Mentoring: Narrow Your Focus

Mentoring is a very delicate and highly dangerous process. Before you embark upon a mentoring mission or engagement, be certain of your intentions and expectations, and be certain of your student's intentions and expectations. Self-knowledge and the ability to know precisely the student's truest reasons for requesting mentoring from you (via observation of verbal and non-verbal messaging as well as by intensive, candid questioning (which involves a dedicated investment of time) are crucial analysis tools. Expectation management must be established.

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