Mentors, Mentees, and Building a Board of Directors:The Big Questions in Personal and Career Development through Mentorship

摘要

Whether you are aiming for career advancement, academic accomplishments, or a more engagedor balanced personal life, a team of quality mentors can help you achieve your goals.Increasingly, society has spoken to the value of finding a mentor though research suggests themajority of adults are not heeding these recommendations. Similarly, research tells us havingmore than one mentor, referred to by the authors as a personal board of directors, yields greaterlong-term outcomes. This paper will discuss what effective mentor- and mentee-shiprelationships look like, how to identify potential mentors, and how to be a mentor to others. Theaim of this paper is to empower readers with new personal insight and skills to establish mutuallybeneficial mentoring relationships, both in their personal and professional lives.