Talk:Mentorship

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Should this page include information about the types of activities performed by mentors? Should it include advantages of mentoring? (Such as a discussion about why mentoring is useful, why organizations have mentoring programs, and a discussion of the challenges of mentoring for women and minorities.) I can add those things, but I'm not sure if they would be interesting to people. --Marthafein


 * I would think that all you mentioned would be useful. A criterion that I sometimes use is to ask myself if the material I have written answers any of the questions: What? mel? Why? Who? and When? If the answer is yes, then it will propably a worthwhile contribution. mydogategodshat 00:55, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Terminology
"Mentee" seems only to have arisen in the late 1960s out of a misguided need to have an easy-to-remember and easy-to-spell counterpart to "mentor," when the proper word is protégé. Nobody is "menting" anybody, therefore nobody is being "mented" and nobody is a "mentee." My personal inclination is to replace all instances of this annoying word, but I thought I would get others' impressions here first. Beeeej (talk) 13:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree and would dearly appreciate going back to protege. Similarly, I find no need for "mentorship" when what is being described is the activity/process/engagement of mentoring, the gerund form of the verb, "to mentor". Since this is the first time I have ever written anything on Wikipedia, I lack the temerity to directly edit the page; yet, hope this opportunity to discuss the issue is appropriate. Sjdavidson (talk) 03:39, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

"Protege" means "protect" or "protected," if I'm not wrong. I'm surprised not to find that foundational meaning in this entry. Also, I'm doubly surprised not to find anything about the creative arts. The concept of a protege is huge in the jazz and blues world that I inhabit. Somebody should add that! 130.74.158.115 (talk)

David Leon: I have never heard of "mentee" before reading this article, and I highly doubt it is as widespread as is claimed. It got 567,000 results on google search, whereas "protégé" got 27,500,000. I reckon the little spiel in parentheses should be removed from the first paragraph.

P.S. (not native speaker): I find mentee not as bad as the rest of you - it's similar to coachee, which is well acepted as far as I know. The expression "protege" seems to be worse because it's misleading: a mentor cannot "protect" his mentee, at least not in a company envirement... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.2.17.231 (talk) 08:33, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

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Please fix the spelling errors! It really detracts from the credibility of the article. JKindrachuk —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.72.11.85 (talk) 19:42, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The terminology "mentee" also strikes me as inappropriate. The thing that struck me as most inappropriate was the tone of the paragraph. I have never heard the term before, and agree with the concept of removal or at a minimum backing off on the spin. 3sgte (talk) 14:25, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

I believe the terminology "mentee" has been well established in much of the research on mentoring relationships. I think the article would be improved with the inclusion of more recent developments in the research as well as clearer definitions about mentoring. I also think it may be helpful to discuss further the different types of mentoring such as formal mentoring and informal or natural mentoring. Best, Theresa. tnm2ff — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tnm2ff (talk • contribs) 20:43, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Wow, what strong feelings about protege vs. mentee, without sourcing. Similarly to view above, in my current Level 3 mentoring studies and all the literature I have been reading or reviewing, mentee is the term. Whenever it arose is irrelevant as we're not still in the 1950s, and search terms are also not evidence (unless a bit more sophisticated, e.g. linked to other search terms of mentoring)! The role of a mentor is not to protect (so foundational meaning of protege are irrelevant); protege has a very different meaning. Mentor and mentee is like employer and employee, and similarly used as the correct term, at least in Britain. Similarly, in all the literature I've been reading (much of it online if you care to look), I have not once come across the term mentorship - it's always mentoring.

Candidate for removal (Promotional, NPOV, OR, etc etc)
this paragraph: "It is important to appreciate the differences between instructing, coaching and mentoring. Instructing deals largely with the dissemination of knowledge. Coaching deals primarily with skill building, whereas a mentor is one who helps shape the outlook or attitude of the individual. Alternately, an instructor would typically help out with the job at hand or the work. A coach would help out with work and career related issues. A mentor on the other hand would focus on issues pertaining to career and life. -- Ayan Banerji, Kolkata, India."

is totally unsubstantiated?!?!

Dpser (talk) 15:46, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Plagiarism/copyvio
This diff is the point in February 2009 when the section on Blended mentoring was added. The user responsible was an IP user and has not used that IP since.

I'm not sure that it is a copyvio but it is definitely plagiarism. Entire sentences, and indeed the structure also, follow the official blurb for the EMPIRE project which can be found here.

I know next to nothing about mentoring in the sense that it is portrayed in this article. In fact, having read the article I think that I now know even less! Approaching it from this angle, I've been copyediting etc to better reflect the requirements of a "normal" reader, plus fixing the horrendous citation problems. But I'm not prepared to re-write an entire section which is mostly management-speak gobbedegook to me.

If it is not rewritten within, say, a week from now then I am going to reduce it to something close to a three or four sentence section. Even I can manage that. -

Opinions please? - Sitush (talk) 05:59, 7 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Cutting it back now. Sitush (talk) 01:24, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

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