Tag: Management Learning

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

10 Leadership Secrets From Jack Welch

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Great leaders never stop learning. As a leader, if you want your people to keep growing, you must never stop learning.

Because your people are not going to grow if you are not learning. Your organization is not going to grow if your people are not learning. And your customers are not going to be happy if your people are not growing.

To fix that, according to Jack Welch, ‘At the heart of this culture is an understanding that an organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business advantage.’

‘Find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light.’

‘What we are looking for … are … leaders who can energize, excite, and control rather than enervate, depress, and control.’

‘The only way to change people’s minds is with consistency.’

‘The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea.’

‘Every layer is a bad layer. The world is moving at such a pace that control has become a limitation. It slows you down.’

‘Speed is the product of an open organization.’

‘You’ve got to balance freedom with some control, but you’ve got to have more freedom than you’ve ever dreamed of.’

‘Those who actually did the work … had some striking ideas on how things could be done better.’

‘Quality is the next act of productivity.’

Source:

Robert Slater (1999). Jack Welch and the GE Way: Management Insights and Leadership Secrets of the Legendary CEO