Power of mentorship by Sam Adeyemi
Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all
your getting, get understanding.
Wisdom is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It is the
difference between failure and success; between poverty and
prosperity; between defeat and victory; between stagnation and
promotion.
We are discussing a vital key to wisdom, MENTORING.
King Solomon in the Bible had a remarkable dream. God told
him to ask for anything he desired. Solomon asked only for
wisdom. This was God’s reply; “Because your greatest desire is to
help your people, and you haven’t asked for long life, but for
wisdom and knowledge to properly guide my people, yes, I am
giving you the wisdom and knowledge you asked for. And I am
also giving you such riches, wealth and honour as no other king
has ever had before you!”
You see, the wisest king in the Bible was also the wealthiest.
Wisdom is powerful.
You Too Can Have Access To The Wise
Now, you may not encounter God in a dream like Solomon, but
you can have access to wisdom too. One of the proverbs of King
Solomon says, “He that walks with the wise will be wise, but the
companion of fools will be destroyed.”
You too can receive wisdom through association with the wise. I
call that Mentoring. It is also known as Coaching.
Dear friend, God has positioned mentors around you to
minimize your mistakes and maximize your potential for
success. Learn from them and get ready to rise to the top.
Mentors inspire us.
Mentors enhance our speed in life.
Mentors are our gates to greatness.
We are wise when we admit that there are people who know
better than we do, and we learn from them.
Three Dimensions To Mentoring
1. Parental Mentoring
Parents have the responsibility for grooming children for future
success in their adult life. Our greatest heritage from our
parents is wisdom, and God’s grace on their lives.
2. Professional Mentoring
This is the acquisition of wisdom from teachers, employers, and
those who have excelled in our chosen line of career.
3. Pastoral Mentoring
This is the acquisition of the wisdom of God through our
spiritual leaders. Several people in the Bible prospered through
their relationships with ministers of the gospel.
Who Is Your Mentor
Now, in a mentoring relationship, the one who provides the
wisdom is known as the mentor. The one who receives is known
as the mentee or protégée.
Dear friend, who is your mentor? Archbishop Benson Idahosa
once said; “If someone has achieved ten times what you are
trying to achieve once, the person knows something you don’t
know.”
Productive and Non- Productive Protégées
Some protégées are passive. They leave all the initiative to the
mentor. They do not pursue their mentors. They do not ask
probing questions. Such protégées do not get much out of a
mentoring relationship.
Other protégées are parasites. They only want to take advantage
of the mentor. They take advantage of the mentor’s name,
influence and money. They do not want to pay the price for
developing themselves. And just in case the mentor corrects
them, they move away.
Lastly, there are protégées who are productive. They take full
advantage of the mentoring relationship and carefully apply the
wisdom that they derive from it.
Let me describe some qualities of productive protégées:
1. They invest whatever it takes to maintain contact with
their mentors.
2. They respect the advice of their mentors.
3. They freely discuss their greatest dreams with their
mentors.
4. They discuss their fears and challenges with their
mentors.
5. The sow seeds of appreciation into the lives of their
mentors.
Productive protégées publicly acknowledge and honour their
mentors. Ultimately, good protégées step into the shoes of their
mentors. They become mentors themselves.
Your mentor is your doorway to the future. God will lead you
and connect you with those who will bring out the best in you.
Your mentor is a preview of your future.
Qualities Of An Exceptional Mentor
1. A mentor invests time with the protégée. Communicating
wisdom requires time.
2. Exceptional mentors usually create exceptional protégées.
Like begets like
3. The exceptional mentor measures the passion of his
protégée by his pursuit of the mentor. The proof of desire is
pursuit. Sometimes, a protégée needs a strong desire and
perseverance to get the attention of his mentor.
4. A mentor knows precisely the path that the protégée must
tread to make it to the top. He can analyse his own success and
pass on the principles that helped him to the top. He can teach
also from his past mistakes.
5. A mentor is honest enough to correct the protégée even at
the risk of being misunderstood and alienated by the protégée.
6. A mentor can often identify weaknesses in the protégée that
has the potential to result in a pitfall.
7. A mentor exposes fraudulent people to his protégée.
Christ warned His disciples repeatedly about the Pharisees.
8. The exceptional mentor desires for his protégée to go
further than he has gone. “He who believes me, the works that I
do shall he do and greater works than these shall he do …”
9. The exceptional mentor is not threatened by the success
of his protégée. Rather, he considers it as part of his own
success.
Dear friend, ask God to direct you to mentors whose wisdom
will bring divine acceleration to your destiny. Also, remember
that success without a successor is failure. Pass on what you
know. I believe this will be the most exciting day so far.
It is good for you to have mentors in business, marriage, career,
and ministry. They will inspire, challenge and guide you. Read
their books, listen to them. Experience, they say, is the best
teacher. Yet it is better and cheaper to acquire wisdom through
the experience of others. I pray, that God will help you move
away from those who will divide and subtract from you and
bring into your life those who will multiply and add to you.
On the other hand, are you in a position to mentor others? You
see, poor protégées hardly become excellent mentors. If God
has lifted you, are you a mentor? Are you passing on your
wisdom to someone? Are you a mentor as a parent or as a
professional? Mentoring changes lives. You can multiply your
success. When you help others to rise, you will not go down
yourself.
The Power Of Mentoring
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About Sam Adeyemi: Sam Adeyemi is
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one of the country’s leading experts on
personal development and self mastery.
Thousands of lives have been transformed
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your getting, get understanding.
Wisdom is one of the most powerful forces on earth. It is the
difference between failure and success; between poverty and
prosperity; between defeat and victory; between stagnation and
promotion.
We are discussing a vital key to wisdom, MENTORING.
King Solomon in the Bible had a remarkable dream. God told
him to ask for anything he desired. Solomon asked only for
wisdom. This was God’s reply; “Because your greatest desire is to
help your people, and you haven’t asked for long life, but for
wisdom and knowledge to properly guide my people, yes, I am
giving you the wisdom and knowledge you asked for. And I am
also giving you such riches, wealth and honour as no other king
has ever had before you!”
You see, the wisest king in the Bible was also the wealthiest.
Wisdom is powerful.
You Too Can Have Access To The Wise
Now, you may not encounter God in a dream like Solomon, but
you can have access to wisdom too. One of the proverbs of King
Solomon says, “He that walks with the wise will be wise, but the
companion of fools will be destroyed.”
You too can receive wisdom through association with the wise. I
call that Mentoring. It is also known as Coaching.
Dear friend, God has positioned mentors around you to
minimize your mistakes and maximize your potential for
success. Learn from them and get ready to rise to the top.
Mentors inspire us.
Mentors enhance our speed in life.
Mentors are our gates to greatness.
We are wise when we admit that there are people who know
better than we do, and we learn from them.
Three Dimensions To Mentoring
1. Parental Mentoring
Parents have the responsibility for grooming children for future
success in their adult life. Our greatest heritage from our
parents is wisdom, and God’s grace on their lives.
2. Professional Mentoring
This is the acquisition of wisdom from teachers, employers, and
those who have excelled in our chosen line of career.
3. Pastoral Mentoring
This is the acquisition of the wisdom of God through our
spiritual leaders. Several people in the Bible prospered through
their relationships with ministers of the gospel.
Who Is Your Mentor
Now, in a mentoring relationship, the one who provides the
wisdom is known as the mentor. The one who receives is known
as the mentee or protégée.
Dear friend, who is your mentor? Archbishop Benson Idahosa
once said; “If someone has achieved ten times what you are
trying to achieve once, the person knows something you don’t
know.”
Productive and Non- Productive Protégées
Some protégées are passive. They leave all the initiative to the
mentor. They do not pursue their mentors. They do not ask
probing questions. Such protégées do not get much out of a
mentoring relationship.
Other protégées are parasites. They only want to take advantage
of the mentor. They take advantage of the mentor’s name,
influence and money. They do not want to pay the price for
developing themselves. And just in case the mentor corrects
them, they move away.
Lastly, there are protégées who are productive. They take full
advantage of the mentoring relationship and carefully apply the
wisdom that they derive from it.
Let me describe some qualities of productive protégées:
1. They invest whatever it takes to maintain contact with
their mentors.
2. They respect the advice of their mentors.
3. They freely discuss their greatest dreams with their
mentors.
4. They discuss their fears and challenges with their
mentors.
5. The sow seeds of appreciation into the lives of their
mentors.
Productive protégées publicly acknowledge and honour their
mentors. Ultimately, good protégées step into the shoes of their
mentors. They become mentors themselves.
Your mentor is your doorway to the future. God will lead you
and connect you with those who will bring out the best in you.
Your mentor is a preview of your future.
Qualities Of An Exceptional Mentor
1. A mentor invests time with the protégée. Communicating
wisdom requires time.
2. Exceptional mentors usually create exceptional protégées.
Like begets like
3. The exceptional mentor measures the passion of his
protégée by his pursuit of the mentor. The proof of desire is
pursuit. Sometimes, a protégée needs a strong desire and
perseverance to get the attention of his mentor.
4. A mentor knows precisely the path that the protégée must
tread to make it to the top. He can analyse his own success and
pass on the principles that helped him to the top. He can teach
also from his past mistakes.
5. A mentor is honest enough to correct the protégée even at
the risk of being misunderstood and alienated by the protégée.
6. A mentor can often identify weaknesses in the protégée that
has the potential to result in a pitfall.
7. A mentor exposes fraudulent people to his protégée.
Christ warned His disciples repeatedly about the Pharisees.
8. The exceptional mentor desires for his protégée to go
further than he has gone. “He who believes me, the works that I
do shall he do and greater works than these shall he do …”
9. The exceptional mentor is not threatened by the success
of his protégée. Rather, he considers it as part of his own
success.
Dear friend, ask God to direct you to mentors whose wisdom
will bring divine acceleration to your destiny. Also, remember
that success without a successor is failure. Pass on what you
know. I believe this will be the most exciting day so far.
It is good for you to have mentors in business, marriage, career,
and ministry. They will inspire, challenge and guide you. Read
their books, listen to them. Experience, they say, is the best
teacher. Yet it is better and cheaper to acquire wisdom through
the experience of others. I pray, that God will help you move
away from those who will divide and subtract from you and
bring into your life those who will multiply and add to you.
On the other hand, are you in a position to mentor others? You
see, poor protégées hardly become excellent mentors. If God
has lifted you, are you a mentor? Are you passing on your
wisdom to someone? Are you a mentor as a parent or as a
professional? Mentoring changes lives. You can multiply your
success. When you help others to rise, you will not go down
yourself.
The Power Of Mentoring
DECEMBER 12, 2012 IN SUCCESS WITH 341 COMMENTS
About Sam Adeyemi: Sam Adeyemi is
unarguably Nigeria’s No 1 success coach and
one of the country’s leading experts on
personal development and self mastery.
Thousands of lives have been transformed
through his inside-out coaching programme.
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