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Last week, we talked about inviting others into your development in the form of mentorships. When you hear “mentorship,” what probably comes to mind is a relationship between two people in different career stages. This is a valuable and essential type of mentorship, but it’s not the only one; peer mentors offer a network of support based on diverse lived experience. In other words, they’re in the same boat as you, but they’ve traversed different seas.

It’s tempting to view your development as a leader as a solo journey you can embark on, achieve, and triumphantly walk away from, with the pride of having pulled up your proverbial bootstraps and done it all on your own. After all, we live in a society that praises individualism. That doesn’t make it right—and in the case of leadership growth, I’m going to advocate this month for the opposite: unabashedly inviting others into your development.