A young lawyer once accused the elderly of failing to help the young while collecting prominent legal figures. After the meeting, an elderly lawyer presented him with his free card and promised to help him.
He was in the elder statesman’s office the next day with the expectation of receiving referrals and communications, but instead the elderly lawyer invited him to lunch and walked with him to a nearby restaurant. This ritual of lunch and walk was repeated every day for a whole week, at which time the young lawyer was disappointed and frustrated that he had not received any help yet, as for him walking and eating was a waste of time. time.
But to his surprise the following week, he started getting calls from a new client and things changed for him. Ninety-eight percent of new clients said they came to him because they heard he was close to the elderly lawyer. That’s when he realized the importance of walking and lunch. When he called the elderly lawyer to discuss his findings, the elderly lawyer was not surprised, but only said, “I did it to give you an impact and teach you the importance of mentoring.” If walking and having lunch with me for a week could give you this result, can you imagine where you would have been if you had worked under me for a while before you started on your own.
The world is in dire need of mentors and role models.
The guide is…
role model
A wise and reliable teacher, guide and friend
A wise and enlightened observer or advisor
Who was to where you want to be
A mentor is not a tormentor but a protector. Each person needs to have mentors in different areas of life, and also needs to be a mentor to others. For posterity, we need guidance to raise successors.
Success without successors is successful failure and succession in the family chain will not be the best in the twenty-first century. Check out all the multinationals and companies that have survived over decades and generations; And you will realize that the succession has crossed the family line.
If what you’re building can’t keep up with you, you’re just into the hobby. And if so, everything you build dies with you.
Guidance for succession planning
For the sake of posterity, you have to go through a process that helps produce a successor.
1. Find the individuals or group that you feel you can influence, trust, and deliver to them.
Jesus chose his disciples. They were willing and followed.
Choose people who are willing and able.
2. Lead by example. Show them what you want them to know and what you expect them to know and do. As you do this, they are watching and learning because some things are being discovered and not taught.
3. Do things with them. You choose them. You are driving and they are watching and now. You do it with them.
Have them participate in a deeper dimension in the management of the organization and in decision-making.
4. Let them do things while you watch. The final step would be to delegate things to them and watch them do it. As they do this, you motivate, encourage and guide them. Delegate talks. Delegation of responsibilities. Delegation of authority.
Do it while you are still around and make sure they have the ability. Looking for a guide. Be a guide. A plan for future generations. Let the flow continue through the ages.