Tips on Selecting a Mentor and Being a Mentee/Protege
- Identify role models that exhibit personal and professional characteristics that you admire.
- When you do find your target Mentor, you may want to initially make contact without specifically demanding they
become your Mentor. Let them get to know you and your goals. Most successful people who describe their Mentors
do not describe formalized corporate mentoring programs but rather kind individuals they encountered throughout
their career who offered up guidance at critical junctures.
- Be open to mentoring advice from all sources, including your Secretary and Staff.
- Be considerate of a potential Mentor’s time and availability.
- Be gracious and thankful.
- Evaluate the Mentor’s advice as it applies to your goals and ideals.
- Have reasonable expectations of the relationship/advice. You still have to do the work yourself.
- Even the worst Mentor has something to teach you.
- Be the Mentor to others that you would like to have for yourself. Articulating your pearls of wisdom for others
reinforces those messages for yourself.
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