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Mentoring 
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<strong>Mentoring</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Leaders</strong><br />

Engage the<br />

World<br />

© Learning Link International<strong>
</strong><br />

April 2005<br />

Give<br />

Meaning<br />

(interpret)<br />

Surface Line<br />

Tacit Meaning<br />

Structures<br />

Language<br />

and<br />

Behaviour<br />

A mentor has first to become aware of a client’s meaning structures (the<br />

underlying drivers of behaviour) and then (s)he has to help the client to<br />

become aware of them. According to James Flaherty, there is no use in<br />

the client merely being told by the mentor what his meaning structures are<br />

– he has to become aware of them by means of the subtlety of the<br />

mentoring process and the skills of the mentor.<br />

“Our job as coaches (mentors) will be to understand the client’s<br />

structure of interpretation, then in partnership alter this structure so<br />

that the actions that follow bring about the intended outcome.”<br />

(Flaherty, 1999, p. 8).<br />

A major obstacle to change, growth and increased competence, is that<br />

people tend to “hear” only that which supports their existing viewpoints.<br />

Module 5 - The <strong>Mentoring</strong> Process Page ! 1

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