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“An instructor who cannot learn should not teach.”– Danita Bye

As a leader who builds leaders, informal two-way mentoring is one of the strategies for sharing your leadership, sales and business wisdom and insights with your emerging leader, whether they are at work or on the home front. What is two-way mentoring? It’s an informal, collaborative willingness to learn from each other in order to grow one’s personal and professional capacity to lead wisely. 60% of the leaders expressed frustration in our Millennial Survey, wondering how to work with this new crop of leaders. Two-way mentoring is an approach that’s steeped in deep respect for each other and a willingness and humbleness to learn from each other. What is your strategy to build your millennial leader so they can expand sales, grow revenues and ensure your business and predictable systems and processes will flourish in the future?

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Seemingly random, disconnected events take place throughout life. Then one morning you wake up and have an epiphany, Everything I’ve experienced has been leading up to this. Your years of gaining skills, experiences, and wisdom have been weaved together for an extraordinary purpose. Your leadership influence doesn’t stop when you achieve success, or when you retire. There are two divergent pathways for leaders. Robert Clinton, in “The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development,” reflects on his research of leaders, business, non-profit, and church leaders. Which trajectory are you on?

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A seasoned leader that I coach asked a legitimate question: “Does the next-gen leader I’m working with have what it takes to be successful in their current role and to build a career? Will they be able to carry forward and implement the strategies we have in place. Since the world is changing at such a rapid pace, and our future depends on this generation, how should we, the experienced business leader, respond to the millennial challenge? Should we write off this generation and wait for the next?

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"Help your up-and-coming leader to form solid character, build authentic confidence and value synergistic collaboration." - Danita Bye
During a recent conversation with Cathy Paper, the publicist of Millennials Matter, we discussed my motivation for the three main categories of my new book. Here’s a short summary of why I decided to write about Character, Confidence and Collaboration. It might provide deeper insight into the WHY of your mentoring and coaching work with your millennial sales leader. What is your strategy to develop these qualities in your millennial leader?