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    Mentoring with the Right Style
    William Gray
    <p>In 1978, when I started creating formalized mentor-protege partnerships, I did not know that mentors and preteges needed training.  So, I didn't provide any!  Nearly all the literature on mentoring at that time described <i>informal</i> mentoring-- the kind that just happens, spontaneously and naturally without any training. So I simply asked for volunteers, matched them as mentor-protege partners, gave them a brief pep, and sent them on their way!</p>

    <p>But follow up interviews showed that the relationships failed. Mentors and proteges separately reported: Our relationship got stuck.</p>

    <p>To open up the full .pdf article, click <a href="../portals/hrcom/story_docs/Articles_2006/RightStyle.pdf" target="new">here</a>.</p>


     
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