WHAT I’M LEARNING ABOUT MENTORING

My first Neuro-Semantic “mentoring” has just finished. We did it in Rio de Janeiro, May 24-25 at INap, the training center in Rio. We had a total of 11, although when Rodrigo came in and brought us some fresh Brazil chestnuts, we had 12. What projects did they come to learn about?

Two or three came to learn more about benchmarks— how to train benchmarkers to be more precise and effective, how to figure out how to create benchmarks for a skill that one wants to model. Several were interested in the “inner” skills—the deep personal skills that make up thinking, feeling, and most especially being. Several had projects that they were working on and wanted feedback from myself and their peers about the projects. For example, one was about creating a digital way to record a coaching session and keep that soft copy of the benchmarks, so that it can be followed up over time, showing the increasing development. We looked at working with and teaching teens, modeling expert skills in an organization, creating a program to Meta-Coaches for how to be more effective in business and in selling.