Real Yodas in the workplace and in on-on-one relationships function in a way that is very different from the patterns I described yesterday.<\/p>\n
Real Yodas start with the young yedi knight\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n The people I have known who functioned like true mentors always put their apprentice first.\u00a0 They may have had their own agendas, anxieties, responsibilities, and frustrations \u2014 but they set those aside to give their full attention to the person they were mentoring.<\/p>\n Real Yodas find a place for young Jedi to grow\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n They looked for places where their apprentice would grow.\u00a0 The agenda wasn\u2019t a matter of getting a job done or one of hazing.\u00a0 They thought developmentally about the needs of their apprentice, they looked for experiences that would contribute to their growth.<\/p>\n Real Yodas share their wisdom.<\/em><\/p>\n They didn\u2019t use what they knew to manipulate or control.\u00a0 They shared it with their apprentices.\u00a0 In that way they prepared their apprentices and preserved a growing body of knowledge.<\/p>\n Real Yodas walk with their apprentices and find themselves with friends.<\/em><\/p>\n Launching an apprentice was only half of the work.\u00a0 Caring enough to walk with them through life and encourage them mattered as much as the early stages of the relationship.\u00a0 The gift in it for Yodas was the apprentice became a friend and peer.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Yodas in the workplace and in on-on-one relationships function in a way that is very different from the patterns I described yesterday. Real Yodas start with the young yedi knight\u2026 The people I have known who functioned like true mentors always put their apprentice first.\u00a0 They may have had their own agendas, anxieties, responsibilities, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mentoring"],"yoast_head":"\n