You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 63 airing on November 12th, 2012

produced by Innovate Learning Maximizing Human Potential. learning, maximizing human potential.

Welcome to coaching for leaders.

This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop others.

Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, improving your leadership skills will drive your success and

and most importantly the success of others.

This week's topic practical advice for mentoring.

Well hello everyone and welcome back for another episode of coaching for leaders. I'm your host and my name is Dave Stahoviac. We're

broadcasting to you from our studio out here in Orange County, California.

And thank you if you are tuning into this show for the very first time.

This is the show for people who want to become more effective leaders by turning the tables and looking in the

mirror and focusing on ourselves first so we can become more effective at what we do and in turn be more effective at being able

to lead, influence, engage, develop others, all of the things that we are supposed to be doing

as leaders.

So if that is important to you, you are in the right place.

And today's show is going to be looking at how we can take mentoring to do that even more effectively and use the tool of mentoring in practical ways.

Now you may remember if you're thinking, hi, gosh, it seems like we just did an episode on mentoring.

And you'd be right we absolutely did so you may

remember back in episode number let's see it was number 61 am I right on that I hope so

yep the number 61 was Stella Cohen, our guest to talk to us about how to start a mentoring program.

And today I'm so pleased to welcome one of our listeners, Kurt Olabakh, who I'll introduce here in a moment.

Kurt and I sat down about a week and a half ago and talked about mentoring in detail and I asked her to spend some time with me to do a follow-up

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