{"id":15397,"date":"2020-10-20T15:44:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T19:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/2020\/10\/20\/the-bigger-the-vision-the-bigger-the-need-for-enrollment\/"},"modified":"2021-04-25T17:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T21:11:53","slug":"the-bigger-the-vision-the-bigger-the-need-for-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mentordiscoverinspire.org\/the-bigger-the-vision-the-bigger-the-need-for-enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bigger the Vision the Bigger the Need for Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
James Anthony Ellis<\/strong> 
Legacy Magazine Editor<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So you wanna make something happen huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Is that what you’re saying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is it you want to create, build, manifest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depending on the size of this creation of yours, you will be facing the very real endeavor of “enrollment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dictionary defines the noun “enrollment” as “the action of enrolling or being enrolled.” Well, that barely helps. Defining “enroll” we get a verb “to recruit someone to perform a service: a campaign to enroll more people.” Getting somewhere now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The way the organization Mentor Discover Inspire has held enrollment is a bit broader. Here we speak of engaging with another, connecting with him or her, and extending an invitation to participate in an event, a team meeting, a training, a community service activity or any endeavor that could serve them in the process. In this way, enrollment becomes a way of bringing another into alignment with a vision of ours, and allowing that person’s engagement to be an uplift for him or her as an individual, and to the larger organization as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In basic terms – you stick your neck out there with an idea and see if there are any takers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the process, the one extending an invitation may go through various barriers in extending oneself. The barriers come in many forms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n