Eight Strategies for Mentoring Success
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- 2. Mentor Assumptions Mentee Assumptions
- 3. How do you learn best? What are the implications for your mentoring relationship?
- 5. What are some of the “what ifs”? What process can you put in place to address to prevent them from becoming stumbling blocks?
- 6. Feedback Support Vision Challenge
- 7. Asking Giving Acting Receiving Feedback Accepting
- 8. Evaluate how you use your time. What do you need to do more of? What do you need to do less of?
- 9. How are we doing?