What makes an effective mentor: success factors, attitudes and communication

How this chapter will help you

To be an effective mentor, you need to be trained. This chapter will help you understand the position to adopt to succeed as a mentor. You will learn your key success factors.

We have looked at the role of mentors in a collective mentoring programme. So we will now look at the role and attitude of mentors in an individual programme. Let us first consider all the participants in a mentoring programme and the relational dynamic established among these various participants.

Relational dynamic of participants in an individual mentoring programme

This dynamic creates a system that generates and develops collective ...

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