Hi all,
I am looking for a mentor on a very informal basis. Not to help with anything specific but just act as a sounding board and someone to connect with in the profession outside of the organisation I work for.
I tried to sign up via the mentoring programme a few years ago and didn’t have much luck and really just want this on a very informal basis and just a friendly face to provide some guidance every now and then :)
For context I have worked in hr for around 5 years in a few different organisations.
thanks so much in advance
U201712091250372D06D [ ;) ] makes a good point. Although I would say that although this community has done an excellent job of being my hivemind mentor for the last decade, there is still something to be said for having a person-to-person, long term mentoring relationship, as a good mentorship is a two-way street, with the mentor benefiting from the perspective of the mentoree* as much as vice versa. It's a symbiotic relationship, whereas I feel like my relationship with this forum is more parasitic.
*I refuse to call it a mentee. I don't care that it's become common parlance. I will die on this hill. "Mentor" has a completely different linguistic root to "tutor".
