What Can A Mentor Do

Developing the Next Generation of Rainmakers What Can a Mentor Do? I recently posted: How to Be a More Effective Mentor. That post generated a lot of interest, so I want to add more thoughts on mentoring. What can a mentor do? Historically a mentor had many roles and functions including: I believe these roles and functions remain important today. Yet, in 2012 and 2013,  an associate may have many formal and informal mentors. So no one mentor may provide all of the support previously provided. Here is some very specific tasks you can do to help your associate mentee: Finally I want to share my good news with you.Yesterday at 7:30 AM I had my hip replaced. By 1:00 I was doing laps on my hospital floor with my new walker. The physical therapist was amazed and said I was incredibly motivated and my pre-surgery exercise had helped a great deal.  I am ready to go to sleep as I am writing this and I am still feeling great. I am amazed at the high quality of service I am receiving at the hospital. Law firms could learn from this hospital and I will share my thoughts with you down the road.   I practiced law for 37 years developing a national construction law practice representing some of the top highway and transportation construction contractors in the US.