Claire writes: “This month, I was asked to write for a blog about empowering leaders. Who had empowered me?, they asked. I wrote about Mary Jo who both gave me the back room confidence to grow into a more public role – and Colin who got out of the way and gave me opportunities which he could have taken himself.
We can mentor people who do similar roles in different organisations – but when we mentor people who work closely with us – either as paid staff or volunteers – we have the influence to be able to be more strategic and give them new opportunities. That can mean giving them higher profile pieces of work that we would like to do ourselves. That’s how they develop their own talent.
Who is mentoring you? And more importantly, where are you getting out of the way and standing in the wings to allow others to grow, develop and flourish as leaders? Think about it…”
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