Modern Mentoring

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Don’t Put Mentoring in a Box

If you want to do more with mentoring, you’ve opened the right book. If you dream of broadening the impact that mentoring can have on your organization or about creating a culture in which learning from others is an embedded behavior, my hope is that you will find your answers on these pages.

That said, before we can embark on creating a modern mentoring culture, we must first take mentoring out of the metaphorical box where corporations have placed it, and instead begin to practice it in a vastly different way. To help explain why we must take mentoring in a new, more meaningful direction, let me tell you a story.

During the time I spent doing leadership development work in the nonprofit world, I read Robert Clinton ...