For example, Mentors may be in a most effective position to support Mentees in the context of probation. The whole issue of probationary processes is becoming more critical. Please contribute if you have experience or ideas on this. Please share your experience of the part Mentors can, or should, play in probationary processes. Please tell us of any successful solutions to such problems that you know about.
Mentors are usually busy people.
They are often senior people in the organisation or context involved. They are often highly professional people. They may not think they need any training, or they may think they know everything they need to know about being a Mentor just because of who they are, where they are, where they've been, and what they do. Let's look at some of the qualities seen as relevant to being a good Mentor. You may well think of more qualities that Mentors need to develop.