How to be an effective mentor
Mentoring can be one of the most effective means of teaching: inviting someone to learn from the example of another with more experience. Whether through apprenticeships, internships or less-formal relationships, walking alongside an experienced practitioner can impart essential skills, attitudes and knowledge.
Being a mentor doesn’t mean having all the answers to every question. A good mentor know which questions to ask to stimulate development in their protégeé.
Some of the questions mentors ask:
- What are your hopes and dreams for the future?
- How can I help you?
- Where are your skills being tested?
- Where is your character being tested?
- How is your relationship/communication style effecting what you are trying to accomplish?
- What are some new things you could try?
- What are some things that would help you to have more integrity?
- What challenges have you faced and what were some of the effects of those challenges?
- How has that shaped who you are?
- How can you use your past to prepare you for the future?
- Even though things haven’t worked out as you’d hoped, what are you learning from that?
- As you assess your growth, where do you see yourself right now?
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