Mentoring Lessons- Delegate, Get More Done.నమూనా

Give Fishing Rods

There’s a well-known quote:
“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Our agency provided high-quality training in sport and play for many years. We wanted our trainings to transform not just inform. After one session, a team member stretched our thinking with his honest assessment:“That was amazing, but most trainers can’t do what we are doing.” That stopped us in our tracks.

A change was needed. The trainings had to become more multipliable.

We wanted people to experience a training and say, “That was great, and we could do this too!”

The shift required us to find new ways of training — alongside local leaders, while mentoring them. We trained in teams. We made everything active and easily contextualized. We used only what people could access locally — sometimes just rocks and trees.

This approach eventually led to the creation of a multiplication kit full of tools to serve children and teens through sport and play. Over the next decade, nearly a million leaders were trained.

After one such training, a young man immediately began sharing the resources in his region. He trained hundreds of others. He started right away — then developed a plan:“What would a month-long school look like?”
Each year for the past decade, he has gathered 20 or so children’s workers in his village as interns, using the sport and play resources. In doing so, he has created depth in workers and multiplied Sports ministry across every region of his country.

Scripture to Ponder–2 Timothy 2:2 (NIV)

“And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.”

Key Lesson:

I do, you watch. I do, you help. You do, I help. You do, I watch. You do, someone else watches.This is multiplication.