Mentor Or Sponsor: Name The Job
Distinguish when a professional needs mentoring, sponsorship, or both.
The first skill is naming the job. When you confuse mentoring and sponsorship, you can get a warm conversation with no movement. Mentoring Builds The Person Mentoring is developmental. The mentor asks questions, offers perspective, shares experience, and helps the other person make a better choice. GROW keeps this from becoming a lecture: Goal names the desired outcome, Reality tests what is true now, Options widen the field, and Will turns insight into action. Sponsorship Moves The Opportunity Sponsorship is advocacy. A sponsor uses political capital to put a credible person into a room, role, project, or conversation. It works…
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