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mentoring Tag

I have been working on a course about mentoring for our team. I am designing the course to assist our current team members in developing new employees and student workers, while increasing growth and engagement for our existing front-line employees and supervisors. One staff member told me that he sees his mentoring role as his main contribution to our team. When asked “Why?” he said, “I may be training someone who goes on to change the world....

Pat told me he may never become a supervisor on the team, rather he sees his biggest contribution to the team is as a mentor for the new hires. He said, “I see myself training my new boss one day.” Mentoring, or training/advising someone else, especially younger colleagues has a long tradition throughout human history. Pat may be right, for it is common for the mentee to eventually be the boss/leader of the colleagues who train...