What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to hear. When you are able to be humbly honest with someone about a situation with which you have personal experience-even if you risk angering or hurting that person-you are offering the most valuable gift of all.
John WoodenI also wanted my basketball players to know that I really cared about them. Forget basketball; as a person, I cared, I cared about their family.
John WoodenPeople want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.
John Wooden