When the Mentor Gets Mentored

Tom Jones wrote the lyrics to a 1977 disco song performed by John Paul Young. The first few bars of this popular song go: “Love is in the air, everywhere I look around; Love is in the air, every sight and every sound.” Substitute the word, “learning” for “love” and you have the precise objective of partnership-based mentoring. If your protégé gave you a grade for what kind of protégé you were to them, what grade would you get? Reciprocal learning is the objective of a learning partnership—we...