Courses are offered at the Grand Portage Lodge and Casino. Mentoring is a supportive relationship between an individual and a student to facilitate the student's educational, business, social and personal growth and development. Mentors advise, coach, counsel, teach, and model successful behaviors. These roles vary depending on the abilities and the needs of the student. There is no single profile of who can or should be a mentor.
Mentors tend to be people who extend themselves for others.
Mentoring relationships are different from personal relationships because they are professional in nature. Effective mentoring is a special contract between mentor and mentee that requires two-way participation. Regardless of the mentor's motivation and skill, his or her impact on the mentee will be largely determined by the prospective mentee's willingness and desire to participate. Healthy mentoring relationships are evolutionary rather than static in nature. The perceptions of both members of the relationship evolve as the mentee's performance evolves to new levels of competence under the mentor's guidance and support.