Mentoring Strategies

Guide the Development of Pesky Routine Job Skills

• Setting goals
• Prioritizing tasks
• Managing time
• Resolving conflicts

Help Each Mentee Persist in the Face of Difficulty

• Open the discussion of difficult issues
• Help each mentee identify unproductive strategies
• Use the least amount of carefully stated feedback to give each mentee an opportunity to problem solve
• Share your own experiences with difficult situations when appropriate
• Elicit alternative strategies
• Facilitate learning from difficult experiences and mistakes
• Express your confidence in each protégée's ability to succeed