My tweets from the conference

For those not on Twitter, here were my 'real time' Ah-Ha! moments at the conference.  Strangely, the conference had no hashtag set up. Several of us simply used #unmmc12.

• "Understand your stand, then seek to understand" C Pettit
• Closing style drives trust & comfort in a mentoring relstionship
• "People do not resist change, per se. They resist loss." Dr M Searby
• We need to acknowledge the sense of loss that comes with any kind of change
• Success = know outcome, reasons, plan ACT...but beginning is most important
• If one can't express an idea, one should pass selling it to someone who can...doesnt dimish credit, keeps brand clean
• The kind/strength/nature of relationships around you contributes to success
• The common variable for those who succeed against the odds is "a mentor" 
• omg "mentoring" is Not a buzz word to represent daily/normal need to ask questions and find team solutions to immediate need!
• Framework for online mentoring needs prior face/face relationship and/or face tech (webcam etc)
• Coaching is for success today; mentoring is for success tomorrow
• We learn best when we perceive no threat.
• Nothing is less inspiring than someone telling you how smart they are and how vast their references vs sharing their smarts
• Great conversation on mentoring in business. real world mentoring is messy! 
• "sageliness w/in & kingliness w/out" is Confucious view of mentoring 
• The issue of direct mgr as mentor is Not nepotism but TMI, confidentiality & support past immediate job/duties
• Outdated statement? "women need mentors to teach acceptable behaviours in male world"
• Cultural/social/emotional intelligence in mentoring - does MIT Center for Collective Intelligence have any research on this?
• Are folks worried about "liability" if they mentor? (is this like good samaritan worried about being sued?)
• How many business mentors think about learning styles when mentoring? should they?
• Mentors choose mentees pick those like themselves...bad for women given it's men above the glass ceiling?
• Mentoring = your actions speak so loudly I can't hear what you're saying
• Road a yellow schoolbus into 1st morn of the mentoring conference. Like going to camp but with more suits and less singing.
• Mentoring is listening.