The document discusses the importance of mentoring, defining it as a trusted guidance relationship that can help individuals recognize their potential. It highlights five types of mentors one might need in their life and shares stories from various professionals about their mentoring experiences. Additionally, it includes a panel discussion and resources for implementing mentoring structures and tools.

1. Perspectives on Mentoring:
Selected Stories

2. The greatest good you can do for another is not
just to share your riches but to reveal to him
his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

3. Outline
● What Mentoring Is and Why It Matters
● Our Mentoring Stories
● Panel Discussion

4. Part One
What Mentoring Is and Why It Matters

5. Definition
1 (capitalized): a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus'
son Telemachus
2a: a trusted counselor or guide
a mentor who, because he is detached and disinterested,
can hold up a mirror to us
— P. W. Keve
b: TUTOR, COACH
The student sought a mentor in chemistry.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mentor

6. 5 Types of Mentors
1. The master of craft
2. The champion of your cause
3. The copilot
4. The anchor
5. The reverse mentor
The 5 types of mentors you need in your life,Julia Fawal
https://ideas.ted.com/the-5-types-of-mentors-you-need-in-your-life/

7. Structures and Tools
● Goals
● Formal vs. informal
● Frequency
● Distance mentoring tools

8. Part Two
Our Mentoring Stories

9. Ben
● ISO Program Manager
● Rochester Institute of Technology
● Rochester New York
● Cyber Security/Higher Education
● Travel! Anywhere!

10. Christine ● Documentation Manager at
Cityworks
● Work in software industry
● Live in a suburb of Salt Lake
City, Utah
● Visit my family

11. Natalie ● Looking for new opportunities
● Enterprise software
● Live in New Jersey
● Go to the Jersey Shore

12. Carrie ● Documentation manager at
Nextworld
● Work in Enterprise software
(integration and ERP)
● Live in Denver, CO
● Go to a workout class

13. Panel Discussion

14. Resources
● Local
● International