Well-Living Workplace – Part 2
If you missed Part 1 of Well-Living Workplace, please click here.
In order to align foreground and the background workplace conversations, what is needed and what has been missing is a theoretically sound, rigorous way of understanding the nature of the background in general and how the background is occurring within your workplace.
If you have a way of seeing and understanding the background and its relationship to the foreground, you have three simple choices moment to moment:
Ø Do what you say (be your word)
Ø Modify your commitments
Ø Modify or create something in the background
Be your word, means you walk your talk. Whatever it is that you espouse, you do. That when you show up you fully engage with those involved. With engagement you speak your truth and accept the consequences that arise from speaking your truth. Difficult as it might seem each day practice it with others. Your conversation will be better for it.
Here the theoretical framework is based on that the background manifests as persons’ speaking and listening, including their self-talk or thinking. The background is language-based describing, explaining and prescribing the nature of reality.
We say that there is no background for an animal. Background occurs and appears in language. It excludes things not being said because you cannot say them. Why is this important? If the background is conversational in nature, it allows you to transition the background.
We are also saying that background is not psychological; nor is it about the past, motivation, etc. It's not physical, except at the biological level and it's not in your brain. You find it in the body, in muscle memory and automatic behaviour. Read the entire issue.
8 Types of Business Mentors Available To Guide Your Entrepreneurial Journey
Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs do not have a business mentor. This lack of a relationship is such a loss because the entrepreneur is missing the mentor’s insights of having been there and done that. Mentors offer insights to advance all aspects of the entrepreneur’s life. Fortunately, for those entrepreneurs who do have a mentor and have chosen wisely, they benefit from the insights gleaned from the conversations. The eight types mentioned are helpful only when the entrepreneur is clear about, “What is mentoring?” and “Will mentoring be helpful to MY entrepreneurial excellence?
Inside mentor: someone who is inside the organization that has experience worth tapping into. As an entrepreneur you might not have competence in all areas of entrepreneurship and entreprenuering. However, others you hired have insights they’ve developed and you could learn from them to improve your performance. Such a relationship is likely to be short in duration. It’s meant to tap into the mentor’s expertise. Once you acquire the relevant competence, you disband the mentor-mentee connection and reframe the ongoing relationship in mutually respectful dialogue.
Outside mentor: someone who is outside your organization. They could be another entrepreneur you perceive as being ahead of you. You might find them through an entrepreneur network group or mastermind type gathering. Their perspective is on entrepreneurship from their business perspective- that may have a direct or indirect connection with you.
Remote mentor: someone who is in a different location from you. From a distance your conversations will spark different perspectives because, for the most part, they are sharing the pureness of their advice as they are not living in the proximity of your business, like an outside or inside mentor would. For More Business Mentor Types, click here.
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Dr Stephen Hobbs, is a balance facilitator for entrepreneurs. He guides entrepreneurs to their wellth creation through adopting and adapting a thinking-feeling-intuiting, ethical decision making platform to grow and sustain entrepreneurial excellence. www.WELLthLearning.com
