However, if the mentor is not completely confident in the mentee’s capacity to complete the envisioned agenda, then the obligation to offer honest feedback can suddenly be transformed into a significant source of possible friction. An important guideline, therefore, is to remember that even after forming a skeptical assessment of the mentee’s plans, mentors are not automatically required to immediately transmit their reactions. In these cases, mentors will often need to tread very carefully with regard to openly questioning mentees’ abilities to accomplish their stated career and educational objectives.
Generally, this type of volatile issue would have surfaced (and hopefully been resolved) well before the later phases of ...
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