163: Building successful mentor/protégé relationships with Dr. Ellen Ensher
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The Importance of Tests in Mentoring
In an interpersonal relationship, how people challenge each other a little bit or they have little tests like, you know, how do I look in this pair of pants? Does my butt look big in these jeans and then how that partner responds is often a big test of what's going to happen. Well, same thing happens in mentoring. Sometimes a mentor will say to a protege, hey, why don't you reach out to this person or read this book? And then if the protege does it, great. If not, the mentor is kind of disappointed in the relationship can kind of end. We're starting some new research looking at this in Europe as well.
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