Three Step Mentoring

We desperately need to mentor those coming along beside and behind us! I'm saying that selfishly, guys -- you and I need to mentor others, because it's the key to our own continued growth and learning. And it's God's design for training and developing others.

As I encourage men to mentor others, I find that often people get hung because they make it complicated and formal. To get you past this, I recommend this approach from Mac Lake:

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Three Easy Steps for Mentoring

EXPLORE – The first thing you want to do is get your mentee to THINK about a specific leadership skill or principle. You can do this by giving them something to read, watch, research or listen to. Give them some time to explore and think about the material you’ve given them.
EXPERIENCE – Next you want the mentee to TRY it. Just reading about a leadership principle doesn’t mean you really get it. We learn best by putting something into practice. So take one of the leadership principles they learned from their reading or listening (Explore) and give them a challenging assignment that will give them the opportunity to put that prnciple into practice.
EVALUATE – Finally you want the mentee to TALK about their experience. Once they have tried the new skill they need the opportunity to discuss how it felt, how it went, what they learned. Ask them questions like: What did you do well? What would you do differently? What kind of response did you get from others? What did you learn from the experience?

This process is so powerful because it’s more than dispensing information, it actually produces transformation.

EXPLORE + EXPERIENCE + EVALUATE = TRANSFORMATION

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Try it!