The Mentoring Relationship

Mentoring is a partnership of peers working together and freely contributing to the discussion. It involves highly personal interactions based on the needs of the protégée and influenced by the personal styles of each partner; therefore, it is not possible to rigidly specify roles. However, research has shown that effective mentoring relationships are characterized by certain intertwined attributes.

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