What motivated you to become a mentor?
Being a professional mentor is a difficult and demanding task: time, energy, giving of yourself and working on yourself. The reward, in […]
Anyone can become a mentor, but…
You ask: “Who can be a mentor?” My answer is: “Everyone, but not everyone will be comfortable in this role.” And this […]
How to advise and not give advice?
Wondering how to teach mentee creative self-reflection and build their own solutions? Very important in being a mentor is sensing the difference […]
Intuition in mentoring? Don’t be led up a blind alley
Asking for the opinion of others, you may encounter the statement that being a mentor is a cinch, a piece of cake, […]
Striving for perfection, or how (not) to be the perfect mentor
How much do you feel the need for personal development? Do you feel that you are fulfilling your role perfectly, but are […]
How do you grow as a mentor?
It is not enough to be a mentor. In order to succeed in this role – as in any other – it […]
Those who didn’t attend should regret it – Leadership Trends Summit
On April 18, the first Leadership Trends Summit took place in a hybrid format: stationary – in the Warsaw office of the […]
How not to make a mistake when deciding to participate in a mentoring program
Your company is launching a mentoring program, or perhaps you have an offer to participate in such a project outside your organization? […]
What does a good mentoring conversation consist of and look like?
If you want to conduct professional mentoring, it is essential to master a conversation technique called catalyzing. It involves asking questions, listening […]
What steps are worth taking to make the company’s mentoring program a success?
What steps are worth taking to make the company’s mentoring program a success? Thinking about organizing a mentoring program at your company? […]
How do you know a good mentor?
Did you know that the function of a mentor was already known in ancient times? According to legend, when Odysseus was going […]
A good mentor, that is.
Who is good “material” for a mentor? First of all, it is a person who has experience, wants to share it and […]
Why do people confuse mentoring with coaching?
Working with both mentors and mentees, one may encounter comparisons of mentoring to other methods of development work, and even sometimes interchangeably. […]
When is the best time to become a mentor?
When did the thought of becoming a mentor or mentee first occur to you? Was it linked to a specific event in […]
Is being a mentor for everyone?
In your daily work, do you support others with your experience, knowledge gained over the years and practical tips? Do you do […]
About the “Big Five,” or when does mentoring work?
Mentoring is one of the most effective development tools. But what elements must be met for it to actually work? According to […]
Avant-garde in mentoring, or the innovative Wo-mentoring Future UP program
Recent years have been experiencing us as humanity quite a bit. Rapidly changing realities, pandemic, war – all of these make our […]
People in change
While I love having a lot of time to prepare, there are times when we decide to participate in a project where […]
What kind of leader should I be now?
Empathy To such a question, managers now answer most often: empathetic. Complementing this with a term attentive to emotions. During the opening […]
Developing by asking
While conducting Action Reflection Learning sessions for managers recently, I was reminded of such a thought that “the hardest part is moving […]
Go to Action (Reflection Learning)!
Time is becoming more valuable, so organizations and leaders are looking for ways to learn and grow faster and more practical. One […]
How do we live in a world we don’t understand?
This is the subtitle of the book “Antiquity” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of the bestselling “Black Swan,” in which the author […]
Appreciation
Whatever leadership training or other mentoring or coaching project we do with Kingmakers we always include appreciation. The theme is so universal […]
Measure the change
It’s obvious that we’re having an accelerated change due to the pandemic, but I didn’t think so. The Barrett Values Center (BVC), […]
Internal forces
Have you ever seen a sumo fight? I think at the present time most of us are fighting such a battle. Changes, […]
Take care of your energy
This month on coaching duty I had the opportunity to meet a dozen different people for one-hour one-off sessions. An amazing experience […]
NVC for business
Every client is unique, but sometimes we get clients who are completely unusual, such as those who “order” NVC for business. To […]
Resilience
How is it that in a similar situation, some people handle challenges, stress and pressure brilliantly, for example, and others do not? […]
