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FROM THE FOUNDER
Helping other people develop and be successful could be one of the most rewarding aspects of your career. Practical tips on real-world mentoring
O ne of the great aspects of my life today as someone who is retired from my businesses and working as a college professor is all of the time I have for mentoring. It’s not just students and former students – I also mentor a bunch of other people who have sought me out or that I have met in a number of different places, including LinkedIn.
Mark Zweig
Here are my thoughts:
You will find that mentees who never listen to the advice of their mentors, or those who are too argumentative, will probably need to be dropped. ■ Set a regular time to meet or call. Stick with it. This schedule is beyond crucial, otherwise other priorities will rule the day and the mentoring probably won’t occur. Make it a time that you think you can stick with. ■ Meetings are better than Zoom calls, Zoom calls are better than phone calls, and phone calls are better than texting. It’s really hard to replace face-to-face contact when establishing a
■ It’s a mutual thing. One thing I have learned that has been reinforced so many times over – mentoring has to be a mutual thing. Mentors and mentees have to seek each other out. There isn’t any way you can “assign” these people to each other. It’s not a forced relationship. There has to be a mutual interest in working together. Without that, mentoring will fail. ■ Mentoring takes time. Not everyone has it. Of course, the best mentors are most likely the people who are already the busiest. But if you are serious about mentoring, you will still need to find the time to do it. Again, this implies the need to be selective about who you will mentor.
See MARK ZWEIG, page 12
THE ZWEIG LETTER FEBRUARY 6, 2023, ISSUE 1475
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