Tales Of Leadership: Mentorship

Happy Friday, everybody. It's always good to go live for the Cadre crew. This is Luke Wentland, your chief motivational officer. I go live every Monday as well as Thursday. Every Monday is Monday. Motivation. Every Thursday is tales from leadership. Unfortunately, had to punt. We've just had sicknesses ravaged through our home over the last several weeks. It was like COVID, influenza, flu, you name it. But today, what I want to talk about just mentorship, mentorship and coaching. Why mentorship matters?

So there's three reasons why I feel that mentorship and or coaching is super beneficial for you at any level of your organization. It does not matter if you're a CEO, if you're a director, a supervisor, a direct line staff. It literally matters not. Here's why I encourage you to seek coaching and mentorship. Number one, experience. Those individuals that have been there before, that have been in your shoes, that have lived, eaten, breathe the role or the responsibility of what you've done prior, right?

So those individuals have done it. That is experience. Individuals with lived experience, individuals that have coached other individuals, etcetera. So, again, you can garner so much from individuals with that added experience that naturally have that that can help you. Number two, time and saves time. So why mentorship? Why coaching? Time? Timing. Timing is everything. Time is everything in business. Time is everything in life. And what's our most valuable commodity, like, of everything that we have.

Right? It's time. So when individuals have done this before through that experience, it can save you or cost you time. And I would encourage you to either hire on a coach or find that mentor so you can do one thing that's very, very important outside of the natural, that is, of their experience that they're gonna drive and bring to you, is support you to move faster in your decision making with their experience. So you have crystal clear vision on what you believe is best in order to how to proceed and transfer and move things forward.

Okay? So number one, again, is experience. Number two is time. Number three, you ready for this? This is, again, just my opinion. Everybody else may have their own. My last but not least is cost. Okay? So when you talk about experience and you talk about time, there's naturally a cost to those things and the cost of a coach or the cost of a mentorship and meeting with those individuals. Obviously, a lot of mentorships are free. Free. Just individuals, friends, family, relatives, people that have done this before, etcetera, that want to support, that want to help, that want to be able to guide, lead, help the charge, all the things, because, like, they're so passionate and energized about it.

So some mentors, naturally are free, but it's always great. You can always hire coaches. So again, leaning into the cost savings, I see Chris on here. Chris, how great would it be to have had a coach early on in your business to talk about all the flubs that you made to save you time and save you money, right? And you can do that for your own spot in your business or in your work relationship or your personal relationships. So again, think about those things in where you're at in life, especially when it comes to business at any level of your organization, and ask yourself, do I need more experience?

Do I need somebody who's done this before? Is this going to be a cost saving measure for me? Is it going to save me time? So again, those are the reasons that I love mentorship and I love coaching. We have an amazing group of coaches here at Cadre that can support you. Chris says would have been a game changer. And I guarantee Risa would probably say the same thing if she maybe had somebody earlier on in the journey, whether it's with her styling business and or the rescue kit. Right. Probably. Odds are somebody to be able to help support you and your decision making process from jump street probably could have saved you a little bit of time, a little bit of money, and with that experience can naturally escalate your business a little bit quicker, faster than maybe you've ever been.

But regardless, any role of your organization, put yourself in the best position of success by hiring on a coach or working with a mentor and able to support you. Wish you were my coach. Always, always support, no matter what. But again, with that being said, I want to end off this weekend by encouraging you in whatever role you're at in an organization. Are you getting the answers you need by your leadership? Do you feel supported? Do you have somebody that ultimately helps guide you and is your guiding light and is at your north star for your roles and responsibility at work?

Right? And if you have those things, boy, oh boy, oh boy, are you lucky. But if you don't, I encourage you to find them because that's ultimately going to be the game changer in your professional career, which in turn is going to affect your personal career. Have the best weekend this week's tales of leadership I apologize I was not on yesterday. I will do the best I can to always be here on Thursdays. You know, we just had a lot of things going on at home. So again, I apologize about that. I look forward to next week.

Already have an amazing week, everybody. And last but not least, there's an individual at Cadre that I want to highlight. Her name is Kelsey Weaver. Anything you see, social media or otherwise, for us, it's her birthday today, so everybody wish Kelsey a happy birthday. Have an amazing week, y'all better weekend, and we'll see you back on Monday. Take care. Bye bye. Thanks again for your time.