Mentoring 
Today’s leaders have the critical
responsibility to develop future leaders prepared to meet tomorrow’s
challenges. An essential component of this development is mentoring. Mentoring
is usually an informal, familiar exchange from seniors to juniors conducted
with a professional and caring rapport. Mentoring will often focus on
our unique army culture experience (ACE) framework and will frequently address professional development
concerns. It is real-life leader development before very subordinate. Mentoring
is about one-on-one, face-to-face counseling, focused on preparing junior
leaders for increased responsibility. A successful mentor can significantly influence character and
values
while guiding officers through the fundamentals of branch and functional area
competencies.
Mentoring begins with the leader setting
the right example. Leaders mentor soldiers every day in a positive or negative
way depending on how they live the Army values and function as a leader.
Mentoring allows junior leaders to see a mature example of values, attributes and skills in action and to develop their
own leadership abilities accordingly. Mentoring is not without a degree of risk
as senior leaders share their own personal and professional experiences with
junior leaders to exemplify a coaching point that builds their 6 C’s which character, cautious, confidence, commitment,
competency and consistency
Mentoring requires leaders to look for and
take advantage of teaching/coaching moments; opportunities to use routine tasks
to build skills and confidence in subordinates. Mentoring should not be limited
to formal sessions; every event should be considered a mentoring opportunity,
from quarterly training briefs to after-action reviews to casual, recreational
activities.
The most important legacy of today’s senior
leaders is to mentor junior leaders to fight and win future conflicts;
mentoring develops great leaders to lead great soldiers. He can able to connect, share, create, learn, teach and
lastly inspire his mentees will be a G.R.E.A.T mentor.
SARA
"Teaching is a labor
of love... it requires commitment.
I'm not
keen to encourage a culture where people clock in and clock out with same
precision."
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