Developing Mentor Competencies

Not everybody makes a good mentor. Because the urge to share comes from the older or superior person, it is very easy for them to “dump” their experience on the learner in a more or less indiscriminate fashion. The instinct to give is driven more by the mentor’s need to satisfy internal urges than by the mentee’s need to receive. Really effective mentors moderate their behaviour, using experience to shape the questions they ask. Mentor Competencies must be developed.