My Mentor and Me
Summary
Mentoring offers a very special learning opportunity. A mentoring partnership is an agreement between two people in which they share experiences and expertise to facilitate personal and professional growth. Mentoring provides an approach for less experienced employees to learn and hone skills that will make them more effective. A mentor can help a protégé understand the factors affecting decision making, address problem solving, handle interpersonal relationships, develop leadership abilities, address technical deficiencies, and suggest new communication skills that could be developed. Mentoring can significantly improve an employee's personal interactions, which, in turn, can incrementally improve the employee's chances for a successful career. The strategy that takes advantage of content that has been recently published in a newspaper, magazine, or blog as a “discussion starter” between mentors and protégés.