Introduction to entrepreneurship/IENT102/Mentorship/What
According to Wikipedia:
Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The mentor may be older or younger than the person being mentored, but she or he must have a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn.[1] Mentorship experience and relationship structure affect the "amount of psychosocial support, career guidance, role modeling, and communication that occurs in the mentoring relationships in which the protégés and mentors engaged."[2]
Historically the roots of mentoring are lost in the annuls of time, but there is a character called 'Mentor' in Homer's Odyssey who the goddess Athena impersonates in order to give guidance to young Telemachus. This may be the origin of the term.
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Mentors and Mentees are found in lots of different situations. For example: new soldiers and an army trainer, a student nurse and the charge nurse, or novice brick layer and the site foreman.
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References
- ↑ Farren Ph.D., Caela. "Eight Types of Mentor: Which Ones Do You Need?". MasteryWorks. http://www.masteryworks.com/newsite/downloads/Article3_EightTypesofMentors-WhichOnesdoyouNeed.pdf.
- ↑ Fagenson-Eland, Ellen A., Michelle A. Marks, and Karen L. Amendola. "Perceptions of mentoring relationships." Journal of Vocational Behavior 51, no. 1 (1997): 29-42.
