A Mentor facilitates exposure to new ideas and interests, new opportunities for professional challenges, personal satisfaction in sharing your career experience, knowledge and skills, opportunity to reflect on your own practices, opportunity to practice developmental behaviors outside own direct line responsibilities, learning from the shared interactions with mentees.x
Mentor is expected to:
| DO | DON'T |
| Listen actively | Fix the probelm |
| Support and facilitate networking and brokering | Take credit |
| Teach by example | Threaten, coerce or use undue influence |
| Be aware of role conflict | Lose critical oversight - allow friendship to cloud judgment |
| Encourage and motivate mentee to move beyond their comfort zone | Condemn (mistakes or lack of agreement are not career altering disasters |
| Promote independence | |
| Promote balance | |
| Rejoice in success and convey your joy | |
| Encourage reciprocity |
