you back from achieving all of your dreams and goals?
A – Achieve all of your goals by focusing your energy on the target. When you focus on a goal and direct all of your activity toward that one specific objective for as long as it takes to accomplish it, your success is guaranteed.
D – Delegate just enough responsibility to your team members or followers to develop their potential to achieve their own goals and lead others.
When you learn, do a comprehensive internal self-examination, and focus on achieving all of your own goals, you now have a path in place to guide others to duplicate you’re achievements. You can not guide someone else to accomplish things you have not achieved. There is as lack of credibility when you tell others how to do something you have never done. There is never a long line to ask the advice of the person at the bottom of the success ladder.
First achieve the goals and then provide the system for others to duplicate your results. The old saying of “fake it until you make it” just does not have credibility. So you ask, what to do until you do have proven results of your own. Edify your boss or your supervisor or your coach and mentor. Point to their success until you have success of your own. Always, always be honest. Do not claim to have positive results until you do.
Learn to celebrate every little victory. Record each small victory in a journal and celebrate each one. These small accomplishments will grow into bigger achievements. Your experience learning and growing will actually assist you in effective leadership. People relate to you and your challenges as they progress through their own challenges.
Being honest about your leadership journey also adds to your credibility. None of us started at the top. Read our stories; we faced challenges and setbacks as well as victories on our way to personal leadership.
I do not believe there is or ever has been one effective leader who has not “paid his or her dues.” Every one of us has examined ourselves and our leadership thoughts many times. We examined and re-examined our leadership styles. We evaluated our personal leadership and our leadership skills over and over. We made adjustments and adjusted the adjustments.
Only after walking the path ourselves were we able to direct someone else through the same system to reach their own personal success. First we made the journey through the success minefield, then we were qualified to guide others through that minefield to their own personal success.
Even now, after they have achieved their goals, effective leadership demands a constant process of adjusting to modern innovations. Business, success nor leadership stands still. Each one remains a moving target. In order to effectively delegate these skills and techniques, we must continue to focus and keep our own leadership skills sharp.
Learn, examine, achieve and delegate. You must follow each and every step in order and then keep repeating the cycle. Leadership is constantly evolving and the best and more effective leaders never take themselves or their followers for granted. Effective leadership skills are a precious commodity. Delegate them to others and the world will constantly improve. Effective leadership is a privilege, an honor and a responsibility.
I take my leadership, coaching and mentoring seriously. Come visit me at Elaine4Success.com. Let me help you navigate the minefield of success and leadership.
L – Learning all the information possible from great books, live seminars, cd recordings and personal interaction with other positive attitude, forward-thinking successful people.
E – Examine your own internal thoughts, beliefs, words and actions. Are you allowing old negative programming to hold you back from achieving all of your dreams and goals?
A – Achieve all of your goals by focusing your energy on the target. When you focus on a goal and direct all of your activity toward that one specific objective for as long as it takes to accomplish it, your success is guaranteed.
D – Delegate just enough responsibility to your team members or followers to develop their potential to achieve their own goals and lead others.
When you learn, do a comprehensive internal self-examination, and focus on achieving all of your own goals, you now have a path in place to guide others to duplicate you’re achievements. You can not guide someone else to accomplish things you have not achieved. There is as lack of credibility when you tell others how to do something you have never done. There is never a long line to ask the advice of the person at the bottom of the success ladder.
First achieve the goals and then provide the system for others to duplicate your results. The old saying of “fake it until you make it” just does not have credibility. So you ask, what to do until you do have proven results of your own. Edify your boss or your supervisor or your coach and mentor. Point to their success until you have success of your own. Always, always be honest. Do not claim to have positive results until you do.
Learn to celebrate every little victory. Record each small victory in a journal and celebrate each one. These small accomplishments will grow into bigger achievements. Your experience learning and growing will actually assist you in effective leadership. People relate to you and your challenges as they progress through their own challenges.
Being honest about your leadership journey also adds to your credibility. None of us started at the top. Read our stories; we faced challenges and setbacks as well as victories on our way to personal leadership.
I do not believe there is or ever has been one effective leader who has not “paid his or her dues.” Every one of us has examined ourselves and our leadership thoughts many times. We examined and re-examined our leadership styles. We evaluated our personal leadership and our leadership skills over and over. We made adjustments and adjusted the adjustments.
Only after walking the path ourselves were we able to direct someone else through the same system to reach their own personal success. First we made the journey through the success minefield, then we were qualified to guide others through that minefield to their own personal success.
Even now, after they have achieved their goals, effective leadership demands a constant process of adjusting to modern innovations. Business, success nor leadership stands still. Each one remains a moving target. In order to effectively delegate these skills and techniques, we must continue to focus and keep our own leadership skills sharp.
Learn, examine, achieve and delegate. You must follow each and every step in order and then keep repeating the cycle. Leadership is constantly evolving and the best and more effective leaders never take themselves or their followers for granted. Effective leadership skills are a precious commodity. Delegate them to others and the world will constantly improve. Effective leadership is a privilege, an honor and a responsibility.
I take my leadership, coaching and mentoring seriously. Come visit me at Elaine4Success.com. Let me help you navigate the minefield of success and leadership.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The GO Factor
Today’s Cup of Leadership is the GO Factor.
In order to go to the top of the leadership ladder, you must have help. No one gets to the top alone. There are always people helping anyone who gets to the top of the success ladder. There are those who climb to the top on the backs of other people. The most successful people are those who work with others and go to the top together.
The progression of a truly successful leader goes through the following sequence.
1. It is lonely at the top
2. Come up to the top and join me
3. Lets go to the top together
4. Its not lonely at the top
When a leader matures in this fashion there is more of a cooperation and service to others attitude. Only the insecure leader will make it to the top and push others down in order to stay up there alone. True leaders help others get to the top of the success ladder. Leadership which focuses on serving others and improving their lives will always gain more because they give more. Being a servant leader has been taught for hundreds of years, but it is all too frequently lost in the modern competitive society. The principle is still sound but it does not receive as much attention as it deserves.
Our modern corporate culture all too frequently promotes the idea that if someone gains then someone else loses. A culture which functions on the principle that together we accomplish so much more than any one of us does alone, will always be superior to a competitive culture. There can not be genuine caring and teamwork in a competitive culture.
In order to GO to the top and stay there with peace in your soul, work alongside others who have the same goal and mindset for service to others.
The GO Factor also functions on the fact that a leader must GET UP and take action in order to reach the top of the success ladder. No one gets there without effort. It takes positive thoughts followed by positive goal-oriented action to reach the top. Thoughts alone will not do it. Enthusiasm alone will not do it. Focused and consistent action is an absolute necessity.
The next element of the GO Factor is that a leader must GIVE UP to GO up. There are sacrifices to be made in the journey to the top of the success ladder. Regardless of whether you have a home based business or a job or a traditional brick and mortar business, there will be sacrifices. You can not take off to play every day and still achieve all of your business objectives. It is like losing weight. You can not eat chocolate cake and ice cream every meal and expect to lose weight. You make a choice. Achieving a goal does require choices and sacrifice.
The third element of the GO Factor states that you must GROW UP to GO UP. It requires maturity and personal growth. Jim Rohn says that in order to earn more, you must become more. Filling your mind with inspirational, educational information will assist you in GROWING UP. Increasing your value to society will assist your climb to the top of the success ladder.
To GO UP to the top of the success ladder, you must GET UP, GIVE UP and GROW UP.
In order to go to the top of the leadership ladder, you must have help. No one gets to the top alone. There are always people helping anyone who gets to the top of the success ladder. There are those who climb to the top on the backs of other people. The most successful people are those who work with others and go to the top together.
The progression of a truly successful leader goes through the following sequence.
1. It is lonely at the top
2. Come up to the top and join me
3. Lets go to the top together
4. Its not lonely at the top
When a leader matures in this fashion there is more of a cooperation and service to others attitude. Only the insecure leader will make it to the top and push others down in order to stay up there alone. True leaders help others get to the top of the success ladder. Leadership which focuses on serving others and improving their lives will always gain more because they give more. Being a servant leader has been taught for hundreds of years, but it is all too frequently lost in the modern competitive society. The principle is still sound but it does not receive as much attention as it deserves.
Our modern corporate culture all too frequently promotes the idea that if someone gains then someone else loses. A culture which functions on the principle that together we accomplish so much more than any one of us does alone, will always be superior to a competitive culture. There can not be genuine caring and teamwork in a competitive culture.
In order to GO to the top and stay there with peace in your soul, work alongside others who have the same goal and mindset for service to others.
The GO Factor also functions on the fact that a leader must GET UP and take action in order to reach the top of the success ladder. No one gets there without effort. It takes positive thoughts followed by positive goal-oriented action to reach the top. Thoughts alone will not do it. Enthusiasm alone will not do it. Focused and consistent action is an absolute necessity.
The next element of the GO Factor is that a leader must GIVE UP to GO up. There are sacrifices to be made in the journey to the top of the success ladder. Regardless of whether you have a home based business or a job or a traditional brick and mortar business, there will be sacrifices. You can not take off to play every day and still achieve all of your business objectives. It is like losing weight. You can not eat chocolate cake and ice cream every meal and expect to lose weight. You make a choice. Achieving a goal does require choices and sacrifice.
The third element of the GO Factor states that you must GROW UP to GO UP. It requires maturity and personal growth. Jim Rohn says that in order to earn more, you must become more. Filling your mind with inspirational, educational information will assist you in GROWING UP. Increasing your value to society will assist your climb to the top of the success ladder.
To GO UP to the top of the success ladder, you must GET UP, GIVE UP and GROW UP.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Razor Thin Line
The difference between the results of the mediocre and the extremely successful is such a fine line. So much depends on receiving the right information at the right time and taking massive action.
We know that the right information is available to everyone in WMI and CCP. We also know you are receiving it at exactly the right time. Regardless of the business or job you currently hold, the crucial question is "What action are you taking? Are you playing the game? Even more important, Are you playing the game to win?
In my role as coach, mentor, sponsor and leader, the question is exactly how much support to provide. We have tremendous training, resources, and examples in the back office combined with extensive live support. I personally hold an additional live question and answer webinar every week.
In the past and currently, I wonder if I have unintentionally handicapped some of you by providing too much support. If I do too much of it for you, then you do not learn to be self-reliant and learn how to do it for yourselves. If I provide too little support then people feel overwhelmed, frustrated and lost. This is not only a fine line but it differs from person to person.
My goal is always to work with each person from their individual starting point. Your first two weeks in any new business will require more mentoring time. That is a basic fact which flows across all business, including new jobs. If you are taking the action, placing yourself into the training with focus. and receiving the information with an open mind, you will succeed.
Having your own business or even a job requires you to focus, learn and take action if you choose to prosper. The bottom line of everything is "You are responsible for your results." Now if that sounds harsh, maybe you will look deep in yourself and find out why that seems harsh. Every time I have taken less than full responsibility for all of my actions and results, my results have suffered.
I am here to coach, mentor, support, encourage and provide leadership. You are still doing the work on yourself and for yourself to insure your success.
I'll walk the razor thin line but you must walk it beside me if success is important to you.
Every struggle and learning curve helps you grow and take your life either up or down. It is your choice which direction you choose to go.
We know that the right information is available to everyone in WMI and CCP. We also know you are receiving it at exactly the right time. Regardless of the business or job you currently hold, the crucial question is "What action are you taking? Are you playing the game? Even more important, Are you playing the game to win?
In my role as coach, mentor, sponsor and leader, the question is exactly how much support to provide. We have tremendous training, resources, and examples in the back office combined with extensive live support. I personally hold an additional live question and answer webinar every week.
In the past and currently, I wonder if I have unintentionally handicapped some of you by providing too much support. If I do too much of it for you, then you do not learn to be self-reliant and learn how to do it for yourselves. If I provide too little support then people feel overwhelmed, frustrated and lost. This is not only a fine line but it differs from person to person.
My goal is always to work with each person from their individual starting point. Your first two weeks in any new business will require more mentoring time. That is a basic fact which flows across all business, including new jobs. If you are taking the action, placing yourself into the training with focus. and receiving the information with an open mind, you will succeed.
Having your own business or even a job requires you to focus, learn and take action if you choose to prosper. The bottom line of everything is "You are responsible for your results." Now if that sounds harsh, maybe you will look deep in yourself and find out why that seems harsh. Every time I have taken less than full responsibility for all of my actions and results, my results have suffered.
I am here to coach, mentor, support, encourage and provide leadership. You are still doing the work on yourself and for yourself to insure your success.
I'll walk the razor thin line but you must walk it beside me if success is important to you.
Every struggle and learning curve helps you grow and take your life either up or down. It is your choice which direction you choose to go.
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