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What Makes a Mentor?
There's no single model, but experts say most successful mentors:
- Believe in the mentoring process--often as former protégés themselves
- Commit to spending the time necessary to do the job well
- Love teaching
- Enjoy developing processes and road maps
- View mentoring as a partnership (rather than one-way instruction)
- Appear confident and professional--but also open and approachable
- Exhibit genuine interest in their protégés' careers
- Communicate clearly
- Listen well
- Take a positive, creative approach to problem-solving
- Provide constructive, nonjudgmental feedback
- Wish to “give something back” to their organizations or professions
- Track their protégés progress even after formal mentoring ends
Above all, says Amy Langer, CPA and Salo LLC founding partner, a mentor is “someone you'd want to follow. A leader.”
– A.S.
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