28 min
The Inside View on Mentoring Career Stewardship with Michael Melcher
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- Careers
What is really goes on inside a mentoring relationship? How do these unique relationships start, evolve, manage bumps along the road, and be useful to both parties? In this episode, Michael is joined by Lauren Laitin, the founder of Parachute Coaching who is -- spoiler alert -- Michael's mentee. They review the random way that they met, what initially kicked off their connection, when it turned into a mentoring relationship, and what they've learned along the way. This episode has some mentoring realness a-ha's that you are unlikely to find elsewhere, such as: mentors aren't motivated primarily by whether they like you. And: you might have disagreements or conflicts with your mentor. Best practices for creating your own healthy mentor relationships at the end of the episode.
What is really goes on inside a mentoring relationship? How do these unique relationships start, evolve, manage bumps along the road, and be useful to both parties? In this episode, Michael is joined by Lauren Laitin, the founder of Parachute Coaching who is -- spoiler alert -- Michael's mentee. They review the random way that they met, what initially kicked off their connection, when it turned into a mentoring relationship, and what they've learned along the way. This episode has some mentoring realness a-ha's that you are unlikely to find elsewhere, such as: mentors aren't motivated primarily by whether they like you. And: you might have disagreements or conflicts with your mentor. Best practices for creating your own healthy mentor relationships at the end of the episode.
28 min