MENTORING

Mentoring is the fastest route to where you are going. It is riding on the carriage of those who have walked the same path you are on right now. Mentoring is your advantage above your peers. It is your access to the wisdom and experience of an entire generation before you. I’m sure you don’t want to take it for granted.

Mentoring is like an aircraft; it gets you to your destination faster than those who ply the road. True, it may be difficult for the aircraft to mount into the air, but its speed will definitely give you the needed advantage. Mentoring gives you unprecedented access to what those who went before you have learnt by errors, mistakes and attempts over their years of experience. It gives you confidence, directs your actions and gives you the freedom to be intentional with every move you make. With mentoring, you are not guessing!

If you want to be effective, you need mentoring. Let me put it in a better light: If you want to arrive at your dreams faster, you need mentoring! If you want to avoid the hidden pitfalls, escape the discouraging hassles and beat the odds against you, mentoring is the key. I have mentors who guide my steps. They reveal to me what I couldn’t have discovered on my own. They show me what could have taken me five years to find out. They help me avoid pitfalls that could have slowed me down and discouraged me. They help me gain speed and maintain my momentum towards significant achievement. I bet you desire the same.

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DON'T HIRE COMPUTERS!

This is especially to CEOs but if you are an employee or an aspiring CEO reading this, you are buying yourself an advantage.

I have observed and studied the workplace for some time now and I have observed that most of the people in organizations are not any better than a computer. Before you smile about that statement, give me some paragraphs to tell you what a computer truly is.

Researchers have proved that the capacity of the human brain is the number one plus eight long pages of zeros! If your mental capacity is this infinite, why are you performing so poorly? Or why are your members of staff performing so below par? If you agree with me, you will acknowledge the fact that computers were manufactured by humans. And you will agree too that only a fraction of the human brain’s capacity was replicated into the computer.

What disqualifies a computer from getting hired?

•  Computers can’t think! It is incontestable to say that computers don’t think, or better still can’t think! Why? Because they just cannot, as well as animals cannot.
• Computers lack initiative. Computers function only with the input of a human mind. Computers cannot initiate processes on their own; they are created to process instructions that have been given to them. Same goes with many workplace people. 
•  Computers are not proactive. They stay “booted” idly waiting for the boss to dish the next instruction to them. If you are boss intending to shed your work load yet hire a computer, you have successfully added some bigger responsibility to the already burdensome work load you have.
• Computers are not resourceful. You cannot successfully delegate if you always delegate to a computer because you will have to come back for the report before you can get it; and better be sure that the instructions you gave are accurate. They never take a second look at what lies before them neither do they seek better ways of executing their tasks. It’s not their fault; they just aren’t wired to do so.

If you upgrade a computer, you increase their efficiency not their effectiveness. They only get better at being ineffective not better. The only way to convert a computer is to execute a total overhaul. That is change the motherboard! You need to overhaul their prevailing mindset into what makes an effective worker. This is what we call Mental Revolution; and it comes best through Coaching.

Coaching takes time to work out and it can be quite challenging especially when the “computer” in question doesn’t see any reasons why he should change. And mind you, it costs quite some. If you think your computers are inseparable from you, employ coaching. But ensure that subsequent hiring efforts do not land you more computers.

My best advice to you is: don’t hire computers!

I'll like to have your feedback.  Please leave a comment below or send me an email to adelekeadeosun@gmail.com

Adeleke David Adeosun

 (Mr. Effectiveness)