7 Fail-proof Ways To Get Lasting Mentorship

By Jason Smeichel

A mentoring relationship is a connection (usually) between a more senior employee or leader and a junior employee who may be younger, or less experienced.

Although the senior-junior mentoring relationship is what usually comes to mind when someone says “mentorship” it doesn’t necessarily mean that’s the case all the time. 

The mentor-mentee relationship can take several different forms.

Mentorships are unique relationships that are most often developed in a professional atmosphere. They are designed to help the mentee learn new skills, network and become more successful in their careers.

They also provide the mentee with an opportunity to gain knowledge from a more experienced co-worker. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jason Smeichel
• Release date: May 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9789718216576

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Dedication

To my, Jake and two sons, I dedicate this beautiful work I’ve put my time and energy in.

INTRODUCTION

You know, mentoring isn't really mainstream enough, I don't think, in many parts of the world to be considered kind of.

Normal practice or something that is an accepted regular part of our personal development lives.

And I think this is part of why, again, I want to do this, because many of us desperately need it mentoring voice into our lives but don't know where to find one or who is the right mentor for us or what stage of our lives we need a mentor or what we need mentoring about.

And some of these things I'm going to speak to you about in these six keys to mentor relationship will answer all of those questions.

But I think I want to say at the beginning of this book, of course, that if the word itself and the idea itself is quite new to you, then that's why I think I needed to do these, because when something is more an accepted common part of our personal development, then we don't feel as odd or those weird odors awkward in creating a relationship of that nature in our lives because everybody else is.

And so compared to, say, counseling or seeing a doctor or a psychiatrist or psychologist or even talking to a priest, a mentoring relationship lacks the prestige.

And the history that those other kinds of input have in our societies, especially in the West.

So mentoring still feels to me like a cottage industry, certainly in England and in Europe, I've talked to many people in the personal development space over the years who have struggled with what I'm saying to you guys now, and perhaps you are to that where you live.

This idea of being a mentor or finding a mentor is kind of an odd thing to talk about, especially if it involves finances will come to in a few minutes.

So what happens is with things of this nature is that the role of a mentor in our lives lacks the collective credibility that these other inputs that we wouldn't hesitate to seek out regarding counseling, etc.

they have that credibility that mentoring doesn't have.

And so because it is kind of on the road less traveled and mentoring is not to hand everywhere, you have to hunt for it.

And part of the apprehension in finding a mentor and creating a mentoring relationship is that we don't know where to find such people.

They're not in the phone directory.

It's