The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable: be honest and frank anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 We all have a face we wear in public. Some philosophers and psychologists refer to this as an act or a façade because it’s meant to show people what […]

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 10: June 2008 Comments Off on The Fifth Paradoxical Commandment

The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 This isn’t really a revolutionary concept. In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Marc Antony delivers the line in one of the most-memorized speeches in the English language: “The evil that […]

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 9: May 2008 Comments Off on The Fourth Paradoxical Commandment

The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 I didn’t see this extreme response to success while I was a business co-owner. That might be because our level of financial success was a steady, comfortable […]

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The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 Maybe it’s skepticism borne through experience that causes many employees to doubt their employer ever acts out of consideration or kindness. Maybe it’s a sign […]

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The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. © Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001 Words like these sound wonderful in an inspirational speech or a sermon. I close my eyes and smile and think, “What a wonderful world.” Then reality walks in wearing flesh and […]

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 5: February 2008 Comments Off on The First Paradoxical Commandment

The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups Around the spring of 1993 I started having two careers. I maintained a part-time therapy practice, and I became co-owner of a child development center with my mother. My responsibilities early on were training and supervising staff specifically on ways to work well with children. Over time I […]

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 4: January 2008 Comments Off on The Paradoxical Commandments

The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups There is a risk involved in helping your team members grow and develop. They can grow beyond their position. They can grow beyond your business or organization. I experienced this personally as co-owner of a child development center.

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 3: December 2007, Zines in 2007 Comments Off on Harness The Power Of Growth

The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups Getting your team on board with a new program or project can be a challenge. When it comes to motivation, there isn’t one answer. What works best for you, or even for most people, won’t work for everyone. Get familiar with your team members and the things that […]

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 2: November 2007, Zines in 2007 Comments Off on What Motivates Your Team Members?

The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups What makes a community? This is the question my friend Sarah Sharp used to begin a telecourse called Cultivating Community we co-presented at the beginning of the month.

Posted in The Mentorship Approach With Teams & Groups, Zine 1: October 2007, Zines in 2007 Comments Off on Cultivating Community