Chapter 15 The future of mentoring

DOI: 10.4324/9781003163862-15

Introduction

Successful individuals often attribute part of their success to mentors. Some professions are designed such that mentoring relationships are at the core of how the profession perpetuates itself – for example, graduate education. You may be a mentoring champion who believes that mentoring programs will create an individual or organizational benefit. Perhaps mentoring is seen as part of your organization’s people development strategy. Or you may have inherited a mentoring program and were told to run it.

Mentoring programs are structured experiences that are supported by the organization to achieve an organizational objective. These programs exist to connect protégés ...

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