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Assess and develop a protégé’s task related skills

Assess and develop a protégé’s task related skills

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Assess and develop a protégé’s task related skills

- Before we begin, I would love for you to reflect on what you think you gain by serving as a mentor. If you can, jot a few ideas down. There's been a lot of research about mentoring benefits. For example, when you help proteges become better performers at work, it can actually pay off for you financially. Serving as a mentor also increases your social capital. You become known as a developer of talent. In order to assess and develop your protege's work skills, do the following. First, ask your protege to bring in their past performance reviews. Look at the performance reviews together. Make note of their three major strengths and three major growing edges. Then decide where you can be helpful as a mentor. For example, I have a protege at work who's a junior professor. She's a terrific researcher and colleague. But when she was new to the job, she got a little lost in the classroom. Her teaching evaluations were really low, like two's and three's on a five-point scale. Her students…

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