Mentoring and faciliting executives is vastly different than having middle managers or new supervisors in the class.  I spend more time with the higher executives digging deep into the far-reaching consequences and implications of average people skills [emotional intelligence].  New supervisors need assistance and practice in delegating, “letting go” and coaching.  Middle managers find mentoring and strategizing most challenging.  I have found that some instructions will transform these confident, intelligent, knowing leaders into stunned deer being caught in a car’s headlights. So what are these instructions?

• ‘pair up’ or ‘find a partner’
• ‘get into groups of three’
• ‘in your group, select who will go first’

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