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by Rik Nemanick, Ph.D. January is National Mentoring Month. It is a great time for you to reflect on what roles mentors have played in your career and your life as well as think about how you can “pay it forward” and share mentoring with someone else. Mentoring is typically thought of as a one-way process, which primarily benefits the protégé. However, mentors often benefit from their partnerships, with many mentors learning from a protégé’s experience and perspective. If you are serving as a mentor right now, reflect on what you have learned from your protégé and recognize the “reverse”... Read More

by Rik Nemanick, Ph.D. This post is the sixth in the series The Mentor’s Way, a set of guides for mentors who want to bring out the best in others. Up until this point, most of the Rules of Mentoring have focused on building trust with a protégé and exploring Hands, Head, and Heart issues. As you saw in the last post (Rule #5: Balance Empathy and Action), the power of mentoring is realized when the protégé begins to take action based on the mentoring conversations. This step, however, can be a stumbling block for many protégés, as the challenges they are... Read More