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Crowns mentors with the honour they deeply deserve. -Dennis O'Neill Marked by humanity, insight, transparency, and appealing frankness. -Dr. Thomas Fudge Interesting easy read and compelling guide to a meaningful life. -Kenneth Hooper Not only for "professional mentors" but everyone involved with people. -Wayne Shaw Challenges you to remove "facades" and engage in self-examination. -Brian Usher Compelling, articulate, and insightful. I couldn't put it down. -Keith Parks Demonstrates that few mistakes are final; the difference is how we react. -Ed Wickens Candidly confronts the raw reality of failures and successes. -John Kennington Engaging, heartbreaking, genuinely uplifting book, full of hard-won insight. -Dr. Kenneth Jacobsen Challenges us to assess life as mentoring moments providing avenues to growth. -Dr. Shayne Tracy Compels us to share his life experiences and to use those lessons to grow as mentors. -Mark MacLeod. Dr. Donald Carmont brings to his mentoring and leadership consulting practice an expertise in people skills gained from more than thirty years of leadership, teaching, training, writing and speaking to hundreds of thousands of people in nearly thirty countries. More than 10,000 organizations have had employees in attendance at seminars that Don has conducted in conferences, classrooms, and on-site for organizations throughout North America, the UK and Asia. Previous to establishing his training practice, Don was a church leader, pastoring churches from Atlantic to Pacific, conducting radio and television broadcasts, and travelling the world as a conference speaker.
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The Naked Mentor One Man’s Journal. One Man’s Journey.
Thirty-One Leadership Principles Drawn from a Legacy of Mentoring Experiences
Donald M. Carmont, Ph.D.
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Contents Advance Review ............................................................................................................v Comments ................................................................................................................... vii Acknowledgements......................................................................................................xv Foreword ................................................................................................................... xvii Introduction................................................................................................................ xix Preface....................................................................................................................... xxii 1. An Unintentional Mentor...............................................................................................1 2. What’s Trust Got to Do with It? ....................................................................................5 3. You Ought to Be Committed .........................................................................................8 4. A Mentor in the Making ..............................................................................................12 5. A Pygmalion Mentor....................................................................................................15 6. The Solo Spirit ............................................................................................................19 7. The Creative Spark ......................................................................................................23 8. How Snapshots Create Visions....................................................................................27 9. Osmosis and All That Jazz...........................................................................................31 10. Tonsils and Oratory......................................................................................................35 11. A Legacy of Spirit...................................