CHAPTER 4

Mentor Me, Please!

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Though a common refrain seems to be that millennials prefer to go rogue and abandon notions of acting as “company men (and women),” research indicates, and anecdotal evidence supports, that millennials actually display strong preference for connections, mentoring, and relationships at work. They are comfortable with and used to engaging with parents, teachers, coaches, and others around their personal and professional development in ways that are unprecedented. They may even view their supervisors as “workplace parents”152 with the related desire ...

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