Mentors should remember that even in cases where the mentee responds with admirable self-awareness about problems, and formulates reasonable plans to modify unproductive behaviors or strategies, that insight itself is not a guarantee that change will immediately or automatically be the result.
The agreement to pursue new approaches that results from a successful confrontive experience should be viewed as a significant starting point rather than as a completed race.
Certainly, the more ingrained and complex the particular behavior under review, the higher the probability that productive change will evolve as a gradual series of small victories than as a major leap from negative to positive actions. Mentors should therefore attend ...
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