Mentor Ultimate Mentor 5

Question 1

What is a 'developmental network' in the context of mentoring?

Accepted Answer

The collection of people who actively contribute to a person's professional and personal development

Answer

A developmental network encompasses all relationships — mentors, peers, colleagues, coaches — that contribute to a person's growth, not just one formal mentor.

Question 2

Which bias most commonly leads mentors to select mentees who resemble themselves, potentially limiting diversity?

Accepted Answer

Similarity bias (affinity bias)

Answer

Similarity bias causes people to gravitate toward those who share backgrounds, identities, or experiences, which can inadvertently exclude diverse talent.

Question 3

How does a mentor best support a mentee who is experiencing imposter syndrome?

Accepted Answer

Help them identify concrete evidence of their competence and reframe their self-narrative

Answer

Helping mentees build an evidence-based internal narrative of competence is more lasting than generic reassurance.

Question 4

What does 'feedforward' mean in a mentoring context?

Accepted Answer

Providing suggestions focused on future actions and improvements rather than past performance

Answer

Feedforward, a concept from Marshall Goldsmith, focuses entirely on specific ideas for future improvement rather than evaluating the past.

Question 5

In cross-cultural mentoring, which practice is most important for the mentor to adopt?

Accepted Answer

Develop cultural humility by actively learning about the mentee's cultural context and checking assumptions

Answer

Cultural humility — an ongoing commitment to learning and self-reflection about cultural differences — is essential in cross-cultural mentoring relationships.

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Mentor Ultimate Mentor 5