{"id":2039,"date":"2016-02-22T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2016-02-22T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T12:12:06","slug":"how-to-be-a-mentoring-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-mentoring-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a Mentoring Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"watch-description-text\" class=\"\">\n<p id=\"eow-description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/-27b59WdMhjw\/AAAAAAAAAAI\/AAAAAAAAAAA\/kMijhTNYnJw\/s88-c-k-no\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"63\" height=\"63\" \/>In this short clip, Omagbitse (&#8220;Gbitse&#8221;) Barrow, a leading Nigerian writer on values-based leadership and personal development speaks about four mentoring skills you can practice to be a better leader and manager.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> I would argue that, for the manager, every one of your employees should be mentored.<\/p>\n<div  id=\"_ytid_25221\"  width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"338\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HCJKodhCW98?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=0&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;theme=light&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"YouTube player\"  src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/HCJKodhCW98\/hqdefault.jpg\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"watch-description-extras\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short clip, Omagbitse (&#8220;Gbitse&#8221;) Barrow, a leading Nigerian writer on values-based leadership and personal development speaks about four mentoring skills you can practice to be a better leader and manager. NOTE: I would argue that, for the manager, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/how-to-be-a-mentoring-leader\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}