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Published by Tim Kidson on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 1:00 am

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Everyone that operates at a high level in whatever sphere needs a mentor. This is certainly true in business. Some of the very best mentors are where you want to be; they are actually doing what you want to do. Therefore they stretch you into new areas of competence.

I was the keynote speaker at a national convention this week and my mentor had advised me to engage the audience more than I had planned for this particular event. On the day however, for one reason or another, I bottled it.

Towards the end of the day, the event planner gave me some positive feedback but then he said, “You needed to do more with the audience.”