Coaching - makes suggestions on effective actions. Sponsorship - can recommend the mentee to colleagues for special projects, jobs, or professional groups. Challenging Assignments - helps the mentee with different kinds of work activities. Protection - points out dangers and possible precautions. Meetings can revolve around particular issues or, especially at the beginning, can revolve around getting to know each other.
Mentors are volunteers.
In small groups, or together, participants identify characteristics in an ideal mentor and then mentee. They then report out to the group. Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Review handout and include illustrative examples. Case study exercise Give group case studies and have them discuss how they would handle each situation. The Mentoring Agreement Show mentees the mentoring agreement and explain that they will be developing this with their mentors later today.