Mowgli Mentors are required to possess high levels of competence in Leadership Skills. These are honed and developed throughout the mentoring experience.
Why is leadership such an important concept for Mowgli?
Leadership, a critical management skill, can be defined as the ability to motivate a group of people toward a common goal; helping others to learn and achieve their goals; and supporting others to become the best that they can.
Mentoring is often an instinctive activity of natural leaders, and can be a path for others to achieve leadership qualities. In fact, many of our mentee entrepreneurs, inspired by their mentors, go on to mentor others.
The links below contain tools to help Mowgli Mentors understand the core qualities of true leaders, and encourage them to dig deeper into their own personal and professional leadership qualities.
- Communication: Conversations for Action and how to use it; other resources
- Deep Listening: Scharmers Theory U; Mindfulness Training; Mindful Physical Training
- Self-Awareness: Assessing your skills and traits; various personality tests and resources
- Understanding Motivation: The reason and engine behind action. Csikszentmihalyi, Maslow’s theory of motivation, altruism, internal and external motivation, and ‘Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose.’
- Understanding Life Journeys: The ‘Hero’s Journey’.
- Cross Cultural Similarities and Differences: Understanding how mentoring works across races, religions, genders, and different socio-economic backgrounds is key to the Mowgli Experience. This section contains resources to help mentors understand communications issues and other dimensions of difference
“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. After you become a leader, success is about growing others.” -Jack Welch, CEO, General Electric
“Great leaders are not usually bestowed with their gifts. They are developed. At the core of their development tends to be their having great mentors and great teachers around them at critical times.”- Tony Bury: Founder, Mowgli Foundation
Additional Mowgli Resources:
The following resources can be found in our blog and will help to have a better understanding of bigger picture of mentoring, especially within the Mowgli context.
- Where does the word mentor come from?
- What is mentoring?
- What is business mentoring?
- Does business mentoring differ from other forms of mentoring?
- What’s in a mentor?
- The life span of a mentor
- Measuring the effectiveness of mentoring
- The 5 M’s of mentoring
- 5 M’s of mentoring – what motivates people to do things
- 5 M’s of mentoring – developing/finding meaning
- 5 M’s of mentoring – models of mentoring
- Models of mentoring – the one to one mentoring relationship
- Models of mentoring – exploring the concept of co-mentoring
- 5 M’s of mentoring – memes, what they are and why they are important to mentors and entrepreneurs
- 5 M’s of mentoring – the mentoring mindset, what it is and how to change it
- 5 M’s of mentoring – an overview presentation
- What are the roles of a mentor?
- The role of the mentor as a friend
- The role of the mentor as advisor
- The role of the mentor as a leader
- The role of the mentor as role model
- The role of the mentor as a coach
- The role of the mentor as counsellor
- Baloo and the Bare Necessities of the mentor as a guide
- The many roles of the mentor – presentation
