Mentors empower associates to further their personal and professional self-development.
Mentoring is not only an exchange of information, but also of ideas, experiences and friendship in a strategy for professional growth and development. A mentor is someone that an associate can express his or her fears, frustrations and goals to without reprisal. A mentor helps an associate develop the plans and blue prints to solve their own problems or to reach their goals. The information included in this web page is here to provide a model for any Army National Guard Headquarters to use in creating their mentoring programs. Individual states, territories, or Army National Guard units should feel free to download this information for use in unit level mentoring initiatives.