It is National Mentoring Month, and part of that celebration is taking time to deliberately recognize and express gratitude for our mentors. Recognition is an important part of strengths development. It could be easy to take the assessment, read the results, and then not do anything with it. This pattern happens all too often in the strengths world. Gallup compels us to take our results further by instructing us to first share our results with someone close to us. It is in this process, where others recognize the strengths in us, that we begin to see a clearer picture of our talents. When we take time to call out the strengths in other people, we are adding value to their lives and assisting them in their ownership of strengths.
In this video, we see people recognizing the mentors and influencers in their lives. We challenge those that go through new mentor training to do this. Take time with your mentee to share about a person that has influenced each of you. Utilize strengths language and resources to recognize the talent in your influencer. Bring some paper and envelopes along and after sharing, spend time writing letters to those people you talked about and then send the letters to them. Through this simple activity, you will not only be expressing worth and significance to the people you will choose to recognize, but you will also be building on your own level of happiness as well as modeling a life of gratitude for your mentee.
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