Protecting Mentee Decisions

The final arbiter of the mentee’s journey is the mentee. Mentors must therefore be on guard to protect the mentee’s right of self-determination.

This cautionary note is not meant to suggest that most mentors will somehow knowingly violate mentees’ fundamental responsibility for their own destiny. Rather, it is an acknowledgment that the boundaries of responsibility for crafting a mentee’s plan of development are sometimes not crystal clear, nor always distinctly marked with warning lights that lines are about to be, or have been, crossed.