The Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Mentoring

Introduction

There are usually numerous learning activities available for mentees to pursue. Abundant opportunities, for example, currently exist within the modern workplace, in formal institutions of education, and in the informal network of community-based programs.

In addition, the proliferation of entrepreneurial and professional organizations that conduct specialized training seminars, the variety of self-paced computer and video programs, and the growing number of new interactive sources for instruction and information offered on the Internet, have created a rapidly expanding world of possibilities for acquiring additional critical skills, as well as for developing the fine-tuned proficiencies required to compete in both a technologically ...