What makes a good mentor?
- Define what … your mentee should get out of a mentoring relationship with you and why you want to mentor. This will enable you to set expectations, agree on the goals of the relationship and maintain healthy boundaries that respect the relationship.
- Mentoring is not a one-sided conversation; it is an open discussion that encourages thoughts, questions and concerns.
- Patience is an essential virtue of an effective mentor. Not everyone is going to grasp everything as quickly as you did, and not everyone is going to find your working method to be the most effective method for them.