Episode 43: Dos and Don’ts for Building Mentor Relationships
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In this episode of Beyond the Business Suit, we're covering part 1 of a 2 part series about building your professional network. In this episode we'll be tackling mentor relationships and in our next episode we'll be discussing sponsor relationships.
Here are the 4 Dos and Don'ts when building mentor relationships (listen to the episode for the full details):
- Do develop a mentor set (you don't want just one mentor). Like Keesha Boyd taught us in episode #11, we should have four types of mentors:
- A peer
- A coach
- A proven navigator with a similar style
- A straight shooter
- Don't ask someone, “Can you be my mentor?”
- Do start by building an authentic relationship.
- Do make sure there is some give and take in the relationship. Make sure the relationship is not only one sided.
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