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Mentoring Relationship
- Contact and response times: Who contacts whom? How? What are acceptable response times?
- Meetings: Where, when, and how often? Are you meeting in person? On the phone? Virtually?
- Confidentiality: What’s shareable and what isn’t?
- Focus: What are the parameters of the mentoring? What’s in and out of bounds?
- Feedback: What are the expectations around giving and receiving feedback?
- Goals and accountability: What would each party want from this experience? How does the mentee want the mentor to hold her accountable? How does the mentor want the mentee to hold her accountable?
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Qualities to Look for in a Mentor
- A desire to develop and help others. A good mentor is sincerely interested in helping someone else without any “official” reward. Good mentors do it because they genuinely want to see someone else succeed.
- The ability and availability to commit real time and energy to the me...
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Importance of Mentoring
The benefits of mentoring are myriad. For individuals, studies show that good mentoring can lead to greater career success, including promotions, raises, and increased opportunit...
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Mentees Need to BE
- Committed to expanding their capabilities and focused on achieving professional results.
- Clear about their career goals, needs, and wants.
- Willing to ask for help, show vulnerability, and explore diff...
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Qualities to Look for in a Mentor
- A willingness to share failures and personal experiences. Mentors need to share both their “how I did it right” and their “how I did it wrong” stories.
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What Makes a Good Mentee
Just as there are specific characteristics of a successful mentor, there are attributes and sensibilities that make for a good mentee. This is important, because mentees must remember that mentors are doing this from the goodness of their heart, so being a good mentee is the best way to ensure th...
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What Makes A Good Mentor
A good mentor needs to be more than just a successful individual. A good mentor must have the disposition and desire to develop other people. It requires a willingness to reflect on and share one’s own experiences, including one’s failures. Great mentors must be able to both “talk the talk” and “...
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