LCDR Private RallyPoint Member 1002182 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Consider how leadership and mentorship relate and the following quote from Jack Welch:<br /><br />&quot;Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.&quot; 2015-09-29T12:03:36-04:00 LCDR Private RallyPoint Member 1002182

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Consider how leadership and mentorship relate and the following quote from Jack Welch:<br /><br />&quot;Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.&quot;

2015-09-29T12:03:36-04:00 2015-09-29T12:03:36-04:00 1stSgt Private RallyPoint Member 1002200

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I can read all I want about leadership, but as a Co GySgt I had a 1st Sgt who was all about showing me the ropes and actually grooming me. He assisted me in getting were I am today.

2015-09-29T12:06:55-04:00 2015-09-29T12:06:55-04:00 Cpl Micah Wing 1002207

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To me it means teaching, demonstrating, actually showing someone how to do something. And not just for a short period of time, but until they fully understand whatnitbis that they are trying to accomplish.

2015-09-29T12:09:36-04:00 2015-09-29T12:09:36-04:00 LTC Private RallyPoint Member 1002224

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You have to have been there before you can mentor. I've seen some try to do it while they were still learning the job themselves. It was horrible!

2015-09-29T12:13:37-04:00 2015-09-29T12:13:37-04:00 Sgt Private RallyPoint Member 1002260

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mentoring is a form of teaching that I like to use to encourage and support individuals, whether they are children or adults. The goal is to point the individual in the right direction, so that learning is accomplished and skills are developed.

2015-09-29T12:20:30-04:00 2015-09-29T12:20:30-04:00 SSG Warren Swan 1002340

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To really be an effective mentor, you have to go beyond the teachings of the job, but you have to groom the mind to match. You have to get the individual to adjust fire mentally and see things in a way that could challenge his/her core yet accept them.

2015-09-29T12:41:41-04:00 2015-09-29T12:41:41-04:00 1SG Michael Blount 1002467

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Advocating for one of your protoges when the doors are closed and decisions being made behind his/her back

2015-09-29T13:14:43-04:00 2015-09-29T13:14:43-04:00 PO2 Brandon Boucher 1002620

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is exactly what Mentoring means to me. You have to truly know yourself and what you are capable of, the mistakes you have made and learned from them in order to be a successful leader. I'm currently a Personal Development Coach and I specialize in helping people step into their own power and find their purpose in this life. I don't lead them, so much as guide them based on their own experiences.

2015-09-29T13:56:46-04:00 2015-09-29T13:56:46-04:00 SSgt Alex Robinson 1002820

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Lead by example with a firm but fair hand. Encourage. Motivate. Inspire.

2015-09-29T14:47:40-04:00 2015-09-29T14:47:40-04:00 SSG Leo Bell 1002831

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>While I was active I would always try to mentor my soldiers and teach them the right was to do things. To let them know they needed to lead by example and to always teach the ones under them and to help out the problem soldiers. Now that I am a civilian I try to teach the young adults how to do the right thing. I will always tell the kids who work under me to tuck there shirts in and pull there pants up. To not be in there phones when customers are around. I tell them first impression last with people. I try to do the same with my children and my nephews. The lesson might not always get thru but I try.

2015-09-29T14:51:00-04:00 2015-09-29T14:51:00-04:00 MAJ Ken Landgren 1016127

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I noticed mentor are deep thinkers due to experience. They will impart with you nuggets of information that are key to operations. They can paint the picture of the close and deep fight that you would not have seen, if not for their desire to help out the mentees.

2015-10-04T18:27:22-04:00 2015-10-04T18:27:22-04:00 SSG Jess Peters 3970519

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Finding the best use of an individual soldiers abilities. That means making sure each man is giving opportunities to succeed. There were times i asked for certain soldiers no one else wanted to be assigned to my crew. I was always fair but would never accept poor performance. Even if a task had to be done repeatedly until done correctly. I would keep them on the task after hours too. Generally after the first day they started performing to standards. <br />When promotion boards were pending i held practice boards using squad and team leaders. When actual board day came it was easy for them. Just need to do all you can to help people to succeed.

2018-09-17T04:51:49-04:00 2018-09-17T04:51:49-04:00 SGT Brian Pasquarelli 7729037

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To teach others a skill

2022-06-15T19:35:38-04:00 2022-06-15T19:35:38-04:00 LCDR Paul Doe 7743061

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mentoring is taking all your experience and knowledge and passing it down to the junior or new recruits so they might not not make the same mistakes as you did plus helping them progress their careers.

2022-06-24T19:05:07-04:00 2022-06-24T19:05:07-04:00 1SG John McKim 7751384

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>You can lead but you must be ready to follow. Set the standard before asking others to do it.

2022-06-29T18:26:37-04:00 2022-06-29T18:26:37-04:00 1SG John McKim 7751386

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Do your best to train the next generation for the future.

2022-06-29T18:27:48-04:00 2022-06-29T18:27:48-04:00 SSgt Private RallyPoint Member 7751467

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Leading is talking care of yourself first to exemplify self growth. Which naturally promotes mentorship and becomes part of the network of leaders.

2022-06-29T19:05:42-04:00 2022-06-29T19:05:42-04:00 SMSgt Bob Wilson 7753165

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Grooming an individual for success.

2022-06-30T15:41:28-04:00 2022-06-30T15:41:28-04:00 Cpl Samuel Pope Sr 7753397

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Actually, it depends solely upon the protégé. How the protégé reacts to the mentor defines the relationship. A mentor must have a heart of calm resolve. And, be ready for any and all of the twists and turns of the relationship. If a mentor does not realize that &#39;hearing is not necessarily listening&#39;, &#39;doing is not learning&#39;, and walking out in front is not leading&#39;, he/she has failed their protégé(s). If the relationship becomes an infantile tit-for-tat, it&#39;s a toss-up rivalry and not a mentorship. The failure becomes the soul property of the mentor.

2022-06-30T17:58:18-04:00 2022-06-30T17:58:18-04:00 SFC Clifford Brewer 7773236

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To me it mean follow the example of a person show good leadership traits..no matter who that person is..I did and it help me through 22+ yrs of military service and on to 22+ yrs work MWR and DOD mostly it just plain old respect for a human being

2022-07-14T03:34:47-04:00 2022-07-14T03:34:47-04:00 SPC Susan Glass 7784990

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sharing that your failures are your greatest strengths. I feel that you can only pass on knowledge or skills if you have failed and still triumphed and improved.

2022-07-21T15:36:11-04:00 2022-07-21T15:36:11-04:00 SN Michael Gay 7795240

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Teaching the young how to live a productive life.

2022-07-27T22:46:53-04:00 2022-07-27T22:46:53-04:00 SPC Nancy Detwiler 7795533

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Lending your experience and sense of ownership to a younger troop, or newbie there do the job and do it right

2022-07-28T04:47:54-04:00 2022-07-28T04:47:54-04:00 SP5 Sheldon Behensky 7796619

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Being a teacher and also being a coach that will help you grow, think for yourself as well as learn

2022-07-28T15:36:32-04:00 2022-07-28T15:36:32-04:00 SPC Corinna Smith 7797113

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mentorship is teaching by allowing that individual to learn through not just being successful but through their own failure. If we do not fail we do not learn to correct the mistake and succeed in the end.

2022-07-28T22:09:27-04:00 2022-07-28T22:09:27-04:00 Sgt Leon Hoskins 7854071

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Paying it forward

2022-08-31T20:21:59-04:00 2022-08-31T20:21:59-04:00 SPC Robert Bobo 7860934

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well said, As a Supervisor, Manager and Executive I invested almost 60% of my time developing others, life is so much easier when key members of your team are effective, <br />productive and successful, very rewarding to watch a new leader become a top performer

2022-09-04T19:14:19-04:00 2022-09-04T19:14:19-04:00 Sgt Victor Arce 7864266

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Passing on your knowledge to others.

2022-09-06T23:06:55-04:00 2022-09-06T23:06:55-04:00 SSG Eric Blue 7954304

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Not much. In my lifetime, I&#39;ve mentored a number of people. But I&#39;m still learning how to mentor because that is something I&#39;ve never received during my life. AND CERTAINLY NOT DURING MY ARMY CAREER!

2022-10-28T14:03:49-04:00 2022-10-28T14:03:49-04:00 SSG Steve Knox 8057026

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>To me it means sharing knowledge and experience through past events to enhance another&#39;s wellbeing,

2022-12-30T10:55:23-05:00 2022-12-30T10:55:23-05:00 Sgt James Sullivan 8348880

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Being a mentor is being a guide. Your responsibility is to take someone, who is learning, and guide them through their journey to reach whatever goals they have set for themselves. If they succeed, then so have you.

2023-06-29T08:32:58-04:00 2023-06-29T08:32:58-04:00 Sgt David Branham 8490375

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Mentoring is assisting others advance their knowledge and skills (or skill set), to further their advancement, goals or<br />achievements.

2023-09-27T22:21:04-04:00 2023-09-27T22:21:04-04:00 1SG John Millan 8644817

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Sharing knowledge, values, education, training and experience.

2024-01-30T10:02:26-05:00 2024-01-30T10:02:26-05:00 2015-09-29T12:03:36-04:00