The Mentor's Guide Quotes

“Self-awareness— understanding our own motivations, our strengths and challenges—is the key to getting ready to mentor.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“An effective mentoring relationship requires that each partner understand something about the other person’s generational context and yet not make “generationalizations.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“To realize value, mentoring partners must create relationships where both mentor and mentee can show up fully and authentically.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“When we fail to differentiate between self and other in a mentoring relationship, we run the risk of projecting our own lived experience onto our mentee.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“Mentoring at its very core is a learning relationship, and the phases I discuss and explore in this book are structures and processes that contribute to learning.”
― Lois J. Zachary, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“If you want to travel fast, travel alone; if you want to travel far, travel together.”
― Lois J. Zachary, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships