The document provides main tips for effective mentoring. It recommends assessing mentoring skills, setting goals with mentees, finding early success on projects, living professional standards of trust and respect, supporting mentee growth through feedback and advocacy, providing mutual feedback, and enjoying the mentoring process. Mentoring is described as a tool for personal development and career progress.

1. Mentoring
Main Tips
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2. Mentoring is a powerful personal
development and empowerment
tool.
It is an effective way of helping
people to progress in their careers.

3. Main Mentoring Tips

4. Assess your mentoring skills.
A mentoring skills inventory can
help you identify strengths and
weaknesses in your mentoring skills
and approach.

5. Start out right, with goal setting.
Taking time to appreciate and
understand your mentee's goals will
demonstrate your commitment to his
professional development and career
success.

6. Begin with the right project.
If you are serving both as mentor
and principal investigator, it is a
good idea to find the right project to
build your mentee's confidence with
some early success.

7. Live your professional standards.
Essential to an effective mentoring
relationship are the values of trust
and respect, the hallmarks of
integrity in any professional
relationship.

8. Seed your mentee's growth.
Supporting your mentee will include
providing him with information,
feedback on his progress, emotional
support, and advocacy as needed.

9. Provide feedback that can be heard.
Among the most difficult arts of
being a mentor is providing and
receiving feedback. Yes, feedback
should be mutual.

10. Enjoy the mentoring ride.
Mentoring is one of the joys of
working in a business that brings
considerable meaning to all that we
do.

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