Mentor Profile for Josh Easton

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Mentor Profile for Josh Easton

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Section I. Prerequisites:
Mentors must minister out of a vital relationship with God, others, and themselves. Therefore, any mentor under consideration needs to exhibit the following essential characteristics as a way of life. These qualities are preeminent in successful mentors and align with biblical standards (e.g., 1 Timothy 3:1-13, Titus 1:5-9).
Mature Disciple
Committed to being transformed into the image of Christ and obedience to the Greatest Commandments and Great Commission.
Loves God with wholehearted intentionality
Leans into humility and adopts a posture of learning
Applies scripture to daily life
Believes in the power of prayer
Gives time, treasure, and talent generously
Fosters relationships with people who don’t yet know Christ
Makes disciples who make disciples
Seasoned Christian Leadership
Guiding others to follow Christ as one instructs in scripture and imitates Christ.
Holds a full understanding of the challenges of Christian leadership
Develops leaders who develop leaders
Practices actively listening to the Holy Spirit
Acts on Spirit provided discernment
Actively applies the Word of God to their own life and encourages others to do the same
Loves and supports the Church
Healthy Lifestyle
Prioritising physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.
Engages routinely in self-care practices
Has a personal mentor/supervisor
Keeps healthy boundaries
Establishes a work-life/personal life balance
Practices spiritual disciplines
Develops self-awareness
Section II. Behavioural Competencies:
The ten categories of behavioral competencies facilitate the mentoring process. They flow out of the prerequisites of Seasoned Christian Leadership and qualities of the Healthy Christian Leader Profile. Each competency has a set of behavioral expressions that clarify its scope
Building Relational Bond
Establishing trust, safe environment, and support.
Demonstrates empathy, care, and compassion
Is motivated to know, encourage, and help others
Discloses personal information with appropriate vulnerability
Asks tough questions disarmingly
Listens attentively
Uses humor judiciously
Manages personal and professional boundaries
Establishes a conversational tone
Allows necessary availability beyond regular sessions
Respects cultural differences
Investigative Inquiry and Discernment
Gaining a deep understanding of mentees and their context, relationships, and circumstances.
Asks probing questions to elicit honest and relevant information
Extracts unmentioned facts
Helps to build a clear picture of current realities
Determines valid spiritual and personal implications
Challenges erroneous spiritual and personal implications
Ascertains how God is speaking to the mentee in the circumstances
Identifies key areas for growth
Retains humility in curiosity
Catalysing Self-Reflection
Guiding mentees to honestly look at themselves, embrace who they really are and what needs to change to move in a healthy direction.
Connects spiritual, physical, emotional, and relational aspects of life
Reframes perspectives of self and circumstances
Challenges questionable view of self
Affirms a secure identity in Christ
Asks probing questions to elicit deep personal truths
Shares provocative narratives, stories, and metaphors
Challenging and Confronting
Addressing tough issues that need to be acknowledged, embraced, and dealt with.
Insists on hard and uncomfortable conversations
Identifies unbiblical behaviours and attitudes
Corrects unbiblical behaviours and attitudes
Clarifies discrepancies in words and deeds
Helps mentees to move past their fears
Urges them to focus their energies and efforts
Overcomes mentor’s own discomfort to engage in difficult conversations
Ensures a theologically sound view of God
Empowering Transformative Action
Initiating and facilitating movement toward the mentee’s greater health and well-being.
Assists in generating options for a preferred future
Helps to set relevant, measurable, and achievable goals
Celebrates milestones along the way
Facilitates midcourse corrections and recovery from setbacks
Holds mentees accountable to attaining goals
Offers constructive and timely feedback
Guides learning from experience to gain insight
Supports mentee to maintain safety
Keeping It Spiritual
Assuring the mentoring relationship and transformation of the mentee is Christ-centered.
Anchors and re-anchors mentees’ identity in Christ
Promotes the work of the Holy Spirit in the mentee
Nurtures the work of the Holy Spirit in the mentorship relationship
Fosters biblical principles in the problem solving
Prays for mentorship, discernment, and direction
Evaluating Process
Analysing the mentoring dynamic for effectiveness and making adjustments for greater positive outcomes.
Pauses to unpack the activities and dynamics of sessions
Identifies strengths and weaknesses in methodologies
Breaks down problems to their core components
Elicits relevant feedback from the mentee
Invites feedback from peers, peer mentors, and/or supervisors
Assesses effectiveness of mentoring relationships
Revises or innovates methodologies to achieve better outcomes
Navigates transition and closure of mentoring relationships successfully
Principled in Practice
Adhering to core values and beliefs rooted in sound doctrine.
Handles confidential information judiciously
Maintains integrity
Treats mentees with respect and dignity
Navigates conflicting interests
Adheres to professional ethics
Acts always in the best interest of the mentee
Negotiates parameters of the mentoring relationship
Committed to professional development and performance review
Risk Management
Neutralising potential harm and danger to self, mentees, and others.
Reports as legally mandated
Maintains liability coverage
Stays within the boundaries of mentoring competence
Makes referrals as necessary
Avoids conflicts of interest
Explains the limits of confidentiality
Administration
Organising and planning to ensure a sound execution and flow of work.
Develops and implements systems for record-keeping
Follows up on tasks and commitments in a timely manner
Creates contracts that clearly communicate the details of the mentoring relationship
Addresses financial matters in a straightforward and honest manner
Secures mentees signatures on contracts
Arrives to appointments on time and prepared
Maintains a workable personal schedule
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The Profile of a Healthy Christian Leader helps leaders by taking a holistic health snapshot. It gives you feedback about who you really are and points out what you might overlook or misunderstand about yourself.

You'll identify both your personal strengths and areas for personal growth and development.

Upon completion of this assessment, you should have a more accurate and realistic picture of yourself. This picture can help you become healthier and navigate your leadership responsibilities.