{"id":607,"date":"2013-07-06T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=607"},"modified":"2013-07-06T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T17:26:40","slug":"5-myths-about-mentorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/07\/06\/5-myths-about-mentorship\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Myths about Mentorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In her IABC presentation Erin Dyck<\/a> described four myths regarding mentorship:<\/p>\n

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  1. Mentorship is top-down.<\/em> One’s placement in an organizational hierarchy does not, in fact, determine the kind of wisdom and experience one can give another colleague.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Mentors should be from your own chosen profession.<\/em> Many skills and insights are portable from one sector to another, especially those involving communication like conflict resolution and situation analysis.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Mentorship should follow a clearly defined process with clear goals.<\/em> It is outmoded today even to have a career goal that is wholly defined; technology and political economies are transforming both our options and our wishes. Mentorship should be improvisatory.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Mentors and mentees should be close geographically.<\/em> That this need not be true is a straightforward point but one worthwhile to mention nonetheless, especially when one hears (as one does too often) that the “best” communication is “face to face.” There is no “best” medium.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    At the IABC presentation I got up and suggested that there be a fifth myth added to the list: The relationship between a mentor and a mentee needs to be a friendly one.<\/em> \u00a0I will post more on this myth soon.<\/p>\n

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