Learn More About Mentoring
Research, News, and Features penned by the MentorKey team – Read on for actionable, deep insights on building and maintaining powerful mentoring programs and connections.
Learn More About Mentoring
Research, News, and Features penned by the MentorKey team – Read on for actionable, deep insights on building and maintaining powerful mentoring programs and connections.
Leading Through the Hard Conversations
One of the least glamorous, but most essential skills in leadership is knowing how to have a difficult conversation. Whether it’s challenging a board decision, confronting underperformance, or pushing back on a superior’s judgment, hard conversations are part and parcel of the role. What separates strong leaders from the rest is not how to avoid these discussions—but how well they seek them out and navigate them.
Can Empathy Be Taught?
There’s a common trap in mentoring relationships that’s easy to miss. It occurs when both parties try and shape the mentee into a “carbon copy” of their mentor. This creates an “authenticity paradox” in which the very relationship meant to help a person, undermines them instead.
Addressing the Authenticity Paradox in Mentoring
There’s a common trap in mentoring relationships that’s easy to miss. It occurs when both parties try and shape the mentee into a “carbon copy” of their mentor. This creates an “authenticity paradox” in which the very relationship meant to help a person, undermines them instead.
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