Wondering About Whether you Could be a Mentor?
Take a few minutes to answer the following questions. If you answer "YES" to more than one of these questions, you have what it takes to become a mentor.
- Do you know what it's like to have worries, frustrations and concerns about your work?
- Do people seek you out to talk about their worries, frustrations, and concerns?
- Is the amount of time you spend listening at least four times what you spend talking?
- Has anyone in your life helped you uncover an aspect, ability or talent of yours that,
until then, had lain dormant and unrecognised?
- Has anyone provided you with a quote that had great meaning for you, that influenced
your thinking or behaviour, and that you sometimes pass on to others?
- Has anyone provided you with an "aha!" experience that enabled you to pierce
the core of meaning of some event, in someone, in something, or in yourself?
- Has anyone helped you gain knowledge about how things work? About how to get things
done?
- Has anyone encouraged you to find a way to deal with challenges in your life or work?
- Has there ever been anyone in your life who had a profound positive effect on you, but
you didn't realise it until much later in your life?
- Has someone in your life provided just the right help to you at just the right time
- Has anyone in your life helped you to grow and deepen your character, moral or ethical
integrity or gain a stronger commitment to your values?
- Has anyone inspired you to shift the direction of your life in a constructive way?
- Have you ever reached out to another person who was deeply in need and what you provided
appeared to make a beneficial difference to that person?
- Do other people reach out to you to assist them with important life or career decisions?
- Have you ever had an experience where something that you observed, read, or experienced
had a profound effect on your strengths and abilities?
Adapted with permission of the publisher, Peer Resources,
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