Mentoring – who can take it, and who should deal it?
This is a potentially complicated topic. I had always heard “don’t get an old dog to teach new tricks”. Meaning? It wasn’t exactly in the company’s best interest to have begruntled employees showing the ropes to the new employees. How could it be? So – this begs the question, how do you choose who teaches who? How to discern between the happy – or not – so – happy employees. And, even worse – is there much of a choice?
These are where my thoughts go with the topic. This article however, takes a different route – it installs the importance of actually wanting to learn. It seems that the new generation of workers doesn’t heed well to help from others. How can you relate to this? How does your company deal with mentoring?