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163: Building successful mentor/protégé relationships with Dr. Ellen Ensher

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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The Right Way to Think About Mentorship

Informal relationships tend to be slightly more effective than formal mentoring relationships. If you can get your formal mentoring program to kind of feel like an informal program in the sense that you give people choice and that they feel rewarded, then it can be almost as effective as an informal relationship. The other thing I would say is the idea of reciprocity. So realizing that the best relationships are those in which both the mentors and proteges give and get.

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