Mentoring is an active relationship between a mentor (someone with greater experience and expertise) and a mentee for the purpose of personal and professional development. Less structured than management coaching, the mentoring relationship is a learning partnership of mutual respect in which the employee learns from the expertise and experience of the senior person. The mentor must be able to counsel, guide, and teach in a way that is helpful to the employee. Although the mentee is the identified learner in this relationship, both will learn when the mentoring is done well.
Mentors can provide immediate and tailored learning opportunities for the employee—especially helpful for new employees at all levels in an organization who are ...
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