Mentoring
Mentoring programmes designed with matching, expectations and review, rather than a good intention and two busy people.
Matching, expectations, duration and review, decided before the first meeting.
Mentoring is a skill. Being experienced is not the same as being able to develop someone.
Whether the programme changed anything, asked seriously.
We publish these because most of the value in hiring anyone is knowing which mistakes are common, and that knowledge is not worth hiding.
Pairs assembled from who was free produce relationships neither party wanted.
An open ended arrangement drifts and then lapses with nobody willing to say so. A defined period that can be renewed works better.
Including when the answer is that you do not need what you came to ask for. Anyone who never says that is not giving you information, they are giving you an invoice.
Where something needs a legal opinion, a financial audit or a clinical judgement, we will say so and stop rather than improvise past the edge of what we do.
Tell us the situation rather than the service you think you need. We would rather start from your problem.