Mentoring Future Leaders

Mentoring Future Leaders
Designing Practices
“Practices naturally flow from self-observation. A practice is a
behaviour that we do again and again with the intention of improving
a quality or competence. In order to improve, we must be able to
observe whether or not we are doing the behaviour competently and
correct accordingly. Self-observation then becomes part of every
practice that we do. … A practice fades into the background when a
person has done it enough times to be able to competently perform
the action effortlessly and seamlessly.”
(Flaherty , 1999, p. 173).
Method 3: Working With Meaning Structures
What we achieve in life is the result of certain behaviours and those
behaviours again are the result of how we interpret ourselves and the world
at any given moment. This personal or subjective “interpretation” can be
called a meaning structure, a term that is used by Nancy Dixon in her
book, The Organizational Learning Cycle. Let’s consider Nancy’s
behavioural model:
A Behavioural Model for Mentoring
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Client’s Experience Client’s ”Reality” Mentor’s
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Observation
Module 5 - The Mentoring Process
Explicit Meaning
Structures
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