Mentor/Mentee Tips

Communicating Expectations

Mentor:

• Communicate your expectations of your mentee
• Create a plan with your mentees of how to achieve milestones on the way to reaching their goals
• Adapt your feedback to your mentee’s learning and communication styles, etc.
• Set realistic timelines

Mentee:

• Communicate your expectations of your mentor
• Discuss your goals with your mentor and create a plan of how you will achieve milestones on the way to reaching your goals
• Inform your Mentor about your learning and communication preferences
• Set realistic timelines

Working Together

Mentor:

• Advise your mentees on what you know and admit the things you don’t know so they can seek help elsewhere for those things
• Build on your mentee’s strengths and recognize their weaknesses
• Offer constructive feedback
• Evaluate progress
• Be your mentee’s cheerleader when they progress toward or reach their goals
• Be consistent and reliable

Mentee:

• Listen and contribute to the conversation
• Understand that your mentor will not have all the answers, and be prepared to seek out other resources as needed
• Accept constructive feedback
• Evaluate progress
• Celebrate success and assess any shortcomings
• Be consistent and reliable

Conclusion and Follow-Up

Mentor:

• Follow up on successes
• Provide an evaluation of the experience
• Thank your mentee
• Repeat the mentoring process with others

Mentee:

• Update your mentor on your continued success
• Provide an evaluation of the experience
• Thank your mentor