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Mentoring 
 Future Leaders

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<strong>Mentoring</strong> <strong>Future</strong> <strong>Leaders</strong><br />

Are Mentors Made or Born?<br />

“<strong>Mentoring</strong> can be done by <strong>
</strong><br />

anyone, at any time, and in <strong>
</strong><br />

almost any place. <strong>Mentoring</strong> can<br />

be a one-shot intervention or a lifelong relationship. It can be carried<br />

out informally, as part of friendship, or formally, as part of a highly<br />

structured new employee orientation program.<br />

Often, mentoring is a process whereby mentor and mentee work together<br />

to discover and develop the mentee’s latent abilities, to provide the<br />

mentee with knowledge and skills as opportunities and needs arise, and<br />

for the mentor to serve as an effective tutor, counsellor, friend and foil who<br />

enables the mentee to sharpen skills and hone her or his thinking.<br />

<strong>Mentoring</strong> can also be almost unconscious. One person may, without<br />

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realizing it, do<br />

International<strong>
</strong><br />

or say something which has an important effect on another<br />

April 2005<br />

Module 1 - Introduction to <strong>Mentoring</strong> Page ! 1

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