Why be a Thought Leaders Mentor?
1 - STUDY
The first step to being a mentor is to study the Thought Leaders Intellectual Property in depth. Our mentor activities like monthly webinars, quarterly development days and annual mentor retreats all work towards this goal.
2 - TEACH
Sometimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. They say the best way to read a non-fiction book is to do so imagining you had to explain concepts within to someone else. There is something about the teaching perspective that deepens understanding. Teach the IP and learn it at a whole new level.
3 - EXTEND
While it's true that Matt Church created the core intellectual platform that is Thought Leaders, it is not true to say that is all there is to it. Mentors all declare and work on a 'masters' of sorts around helping clever people be commercially smart. By extending the core IP, mentors leave a legacy and a mark on our first class curriculum.
4 - ENHANCE
The better the ideas become, the more people will pay for them. By being a mentor, you get to make your own ideas fly. By applying your experience of the TLIP to your own IP, there is a direct lift in the quality and substance of what you know and teach. If it’s true that you become the people you associate with, then it also stands that your ideas are influenced by the ideas they hang around.
5 - EARN
The direct revenue opportunities that arise from being a Thought Leaders Mentor are fabulous. The 12 profitable projects created as delivery mechanism for the core TLIP are well considered, tried and tested and ready to go. It’s like a top notch business coaching system for experts. Unlike buying a franchise though, this system encourages and depends on your being a successful Thought Leader in your own right. The more successful your personal brand becomes, the stronger your mentoring becomes.
6 - SCALE
There are times when being a solopreneur can lose you business. At times you need to play the game of business as if you were surrounded by a cast of 1000’s. As a Thought Leaders Mentor, you can. Sometimes it pays to be ‘Jo Bloggs from Thought Leaders!’ With personal business cards and email addresses you get to scale when required without the infrastructure costs or headaches.
7 - SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH M@
Matt Church heads up our Mentor Faculty right now and still supervises the roll out of the exceptional Thought Leaders Core Intellectual Property. He spends time directly with the mentor community shepherding new mentors through the curriculum and inspiring existing mentors to new heights. It is for this reason alone that many people apply to become mentors.
8 - EXPECTATIONS
As a Mentor, you are held to a high set of performance expectations. This is inspirational if you approach it with the right level of detachment. We support you to achieve excellence, not only is the delivery of the Thought Leaders Intellectual Property, but also the creation of your own. In short, we want the best for you and will support you to achieve it. We do so without comparison to others. Plenty of KPI’s, a high expectation performance for each mentor to do their personal best in all they do.
9 - PARTICIPATION
Due to the flat open source nature of how we operate organizationally, there is plenty of opportunity to participate in various projects. Organized around our three meme’s these will have commercial benefit, will inspire you and elevate all.
10 - CERTIFICATION
Just like getting a certificate as a business coach from a reputable brand you are welcome to display and use the Mentor Certificate from Thought Leaders. This is yours from the moment you graduate from the 4-day Mentor Induction Program.
11 - POSITIONING
Our Community is well established on a range of on and offline platforms. Being recognized as a Thought Leaders Mentor is a clear positioning opportunity for you. It’s for this reason that mentors are supported so strongly to keep raising their game from a leadership perspective commercially and cognitively.
12 - NETWORK
As active leadership nodes in our vibrant community, you are positioned at the centre of what we do. In essence, you become the ‘ripple’ element in our community. Mentors build, lead and derive benefit from the Thought Leaders network they grow.
13 - LEVERAGE
As you would know, central to the Million Dollar Expert game is the idea of generating revenue through a combination of the six delivery modes. By delivering TLIP in Trainer - Mentor modes you get to niche your IP in Speaker - Author modes for greater leverage.
14 - SYNDICATES
Build a panel of experts through the mentor network that you can deploy to help make a difference to clients. A round-table of experts who share common purpose is a dynamic and powerful offering to the market.
15 - STRETCH
The mentor community drive each other to new heights all the time. It is a stretch to be in a room full of people where someone else is often the smartest person at the table. When it’s usually you, there is a contrasting benefit to being put under the stretch. Simply being in association with other great thinkers will stretch you to grow and open your mind.
16 - SHINE
You get the chance to shine when you are a thought leader. You get to help others shine when you are a mentor. One is temporary, the other lasts forever. You increase your eminence when you elevate others.
17 - INSPIRE
You get to be a role model as a mentor and as such, you get to inspire greatness in others. This is perhaps the very cleanest definition of leadership: to see greatness in others and facilitate it’s emergence.
18 - TRIBE
For many, becoming a Thought Leaders Mentor is like finding your tribe. You get to play with some seriously smart, commercially successful individuals who come together to help clever people become commercially smart. It’s a rare and special community.