MENTORSHIP, IS IT IMPORTANT?
What does it
mean to mentor a leader?
Mentoring a leader is the art of:
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Giving her help and advice over a period of time and often
teaching her how to lead.
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Guiding her to draw a mental picture of her as a leader and
consistently helping her to see it grow to maturity.
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Consistently giving help to a leader to help her improve their
skill of leadership and grow to greater heights.
Who is a
leader?
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She is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way to a
group of people.
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She is one who guides a group of people to where they ought to be not
where they want to be.
Is it important
to mentor women leaders or any other leaders?
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Baake Delivering her message to the leaders
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According to Mc Gregory’s X theory, people
need to be guided on how to do things. Following this theory, there is need for
continuous guidance and help to be given to leaders especially the upcoming
ones which can be done through mentoring. I therefore think that it is
important for us to mentor leaders and especially when they are still young and
flexible enough to learn new things. Young people are not yet too rigid with
some bad cultural and religious
beliefs which are social
constructions. What is learnt in the
cradle lasts up to the tomb. It is
important to mentor women because of the following reasons;
