Mentorships cross racial, ethnic, gender and organizational lines. Participants are matched based on geographic areas, common experiences, hobbies and other interests. Special Convention sessions helped ease the marriages. Folks came prepared to make the most of this opportunity. Breakthrough mentoring extends beyond common workplace issues.
Senior executives offer advice on managerial as well as social problems.
The work itself is usually not a problem, but the intangibles are intimidating. Junior partners from last year's program recommended seniors pencil their prot g s into daily schedules. Mentors told junior partners to be direct and honest in communicating what they hoped to get out of the program. Breakthrough provides other perks. Copyright 1997, Newspaper Association of America.