Mentoring Tips

12 strategies for Effective Mentoring

1. Encourage your protégé to approach life and goals with enthusiasm and to be accepting of self and others.
2. Encourage your protégé to examine beliefs and ideals in an effort to establish personal values and goals.
3. You and your protégé keep an open mind to ideas.
4. The interactions between you and your protégé should be situations of sharing, caring, and empathizing.
5. Encourage your protégé to use a creative problem solving process.
6. Encourage your protégé to use a creative problem solving process.
7. Encourage your protégé to be an independent thinker.
8. Encourage your protégé to recognize individual strengths and uniqueness and build on them.
9. Assist with developing self-confidence.
10. Stress that an individual be aware of their environment, be intuitive, be problem sensitive, and be ready to make the most of opportunities.
11. Encourage your protégé to be an active participant, not a spectator. Share the importance of being flexible and adaptable in attitudes and actions, looking for alternatives, and seeing situations/persons from different perspectives.

Adopted form “Mentoring: A renaissance of apprenticeship" The Journal of Creative Behavior