From the course: Being a Good Mentee
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Building trust with your mentor
- Can you think of a time at work when someone earned your trust, or when someone betrayed your trust? Trust is the foundation of most effective relationships. This is especially true for mentoring. Trust is defined as being truthful, consistent, and transparent. Let's look at five ways to build trust with your mentor. First, assess the trust in your relationship with your mentor. To help you reflect on the trust you have with your mentor, I have developed a mentoring trust assessment tool. This tool is available in the Exercise Files. Here are a few questions from the tool for you to consider. Do I communicate honestly with my mentor? Do my actions match my words when I'm working with my mentor? Do I share personal stories with my mentor? Second, build trust by taking a risk and self-disclosing. For example, recently I had a protege who had been mentoring all year long. Our relationship had gone from great to awful in just a few months. She was not returning emails, and was canceling…
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