Managers Are Mentors
Are you a Manager, Executive, or Leader in your workplace? If so, Congratulations! Question: How did you get there? Did you do it alone? Or did you have some help? In all likelihood you had a Mentor, or a few Mentors, that recognized something great in you that you didn’t see in yourself. They pointed out your incredible gifts, the strengths you naturally exhibited, the flair for leadership that brings someone from the bottom rung to the top, and eventually to another ladder altogether. And now YOU are The Mentor. What is your responsibility in this position? Why were you chosen to this? In high school a teacher heard me singing in the hall. She burst through the choir room door and demanded to know why I wasn’t in the choir. “I play basketball, I’m going to be in the NBA”, I said. She looked me up and down and said, “You are a SINGER! Come into my classroom!” She made me audition for a choir spot I didn’t care to land. But in that moment of ambivalence she unleashed potential I never knew I had. Or at least I hadn’t shared
