SHAPE (Strategically Helping Another Person Elevate)

SHAPE is the ultimate guide to mastering the art of mentoring. Created for mentors and mentees, SHAPE presents powerful, real-life mentoring experiences and offers valuable resources, tips, and best practices to help mentors effectively navigate their mentoring journey. SHAPE answers critical and often-overlooked questions about how to be an effective mentor. By applying the lessons learned in this guide, mentors will gain the tools to provide strategic guidance and direction, helping their mentees execute their goals more efficiently and live their best lives.

SHAPE instructs mentors on how to develop and nurture a deeper, more trusting relationship with their mentees. Mentors are charged with helping others succeed, and SHAPE demonstrates how to ensure success as a natural part of this journey. SHAPE offers self-discovery, self-empowerment and personal fulfillment to both mentors and mentees. Are you ready to transform lives? Let's get into SHAPE!

Knowledge is power. Sharing that knowledge with others is power redefined. Do you have what it takes to SHAPE the life of someone else? Mentoring is more than showing up, having a conversation, and musing over your achievements. A true mentor dedicates their time, resources, and unique lens with their mentee, keeping one goal in mind: to guide his or her mentee to unleash the greatness within.

SHAPE measures success using many different metrics. Perhaps none is more significant than sharing a roadmap paired with the strength and courage to confidently express both what one knows and what one may not know. Strategically Helping Another Person Elevate gets to the heart of mentoring and the necessary skills to be a great mentor. The stories provided herein reveal the hits and misses that successful leaders face in their mentoring journey. These highly insightful examples powerfully depict the costs and rewards of being a great mentor. Seasoned and novice mentors alike will quickly discover new ways to connect and productively engage with their mentees. Use this timely guide to SHAPE your mentee into a great leader rather than just another good follower. We know mentors everywhere will enjoy getting into SHAPE, just as we have!

How will you Strategically Help Another Person Elevate?

Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune Crime and Justice reporter.

SHAPE is a must-read for every mentor, mentee, or company seeking to enhance, motivate, and drive professional and personal development in others.

Downer-McCoy shares personal experiences to highlight how mentoring helped shape her understanding of the world and cemented her place in it. Her work includes thoughtful exercises to help the reader pinpoint a mentee's needs, as well as question themselves while providing an internal method of checks and balances to ensure the greatest outcome for all involved. The stories will motivate, inspire, and encourage the reader to make real changes.