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

What (most) Protégés Want <strong>
</strong><br />

From Mentors<br />

Gareth Lewis’ years of experience, <strong>
</strong><br />

indicate that protégés are looking for the<br />

following:<br />

© Learning Link International<strong>
</strong><br />

April 2005<br />

(2000, pp 34-36)<br />

1. A mentor with good interpersonal and<br />

communication skills.<br />

2. Mutual respect and adult-adult interaction.<br />

3. A mentoring style that is an “uncanny mix between the comfortable and<br />

personal on the one hand and professional and business on the other.”<br />

4. A worthy role model/example.<br />

5. Availability and punctuality.<br />

6. A wide repertoire and range of experience.<br />

7. A ‘soft focus’. Either explicitly or, more usually, implicitly, it seems that<br />

learners are seeking ‘softer’ skills, together with the ‘harder’ skills or<br />

objectives.<br />

8. Inspiration and motivation.<br />

9. Unexpected spin-offs which are not part of the main agenda, e.g.<br />

becoming “streetwise” in life.<br />

Which of the above can you offer?<br />

Module 2 - Focus on Mentors and<br />

Mentees<br />

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