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You Can Mentor is a network that equips and encourages mentors and mentoring leaders through resources and relationships to love God, love others, and make disciples in their own community.

We want to hear from you! Send any mentoring questions to hello@youcanmentor.com, and we'll answer them on our podcast. We want to help you become the best possible mentor you can be. Also, if you are a mentoring organization, church, or non-profit, connect with us to join our mentoring network or to be spotlighted on our show.

Please find out more at www.youcanmentor.com or find us on social media. You will find more resources on our website to help equip and encourage mentors. We have downloadable resources, cohort opportunities, and an opportunity to build relationships with other Christian mentoring leaders.

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    • Religion und Spiritualität

You Can Mentor is a network that equips and encourages mentors and mentoring leaders through resources and relationships to love God, love others, and make disciples in their own community.

We want to hear from you! Send any mentoring questions to hello@youcanmentor.com, and we'll answer them on our podcast. We want to help you become the best possible mentor you can be. Also, if you are a mentoring organization, church, or non-profit, connect with us to join our mentoring network or to be spotlighted on our show.

Please find out more at www.youcanmentor.com or find us on social media. You will find more resources on our website to help equip and encourage mentors. We have downloadable resources, cohort opportunities, and an opportunity to build relationships with other Christian mentoring leaders.

    225. Find Your Tribe // Mentoring Minute

    225. Find Your Tribe // Mentoring Minute

    If you’ve ever hiked up a mountain, it is no easy endeavor. There are easy parts and there are hard parts. Storms can pop up from time to time. Times of fun and times where you are challenged. But if you stick it out, the view is almost worth the struggle it took to get there. 

    One thing I know to be true about climbing a mountain is it is always easier when you do it with other people. 

    People can pick you up when you fall down. Can encourage you when you get tired. Can celebrate with you when you hit a check point. People who can champion you to do what you set out to do. 

    The same is true with mentoring. It’s always better when you do it with other people. 

    Mentoring alone is very difficult. Why? Because often times the “wins” in mentoring are few and far between. I have found that most mentors experience discouragement at some point in their mentoring journey. 

    And when discouragement hits, it’s usually downhill from there. A typical pattern may look something like this. 

    Get discouraged. 
    Start believing this isn’t working
    Negative outlook or bad attitude
    Stop pursuing
    Relationship dissolves

    But mentoring is all about persevering. It’s all about continuing to show up over and over and over. It’s about, like Jesus with us, overcoming the hard and being there for your mentee no matter what. 

    When you begin mentoring, it’s always a good idea to surround yourself with people who can help you on your mentoring journey. 

    Here are some potential key members of your mentoring tribe. 

    Organization (Church / non-profit / school)
    Best practicesCreate events to participate inHold you accountable
    Family
    Cheer you on and celebrate when good things happen with your menteeHelp share the load, as they build relationships with your menteePray for your mentee
    Friends
    Mentoring in a small group is an excellent way to team up to advance the Kingdom. You already live life together. Might as well do it on mission. Like having an assistant coach. Maybe they have expertise where you don’t. One more adult to look up to. 
    Your tribe can:
    Help you stay encouragedSpeak truth when you are believing liesCreate a safe place to vent about hard timesHold your proverbial mentoring arms up when they get tired like aaron did with moses. Give you new ideas on how to engage with your mentee or how to overcome an obstacle with your mentee. Help open up opportunities for your menteePray for you and pray with you. Champion you to stay in the mentoring game for the long haul. Provide respite if you have a difficult season or unforeseen circumstance pop up
    Just like climbing a mountain, or going on any journey, is better with a tribe of people, mentoring for the long haul is easier when you are surrounded by people who love you and who are for you. 

    So find your tribe. Be open about your mentoring needs, opportunities, struggles, and victories. Share the load and allow others to hold your arms up when you get tired. 

    Mentoring is always better with other people. 
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    Please follow @youcanmentor on social media and give us a 5 star rating! If you are a part of a mentoring organization, we'd love to get to know you! Please reach out to us and we can spotlight your org on the pod or on our website. Contact us at zach@youcanmentor.com or at www.youcanmentor.com.

    • 6 Min.
    224. Giving Gifts // Mentoring Minute

    224. Giving Gifts // Mentoring Minute

    Giving Gifts

    Giving gifts or purchasing things for your mentee is one of the more complicated topics you will face as a mentor. You want to be able to show your care and affection for your mentee through giving gifts, but so often they can become distractions in your mentoring relationship. 

    Let me be the first to say that this is a gray topic. It is not black and white. We are just giving you our perspective that we gained through years of mentoring. 

    We never want our mentee or their family to:
    See us as an ATMTo hang out with us to get somethingConfuse our mentee when we don’t give them everything they want
    This is especially difficult when the gifts you want to purchase are considered necessary items. 

    We have had mentees who:
    Needed new shoesNeeded a bedNeeded groceries
    When needs like this pop up, we suggest you use your connections to a non-profit organization or a church to partner with your mentee to take care of those needs. We highly recommend building a relationship with other ancillary organizations such as food banks, clothing closets, and churches. 

    If you want to provide basic items, we’re ok with that, as long as the mentee and their family know it’s coming from someone other than you. This is a benefit to mentoring with a specific organization - they can be the fall guy when someone asks you for a gift. You can blame it on them. 

    But there is a difference between a want and a need. 

    We recommend that you do not purchase your mentee anything with the exception of a birthday present. We recommend that you place a $25 cap on the birthday gift that you purchase. An occasional purchasing of food and treats is another thing. Perhaps you want to take your mentee to a game or movie. Those are ok as long as you follow the rule of three and you make sure it doesn’t turn into something the mentee expects. 

    Your presence is enough. Obviously this is assuming basic needs are being provided, the best gift you can give your mentee is love and relationship. 
    --Please follow @youcanmentor on social media and give us a 5 star rating! If you are a part of a mentoring organization, we'd love to get to know you! Please reach out to us and we can spotlight your org on the pod or on our website. 
    Contact us at zach@youcanmentor.com or at www.youcanmentor.com.

    • 6 Min.
    223. Mentoring is Baseball // Mentoring Minute

    223. Mentoring is Baseball // Mentoring Minute

    Mentoring is Baseball

    Did you know that the average of every baseball player in the hall of fame is a combined .303. That means if you hit the ball 303 out of 1,000 times, you are considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time. That’s 697 misses!

    3 out of every 10 makes a great baseball player. And I could say the same is true for mentoring. 

    When I first became a mentor, I wanted a home run every time. I thought my mentee would love me and tell me how great I was and earn straight A’s while getting a full ride to Harvard. When those things didn’t happen, I got disappointed. 

    After a while, I adjusted my definition of success. 

    Just hanging out wth my mentee was a basehit. A single, if you will. A smile was a double. A laugh was a triple. A solid conversation was a home run. 
    I focused on plate appearances, not homeruns. I trusted that the Lord would do what he does if I just kept getting up to the plate.

    3 out of every 10. If you can have a great hang out or deep conversation 3 out of every 10 times, I’d say that’ll put you in the mentoring hall of fame. 

    The more swings the better, as the more you swing, the more chances you get at contact. Just like the more you hang out with your mentee, the more chances you get at connecting. 

    Don’t worry about swinging for the fences or home runs. Just focus on taking your swings and seeing what happens. 

    Mentoring is Baseball. 
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    Please follow @youcanmentor on social media and give us a 5 star rating! If you are a part of a mentoring organization, we'd love to get to know you! Please reach out to us and we can spotlight your org on the pod or on our website. 
    Contact us at zach@youcanmentor.com or at www.youcanmentor.com.

    • 4 Min.
    222. Creating a Logic Model: Help Fundraise, Gain Clarity, & Build Team Unity with Kayce Strader of Save Nine Consulting

    222. Creating a Logic Model: Help Fundraise, Gain Clarity, & Build Team Unity with Kayce Strader of Save Nine Consulting

    Logic Model
     
    A logic model is a tool used by nonprofits to illustrate their impact. It is a one-page explanation of the connections between what you plan to put into a program and what you expect to deliver. It can serve as a powerful tool for focusing and articulating vision. It also serves as a built-in monitoring system to check in on programs, compare to goals, and make adjustments when needed. Finally, it can also increase donors and funders’ trust in the organization that is willing and able to strategically plan programs, measure their effectiveness, and prove the value of each investment.
    -- 
    The logic model does three main things:
    -    It connects the dots for donors and funders between what you say you need and what you promise to produce.
    -    It builds credibility for your organization because you clearly show the logic behind your decisions – why you decided to do what you do and how you can prove it worked.
    -    It unites the focus of staff around the key deliverables in a program.
    --
    They are usually constructed around just one program, with many nonprofits building a logic model for each major program they have. You can make a logic model for an existing or planned program.
     
    The Five Categories:
     
    Inputs:
     
    Nickname: The Recipe
    Question: What Do We Need?
     
    This category captures all you plan to put into the particular program. It includes materials, supplies, staff time, building usage, curriculum, in-kind donations, etc… anything it takes to make the program run. Think of it as “the recipe”.
     
    Activity:
     
    Nickname: The Action
    Question: What Will We Do With our Program?
     
    This is what you plan to do with all of the inputs to accomplishing your desired result. It is a straightforward listing of the activities you plan to do. This could include things like classroom instruction, live events, seminars, free lunches, etc. This is the action that you will do.
     
    Outputs:
     
    Nickname: The Results
     
    Question: What happened?
     
    This is what you expect to happen as a natural result of your activity. This is NOT a measure of effectiveness, but a measure of what happened. If the activity was to hand out fliers, your output would be number of fliers handed out. Many nonprofits focus on measuring and communicating outputs. If the activity was giving seminars around the world, an output could be number of miles flown by instructors. Outputs will almost always begin with “number of x.”
     
    Outcomes:
     
    Nickname: The Change
     
    Question: What Good Did it Do?
     
    This is perhaps the most important element of the logic model. Outputs are the measurements that capture what changed from how things were before you did your activity. Strong outcomes will show positive changes in areas that logically connect to your program’s intended impact. These measurements require prior planning, because you will need baselines to illustrate where the population was before your intervention and where they are now as a direct result of your action. Outcomes will almost always start with “percentage change in x.”
     
    Impact:
     
    Nickname: The Hope
     
    Question: What Are We Going to Change?
     
    The impact portion of a logic model is a simple, straightforward statement explaining what you hope to see for this population 8-10 years from now. 
    --Find an example on our website under the tab "downloadables".--Contact Kayce at http://savenineconsulting.com/ and find out more at www.youcanmentor.com--Please follow @youcanmentor on social media and give us a 5 star rating! If you are a part of a mentoring organization, we'd love to get to know you! Please reach out to us and we can spotlight your org on the pod or on our website. 

    • 50 Min.
    221. Identity Based vs. Skill Based Mentoring // Mentoring Minute

    221. Identity Based vs. Skill Based Mentoring // Mentoring Minute

    Identity-Based vs. Skill-Based Mentoring

    “Just like a good tool doesn’t make you a handy man. Knowing skills alone doesn’t fulfill your mentee’s potential” 

    Skill-based mentoring usually goes like this: 
    Think of things you think your mentee should knowShake a hand, tie a tie, resume, etc…Teach them these thingsHope they use them to reach their full-potential--
    Skill-based mentoring is good, but I believe it is secondary to Identity-based mentoring

    Skills are no good if you’re mentee believes:
    They lack intelligence or can't succeedThey will never amount to anythingThey lack confidence, hope or have no self-value--

    Let’s start with identity-based mentoring first.
    Help them see themselves how God sees them. Encourage, build up, & champion your menteeBe the most encouraging person in the world--
    When they believe this, they will have intrinsic motivation to learn the skills. They will be hungry to become all that they can be because they believe in themselves and have someone believing in them. 

    Now that they believe they have worth and are capable of success, introduce the skills. 

    First identity. Then skills.
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    Please follow @youcanmentor on social media and give us a 5 star rating! If you are a part of a mentoring organization, we'd love to get to know you! Please reach out to us and we can spotlight your org on the pod or on our website. Contact us at zach@youcanmentor.com or at www.youcanmentor.com.

    • 8 Min.
    220. Connection over Content // Mentoring Minute

    220. Connection over Content // Mentoring Minute

    Connection over Content - Let's keep it simple:
    Pursue Kids: Are you going after them?Pursue Jesus: Are you staying filled up so you can pour out?-
    What does it mean to connect?
    Are you reaching out consistently?Are you interested in what they are interested in?Are you remembering important issues in their life?Are you showing up? Games, events, etc…Are you speaking life? When they leave your presence, how do you want them to feel?-
    “A kid doesn’t care what you know until they know that you care” 
    Mentors who invested into us - Often, we don't remember what they said, but we remember them showing up. We remember how they made me feel. Content is good. Teaching them things. Books. Pods. It is good... but it’s secondary. 
    Connection is primary. 
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    Please follow @youcanmentor on social media and give us a 5 star rating! If you are a part of a mentoring organization, we'd love to get to know you! Please reach out to us and we can spotlight your org on the pod or on our website. 
    Contact us at zach@youcanmentor.com or at www.youcanmentor.com.

    • 8 Min.

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