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Book Proposal

I got this email yesterday:

Hi Thor-Erik:

Thank you for sending me your email.  I am compiling articles from people for a book entitled:  Gratitude: A Key to Success and would love it if you would be able to contribute. I have been watching what you have been saying on Linked In and I am very impressed with you.

Each article will be a chapter so be sure to title it.  You have complete freedom to write what you like.  If you are able and willing, could you also include a short bio and a JPEG picture of yourself that I can include in the book.  I want to have the book fully completed and being marketed by March 31, 2011 and so I would need this from you a.s.a.p.

Please let me know if you would like to be involved.  Thanks.

 

And of course I wanted to do this article and answer the email with some more questions. I will post it on my blog and also keep you posted on the advancing 🙂

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The 21 Day Leadership Challenge

Every no and then I read up some old books, and by old I mean before year 2000. I now not everybody would agree with me but I mean that very much have change in our society the last ten years.

But never the less I find it educational to read them anyhow. So the pile before me contains seven books from the same author starting with a book from 1998.

The author is John C. Maxwell and he is an internationally recognized leadership expert, speaker, coach, and author who has sold more than 19 million books. His organizations have trained more than two million leaders worldwide. Dr. Maxwell is the founder of EQUIP and INJOY Stewardship Services.

Every year he speaks to Fortune 500 companies, international government leaders, and organizations as diverse as the United States Military Academy at West Point, the National Football League, and ambassadors at the United Nations. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, Maxwell was one of 25 authors named to Amazon.com’s 10th Anniversary Hall of Fame.

Three of his books, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Developing the Leader Within You, and The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader have each sold more than a million copies.

After reading the book and about the author I find out that it is also a 10´th anniversary edition from 2008.

So I’ve put together a 21 days leadership challenge. Starting in March the 1. and for the next 21 days, make it your mission to practice one of the laws of leadership. Someway, somehow, any way you can.

So the 1. Of March I will start this challenge.

Good luck!

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EVERYONE DESERVES A MENTOR !

«I MAY BE ONLY ONE PERSON – BUT TO ONE PERSON, I MIGHT BE THE WORLD!»

Those of us who are involved in mentoring, are so involved because we want to make a difference in other persons’ lives. Many of us became involved in mentoring because someone invested their energy, time, and caring in us. Others of us became involved because no one invested themselves in us that way, and we want to be sure that we have done what we can so that never happens for others.

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Best Mentoring Blog 2011

DO YOU HAVE SOME CANDIDATES?

I want to put mentoring even more on the agenda and how implement it to peoples personal development and also for companies development.

I have been working with mentoring for over 10 years both in Norway and outside in other countries. My experience is both from universities and companies, and in the start I had mentoring programs together with Junior Chamber International (where I am a senator, it´s to honor the achievements of an outstanding Member for my dedication and contributions to JCI) and Junior Achievement.

I am looking for the 25 best mentoring blogs for 2011. I have been reading a lot at your blog and find it to be one of the candidates for «Best Mentoring Blog 2011».

Some of the criteria are: Most useful information about mentoring, best on mentoring tools and easiest tools to implement in every days life.

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University in Stavanger

Tomorrow I am going back to the University in Stavanger and their mentor program.

I am really looking forward to see all the mentees and mentors again, and get some feedback on their road in the mentoring landscape their in.

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Ask yourself

  • Where do I want to be at the completion of my mentoring voyage?
  • What opportunities do you want a mentoring experience to give you?
  • What will be different for you then?
  • Do you really want that?
  • Will you  be ready for it?
  • What does your gut say?
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One year success plan

How are you at achieving the goals you set for yourself? Do you make significant progress? Is it more like taking one step forward and two steps back?

As you look toward 2011, what’s your plan to keep yourself  growing,
learning and achieving throughout the year?

Now is the time to incorporate a system that helps you stay focused and on course for reaching your goals. And here is how you can benefit from the legacy that legendary personal achievement expert Jim Rohn left us and have him as your mentor.

Read more or start working at http://www.jimrohn.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=1130&utm_source=seeds_2011-01-20&utm_medium=email&utm_content=oneyear2011&utm_campaign=solos

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How to make mentoring a success

Mentoring begins when a person strategically affects the professional life of someone else by fostering insight, identifying needed knowledge, and expanding the other person´s horizones.
(A Mentor´s Companion)

Guiding principles of Mentor Success.

  1. People learn best through self-discovery. Help your mentee reflect on and learn from their experiences.
  2. You cannot mentor someone unless you understand the person. What is important to your mentee? What does he/she value
  3. In mentoring, askin a question is often the answer. You don´t have to have all the answers… help your mentee find her or his own answers by asking the right questions.
  4. Most signifikant learning occurs outside our comfort zone and we allow those we are comfortable with to push us beyond our zone. Support and then challenge.
  5. Mentoring is about growth, empowering and risk taking. The goal of every mentor is to act in such a way that the mentee is better able to do for him or her self.

From Perrone-Ambrose

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The Big Five Vol. II

I am going back to JCI oslo and their mentoring program for the CEO´s  in Young Enterprice. The training will be for their mentors. I had the first training with them in October 2010 and now it´s time for some more input.

It will be real fun to hear about their experiences so far in the program.

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January is official National Mentoring Month

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 2010 as National Mentoring Month. I call upon public officials, business and community leaders, educators, and Americans across the country to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs.

Well, President Barack Obama decided this last year and I hope that he ment it to be every year, so also 2011.

SO, HAPPY MENTORING MONTH ( and thank you Mr. President Barack Obama).