Leadership

Mentoring or coaching is a deliberate, relational transfer of experience in a specific area of life, in which one person helps another to reach their God-given potential.

1. Deliberate: It doesn't happen by accident.
2. Relational: It's not about a program but a relationship, one person relating to another.
3. A transfer of experience: It's one person helping another to progress in a specific area. It's also about two people walking the road together.
4. Outcome-based: It's about making progress on the journey of reaching our full potential in a specific area of life.

Christian mentors are usually unpaid, and the mentoring relationship is voluntarily entered into by both the mentor and the mentee.

As well as enabling church workers and leaders to reach their full God-given potential, mentors help to support and encourage healthy and balanced perspectives on life and ministry. The benefits of mentoring include:

Accountability: Mentors hold mentees to their commitments.

Advocacy: They are on your side.

Affirmation: Mentors praise and celebrate progress, achievements and growth.

Assessment: They objectively evaluate your present circumstance or state.

Advice: 1. They draw out of you what you already know. 2. They give you information that you don't know.

Admonition: Mentors honestly confront you when you are on the wrong path.

Assets: You gain access to experience, ideas, books, podcasts, websites, DVDs, contacts and networks.