Tag: Management Excellence

The Power Of True Mentorship

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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To mentor another human being is to serve humanity. If you want to change the world, be a true mentor.

According to Dina and David McCormick, ‘A true mentor can unlock a person’s capacity to be their best self.’

‘A mentor who cares about the whole person will tap into the mentee’s deeper needs and values.’

‘Transformative mentoring is different from coaching, where the main goal is to improve conditioning, awareness, or performance.’

‘With transformative mentoring, the relationship is established with larger goals in mind.’

‘As a transformative mentor spends time with a mentee, instincts, performance, and character are shaped and enlarged.’

‘Trustworthy mentors encourage and empower the mentee to be vulnerable and honest with them- to bear their deepest concerns and aspirations in the knowledge that their mentor will respect their confidences and is committed to their well-being.’

‘Transformative mentors produce leaders who are not concerned solely with their own interests, but about our country as a whole.’

‘To serve is to lead with duty, honor, strength, and humility.’

‘An effective transformative mentor helps guide a mentee’s life and shapes that persons worldview.’

‘Transformative mentoring instills values that equip the mentee to be a wiser, more trustworthy leader who achieves positive change wherever that person goes.’

Source:

Dina Powell McCormick and David McCormick (2025). Who Believed in You? : How Purposeful Mentoring Changes the World

The Impact Of Great Leadership In The Workplace

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Leadership is not about what you know. It is not about what you can do for yourself. It is not about your title. It is not about who you know.

Leadership, real leadership, is about how you make other people feel. It is about how you treat other people. It is about what you do for others, not about what you do for yourself.

The question is, according to Tim Irwin, ‘Do you want to make an impact?’

Because leadership is about impact; it is not about power.

According to Tim, ‘The purpose of power is to implement strategies and to reach difficult goals while valuing and respecting the team that accomplishes the goals.’

‘When we have power we must exercise great self-awareness, wrap it in humility, and rein in its deleterous effects.’

‘Effective leaders must be ruthlessly intolerant of any self-deception.’

‘If arrogance is the mother of all derailers, humility is the mother of all safeguards.’

‘Effective self-regulation frees us from the tyranny of our impulses.’

‘Authentic leaders express a personal narrative alongside their vision and goals for the organization.’

‘Inspiring others to give themselves unreservedly to the mission is not a management technique. Effective leadership is far more personal.’

‘Even in our most glaringly candid moments we are reluctant to acknowledge that some of our inclinations are, at least, ineffective, if not dishonorable. Denial provides a safe way to sidestep our tension- or at least it seems that way.’

‘By bringing the issue into the light of the day, you often realize what the right decision is.’

‘Management is positional. Leadership is personal.’

Source:

Tim Irwin (2014). Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything