You are wired to mentor at work
Your nearest mentor is closer than you know. The mentor sitting nearest you may actually be--you. Here's a podcast about "lateral mentoring" in org community.
Does your company, like so many corporations today, dismiss mentoring by saying, “It just doesn’t work”?
They’re wrong, and this podcast shows how mentorship can transform your org.
Every week, our intergenerational team of Mode/Switchers assembles to make sense of American work culture. Our newest guest, psychologist Deborah Heiser, lays out five styles of mentoring from her book The Mentorship Edge.
“Lateral mentoring,” Heiser explains, “enhances the purpose for the giver and receiver. It creates a new kind of ‘community’ in a world that has tended toward being hyper-individualized…. Lateral mentoring expands our vision to include parallel support and guidance.”
The Mode/Switch Pod used to come out on Fridays. It’s now up on Thursdays. So, take a listen and learn about how to find and, more importantly, be a mentor.
Emily, LaShone, Deborah, and I swap mentoring tales and chat up practical recs for your org culture.
-craig
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