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The adept book

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 Right no I am working at my second edition for my first book, still in norwegian. But I hope it will be English/American within short time.

 

The book is a working book for the adept. I use the world adept, and others use protegee, mentees and maybe some other names. I use adept because it it is from the Latin language and the meaning is  a apprentice. 

 

Do you have some opinions about what is best to call the person. Please write it here at my blogg.

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Viking Weekend 2009

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 JCI Drammen are having people from all over europe coming for their annual "Viking Weekend". This year on Solli Farm in Asker, Norway.

 

I was booked for my training in "The Big Five" with persons from Polen, Latvia, Germany and Norway. I got two hours to work especially with listening, questions and feedback.

 

Even two hours are little time they got a preview of how it is to be a mentor and adept. They all get very curious about mentoring and maybe they would get their own mentor when they get home.

 

Or maybe they will try to be mentor for another person and with the knowledge from "The Big Five" you are actually able to do so. But to be a good mentor you need to practise – practise – practise…

 

Pictures are coming.

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A good mentor can make the difference in navigating your professional path

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This is so thru and what it`s all about. Taylor Lindstrom writes about how mentors can help with career development in San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfgate.com).

 

Taylor Lindstrom writes about how mentors can help with career development and Kathleen Pytleski, senior vice president of Mentium (www.menttium.com), a mentor-mentee matching company, recommends that employees find a mentor who has the skills that they may not already have. "Look for someone who has a skill set you want to develop, someone whose talents you admire. “This person’s a good leader — I want to be a good leader like that”, she says.
 

Because mentors can provide excellent counsel, companies often provide a formal way for junior employees to partner with senior-level staff. However, seeking a mentor within one’s own company has both advantages and setbacks. Read more at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/09/28/JOBSlindstrom.DTL&hw=taylor+lindstrom&sn=001&sc=1000

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Mentoring in front of us or behind us?

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Society today is rediscovering that the process of learning and maturing needs time and many kinds of relationships.

The resurgence of mentoring in almost every occupational field and area of life is a response to this discovery. "Please mentor me," is the spoken and unspoken request
expressed by so many. What do they mean? How do people get into it? …
 
Mentoring is as old as civilization itself. Through this natural relational process,
experience and values pass from one generation to another. Throughout human history, mentoring was the primary means of passing on knowledge and skills in every field in every culture. But in the modem age, the learning process shifted. It now relies primarily on computers, classrooms, books, and videos. Thus, today the relational connection between the knowledge and experience giver (mentor) and the receiver (adept) has weakened or is nonexistent.
 
They are talking more about coaching than mentoring in my country and we have a lot of certifications in coaching, but none in mentoring. Probably is it because mentoring is based on volunteering but in the future we have to get some more structure in the business. Write articles, blogs and use the media. And then we have to make some certification rules. It is a important job.
My shortest training would be a 3 hours training in “The Big Five” and even with little time to practice the tools, the participants was very happy.
So if anyone of you have some stories about mentoring you would like to share, send it to me and I will post it on my blog. Together we can make mentoring better for more people and their careers.

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