Managing Mentor-Protégé Relationships
Mentoring is the process by which a person with more experience (a mentor) consciously helps a person with less experience (a protégé) achieve his or her professional goals. Researchers Kathy Kram and Lynn Isabella explain that mentors help protégés by offering two kinds of support:[66]
Instrumental support. This includes helping protégés develop their technical and political skills, providing opportunities for challenging and high-visibility assignments, providing feedback on performance, role-modeling appropriate attitudes and behaviors, connecting protégés to people who can help their careers, and protecting protégés from people and situations that can hurt their careers.
Psychosocial support. This includes ...
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