How to Mentor, Motivate & Advance Your People

Values-Based Mentoring

Presented by Rick Griggs

Griggs Achievement Training & Retreats October 3, 2020

Turning Leadership Tools Into Habits

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How to Mentor, Motivate & Advance Your People

Values-Based Mentoring October 3, 2020

Presented by

Rick Griggs Griggs Achievement Training & Retreats

Fort Collins, Colorado

Welcome

Successful mentoring comes from a superior, an internal veteran or an external expert. This powerful session pulls from several Griggs courses and offers skills to motivate and advance employees for success in the organization AND in their broader careers. Attendees will learn to set parameters from the mission and vision of the organization while offering mentees personal, business and career skills.

Here’s to a great session!

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Mission & Vision Here we go again. You’ve heard about the importance of the mission and vision of the organization for years. My advice is to merge the mission and vision into one simple concept. Decide the major purpose of the organization and then call it what you want.

Mission + Vision = Purpose

Baseball team: _________________________________________

College/University: _________________________________________

Political party: _________________________________________

Criminal enterprise: _________________________________________

Writer: _________________________________________

Animal Hospital: _________________________________________

2-person practice: _________________________________________

Pharmacy: _________________________________________

RICK GRIGGS, creator of the Rolestorming creativity tool, has degrees in psychology, business and French. His 10 month Life Mastery Academy helps leaders and innovators jump-start their humanity with leadership skills, business reading and life balance. After management positions at National Semiconductor and Intel, he founded Griggs Achievement Training & Retreats. His 7th book, Triumph in Teams, won a 1st place book award. Rick is the author of the life poem Samsara. His mastery circle of life priorities includes piano, French, bicycling, books and koi ponds.

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Preparing Yourself to Mentor Here are ways to prepare yourself to mentor a person within a specific organization. This assumes that you (the mentor) have a vested interest in the health and success of the group. This may be from the inside or as an engaged external consultant.

1. Re-examine your personal successes and professional milestones.

2. Read at least a book a month (to the very last page).

3. Clarify the current goal or purpose of the organization.

4. Set up a notebook system for recording and reviewing progress.

5. Review and study the values (implicit or explicit) of the team.

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Starting the Mentoring Sessions Mentoring succeeds more often when both individuals want to be in the process and want it to produce results. Every mentor wants to work with someone who jumps at the chance to be involved, initiates activities and participates in lively conversations. This phase should start with written aims and objectives for the process.

1. Set a standard day and time with contingencies.

2. Discuss the required or expected amount of confidentiality.

3. Clarify and record what the mentee would like to accomplish.

4. Discuss and agree on the types and amount of reading and ‘homework.’

5. During early sessions begin a discussion around the values of the organization.

A Case Study in Values- separate handout

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Readjusting Mentoring Sessions Something will change and require your sessions to adapt. Mentoring relationships that fail to adapt will end. It may be that the community at large experiences an upheaval (pandemic) or the practice makes major changes (new hiring; restructuring). Sometimes the mentee changes positions or gets promoted.

1. Review or edit the original goals of the mentee.

2. Re-direct analysis and advice when the organization changes direction.

3. Allow mentee to adjust and recover from major changes and transitions.

4. Take a session to discuss the mentee’s recent successes and achievements.

5. Take time off until the mentee initiates the will and desire to continue.

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When to End Mentoring A useful format is to consider ‘fading’ sessions than outright ending them. Unfortunately, many fruitful relationships between mentor and mentee end due to an unorganized routine without specific and regular scheduled sessions. This can work but employees at the beginning and in the middle of their careers benefit most with regular sessions. When it’s time to end make it gradual rather than abrupt.

1. If possible, set an ending time months in advance.

2. Suggest books (and articles) for reading months out into the future.

3. Revisit successes and progress multiple times.

4. Have the mentee list remaining weak areas and continued need for improvement.

5. Pick a specific week or day for a short check-in.

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Resources Books: How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie The Handbook of Mentoring at Work, Belle Ragins, Kathy Kram The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg The Millionaire Next Door, Thomas Staley, William Danko 50 Psychology Classics, Tom Butler-Bowdon Triumph in Teams, Rick Griggs Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide, David Walton Crucial Conversations, Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, Richard Carlson Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

Articles & Links:

Mentoring in Veterinary Medicine: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Mentoring+in+veterinary+medicine&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Mentoring Software: https://www.capterra.com/sem-compare/mentoring-software?gclid=CjwKCAjw2dD7BRASEiwAWCtCb4Frx39ti5pac_obay7D5rspGuYF6XzIhgrUdOcbO1c-cPxJOfqbqBoCZNIQAvD_BwE

Methodological Challenges in Mentoring Research: https://www.evidencebasedmentoring.org/five-common-methodological-challenges-in-mentoring-research-and-how-to-address-them/

Why Mentors Matter, 30 Years of Research: https://www.sap.com/insights/hr/why-mentors-matter.html

Being a Good Mentor, Ellen Ensher: https://ellenensher.com/online-courses-2/?gclid=CjwKCAjw2dD7BRASEiwAWCtCb9h23K8vev-3jHKxSL6xTncOUhr2MnePXIhvoWOO2gg6tV1R-kcs-RoCauwQAvD_BwE

McClelland Theory of Motivation: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=mcclelland+theory+of+motivation&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Herzberg Theory of Motivation: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.388.1166&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Griggs Achievement Course Index BALANCED MASTERY™ IN WORK & IN LIFE (“Flagship” Course)

“Are You Obsessed, Possessed or ‘Blessed’ in Your Achievement?”

LEADERSHIP SKILLS, CASES & SECRETS Advanced Tools & Experiences for Managers and Team Leaders

HIGH INNOVATION TEAMS NEW Team Tools for Communication, Risk Taking, and Synergy

COMMUNICATION & INTERPERSONAL SKILLS Essentials for Reducing Conflict and Growing as a Team

ASSERTIVENESS SKILLS Avoiding Passive & Aggressive Behavior with True Assertiveness

QUID NOVI (What’s New) INNOVATION STRATEGY NEW Mastering Blue Ocean Value for Yourself & Your Customers

ADVANCED PRESENTATION & FACILITATION SKILLS How to Lead the Team and Excel in Public Speaking

DEVELOPING & RETAINING KEY EMPLOYEES Being the Organization of Choice

VISION & CUSTOMER SATISFACTION Attitudes and Practices that Thrill Customers

STRESS & DIFFICULT SITUATIONS Handle Stress While Resolving Chaos & Conflict

MANAGING CHANGE & LIFE PRIORITIES Handling Change, Time and Career Priorities

NEGOTIATION, CHARACTER & ETHICS Tact & Diplomacy for Career & Corporate Solutions

CONFIDENCE & CHARISMA IN LEADERSHIP Superb Leadership with Courage, Style & Forceful Impact

THE ENTREPRENEUR MIND Risk Reduction and the Courage to Start New Ventures

MONEY & THE BUSINESS OF LIFE A Broad Overview of Financial Theory & Practice

ROLESTORMING™ FOR CREATIVITY & PROBLEM-SOLVING NEW Brainstorming is Dead…Try Rolestorming

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