The Mentor’s Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 6 Step 3: Recruit and prepare the right participants

DOI: 10.4324/9781003163862-6

The more we get together the happier we’ll be.

For your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends. (The More We Get Together, traditional British folksong)

Introduction

You are responsible for facilitating how people “get together” as the British folksong quoted here suggests. Through most of human history, how we get together has been determined by our proximity, or physical location, to one another. Social psychologists tell us being near someone is the greatest predictor of whom we will marry, choose as friends, or mentor. Mentoring programs facilitate a matching process by making connections that might otherwise take longer to happen ...