What’s your style? The essential mentor; the manager-mentor; the executive mentor; the all-inspiring mentor

How this chapter will help you

Defining your style as mentor will allow you to make a better contribution to the process of mentoring and to be more efficient. This chapter will help you understand the different styles and levels possible and practicable for a mentor.

The ideal mentor practises situational mentoring and, like the mentee, takes part in a process of learning and change in the engagement with the other person. The way you embody the role of mentor classifies your type. The profile of your mentee actually determines your own attitude and level of intervention as mentor. Similarly, your own experience and position within the organisation ...

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