Mentoring Gifts

"I love you. We all love you. Now throw some strikes."

Grad School Parent-Teacher Conference

"Tom, mentoring is more than encouraging people to be just like you."

"Why don't you try learning from your own mistakes?"

'Having done the mentoring skills questionnaire I think I need a mentor to mentor me in improving my mentoring.'

"One day, this will all be yours. But right now, I need you down in the warehouse."

Mentoring Unit: 'Go on! You can do it! You can be a mentor!'

'I thought you could help me fill in the details.'

"Tim, there's more to coaching than trying to get everyone to be just like you!"

'Believe me, I know transformation isn't easy. I pulled a muscle once.'

'One day they'll realize I have no idea where I'm going.'

Man to man about man at desk being watered: 'A bit of nurturing and he should grow into the job nicely.'

'Is it my imagination or are entrepreneurs getting younger.'

'I give the same advice to all new teachers. Pretend you know what you are doing.'

'Mentoring requires many sophisticates qualities and skills...'

'The best advice I can give, to a young teacher, is to realize that students will probably forget most of what you say but not how it made them feel.'

'Have you met my protege?'

"Excuse me a moment, whilst I just change hats."

'Nobody showed me what to do, so why do they expect me to do something?'

'A good leader can lead them to water, but a great leader can also make them drink.'

'Forget everything I told you about flying.'

"Maybe I'm too good a mentor."

'Intelligence is spotting the flaw in the boss's reasoning. Wisdom is refraining from pointing it out'

"Always take the bull firmly by the tail and look him directly in the eye..."

'Never get your story too straight: they may hold you to it.'

'Norman, mentoring is not about making everybody else the same as you.'

'Remember, son. A winner is one who can keep his head while all around him are losing theirs.'

Hall of Fame.

"Please, feel free to disagree."

"What? Too personal too soon?"

'Let's put that nasty word out 'plummet' of our minds.'

"Since I retired, I've been doing some part-time consulting for a younger predators' group."

'Don't worry, you'll grow with the job.'

'You mean I have to MENTOR, too?'

"Take my advice, Roberts, and hide your light under a bushel."