A successful mentoring relationship benefits not only the mentee, but enhances the mentor’s leadership repertoire as well

By Lis Merrick

Having worked on the design and development of many mentoring programmes, I am still amazed at both the mentor’s development and the enhancement of their leadership behaviour. We pitch developmental mentoring as a two-way learning relationship and the benefits for a receptive mentor can be as great as for the mentee. Organisations are increasingly latching on to this. Interest...