Tips for mentors

Tips for mentors

27 January 2021
Gerrit Sarens
Gerrit Sarens

  • Mentor Bart Briers happily shares his lessons learned

    1. Be truly interested in your mentee and his/her case
    2. Refrain from selling yourself: if you are trying to sell someone you are not, you'll fail to help the mentee
    3. Come prepared and be extremely flexible timewise in every session.
    4. Take the time to get to know the mentee, to learn the context. Don't do this in between meetings, but best at the end of the working day, so you have a big enough window to go into depth
    5. Ask a lot of open questions
    6. Dare to voice your opinion: the mentee deserves and expects your advice

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