101 Ways to Make Learning Active Beyond the Classroom

My Mentor and Me

Mentoring offers a very special learning opportunity. A mentoring partnership is an agreement between two people in which they share experiences and expertise to facilitate personal and professional growth. Mentoring provides an approach for less experienced employees to learn and hone skills that will make them more effective. Usually, these skills are not job-related skills; rather, they are skills that help the protégé understand the organization's rationale for changes, relationships between departments, and how to overcome negative behaviors that may prevent an employee from being promoted. A mentor can help a protégé understand the factors affecting decision making, address problem solving, handle interpersonal relationships, ...