Mentorship Secrets for Success with Author Christine Van Horn

Are you a business leader who wants to elevate mentorship and cultivate strong character development in your workplace? If so, I have the solution for you. Join me as I reveal the success secrets for building robust mentorship programs and fostering a culture of integrity, resilience, and growth within your organization. Show Notes | Transcript Be the example for those you lead - people will follow what leaders do. - Christine Van Horn Introducing Christine Van Horn, an expert in mentorship and character development with a wealth of experience under her belt. As a certified emergency manager for three decades, she has plenty of insights to share about the importance of character and mentorship in both business and personal life. Christine is also an accomplished author, teacher, and speaker whose latest book, Teach Your Children Timeless Truths in Uncertain Times, showcases her dedication to fostering character growth in children. When it comes to mentorship, Christine has a friendly approach that's both engaging and uplifting. In this episode, you will be able to: Understand the significance of mentorship in fostering success in various aspects of life. Identify key character traits crucial for lasting and beneficial mentorship bonds. Realize the need for strengthening fundamental values in our communities. Acquire knowledge on establishing fruitful mentorship initiatives in the workplace. Adapt to our ever-changing world by nurturing an informed and curious mindset. Related Live. Love. Engage. episodes you may enjoy: Embracing Empathy with Kristen Donnelly Empower yourself to understand and appreciate diversity and inclusivity with Kristen Donnelly's help, and learn to human better. Leadership: The Samurai Way with Don Schmincke Don Schmincke's scientific methods make him the thought-leader in applying genetics, evolution, and anthropology to strategic growth. Pride Leadership with Dr. Steve Yacovelli In this episode, Dr. Steve Yacovelli talks about leadership and inclusion. Resources: Connect with Christine here Email Chris (at) drchris.co Join the Soulful Women's Network here Send me a message here ☕ Support the podcast here ❤ Love this episode? Leave us a review and rating here Connect with Gloria: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Twitter TRANSCRIPT Gloria Grace Rand You. Namaste. I am Gloria Grace Rand, and so delighted to be with you for another edition of Live. Love. Engage. And I've got a lovely woman here today to talk to us about mentoring, but I'm going to give you a little bit more about her bio first. So Dr. Christine Van Horn is an author, a teacher, and speaker. She's been a certified emergency manager for 30 years and is now applying her emergency management experience to focus on character in society. And her goal is to help rebuild foundational values through mentorship. And her latest book, for those of you who are listening, you won't have the benefit of seeing it on the screen, but it is called Teach Your Children Timeless Truths in Uncertain Times. And before we got started with the podcast, I knew I wanted to be able to focus on, we were talking about what I was going to ask you about and about how you got on this journey. And I realized that I do want to talk a little bit about the book, even though I know we want to focus more on Mentorship for Business. But I would love to know a little bit about what even prompted you to write this book and why you are passionate about helping to rebuild foundational values. Christine Van Horn All right, thank you. And first of all, it's wonderful to be on the show, so thank you so much, Gloria. And this is not my first book on character. I actually have two before that. I wrote a book for children, older children called Captain Character. But I have focused on character for quite a number of years, and I've just kind of looked around in society and seen where we are at and thought about how life was when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, and there's a big difference. And the gap, I do believe, is character and lack thereof. Most of the things you see in society that are bad are due to a lack of character, so it kind of got me in that focus. But I really just kind of feel like the Lord's kind of pointed me in a direction that this is where I'm supposed to focus on in society. So I wrote Teach Your Children Timeless Truths in Uncertain Times, which is looking at character traits, life skills, and being an example in the lives of children. And those, I think, are three gap areas that I see in society today. That's kind of my focus. Gloria Grace Rand Well, I appreciate you doing that because I agree there does seem to be especially with all of the not discourse of the, not disarray but just distress in how we communicate. I'll use that dis word. I'm trying to think of something here, but, yeah, there's just a lot of conflict and a lot of, my way or the highway, and there seems to be little room for compromise anymore, and that's disheartening. There we go. I got another dis word in there. So I wanted to talk about. Like I said, some of the things that you talk about in the book are not only good for kids, but they're also applicable for adults as well. And one of the things you talk about is one of the things that you're focused in on is mentorship. But for those people out there, they may be a little bit confused because I know sometimes I think even when I was first starting in my business, I wasn't exactly sure on what exactly is a mentor and how does that work, say, compared to, say, a coach or something like that. So can you talk about that a little bit? Christine Van Horn Sure. Life coach and a mentor are very similar. So for people that I've been talking with, I say use whichever term you relate to the most. So I did not realize we needed coaches until about a decade or so ago, and I thought coaches were really just for baseball games and football and things like that. And then I realized, hey, I need a life coach. And so it's very similar. A mentor is someone who's been there before. So the person that they're mentoring is not starting off at the basics. It's starting off at a higher level where that mentor has been. So the person who is a mentor or a life coach, they're teaching out of their own experience. So you gain all of that benefit. And that's the beauty of having a mentor, somebody who has been there before, they've experienced it, and they can teach you what they know. Gloria Grace Rand Yeah. And hopefully save you from making some of the mistakes, probably, that they made early on. Which is one of the reasons I like to coach people as well, is because I have made those mistakes. And we all do as we're getting started in anything new. But if we can then pass those lessons on to other people, it's so important. So what are the timeless truths that you talk about in your book, and how does that actually apply to people in business? Christine Van Horn So my timeless truths are considered character traits. So being able to guide others in my book, it's your children in character traits, and then the other is teaching them life skills. And I'll explain a little bit about what that is. And then the last thing is really being the example for them. Now, that applies to children. And in my book, I'm really talking about nothing as formal as like, a life coach. It's more like parents and grandparents teaching their children and grandchildren. So it's a little more informal. And I guess that's another difference between a coach and a mentor. But in business, it really still all applies. You can be mentoring or guiding people that you work with or who work for you on character traits. You can teach them. Do not gossip. Don't take something that's not yours, even if it's just something simple. I learned a lesson when I was young and it was just I wanted to always pick up like a loose paperclip and instead of putting it like in a common area, I put it on my desk. And as I got older, I thought, no, that's stealing, that wasn't mine. Even if it's still being used in business, that was not something given to me. And so some things like that, that are simple, you could really just to teach to those that you are with and then being the example, being the example because people will follow what leaders do, whether you're a parent or you're a supervisor, those that are your supervisor, they're going to follow what you do. So you've got to be that same example for them. Gloria Grace Rand Absolutely. And it really does make sense because when you're in a position of leadership, if you want people to be able to be good employees, for instance, you want them to be able to provide good service for your customers and your clients. And if they're just running amok and not taking care of the company, in a sense, then you're going to have problems. And it does start from the top, doesn't it? I think that leadership has to start at the top. Christine Van Horn It really does. Yeah. If you're the leader, director, executive of a company, you have got to be on your toes because people will watch. You can't tell them don't do this or don't do that, and then you go ahead and do it. They're not going to follow you. So if you have a policy to do something one way and you do it the other, you can be assured that everybody else is going to follow what you do and not the written rule and things will not be done correctly. Gloria Grace Rand Now, I can see that having a mentor can certainly help you in being able to, as we talked about, to be able to avoid maybe some of the missteps that someone made at the beginning. But does being a mentor benefit the mentor as opposed to the mentee? And how can it? Christine Van Horn Well, it really does because if you're teaching someone how to do something, you need to make sure you're really doing it yourself....