chapter 2
What’s different about a mentoring relationship?
A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself, and then helps bring that out
Bob Proctor
What are recognisable characteristics of a mentor relationship?
Since you first read a good book, watched a movie or listened to a classic fable told by an expert storyteller, you have an instinctive ability to spot a mentor relationship because the features of those follow common themes. To help us explore this further, let’s remind ourselves of some classic mentor relationships – see Table 2.1.
Table 2.1 Classic mentor relationships
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