Good training to help you become a strong mentor is available, and both the scope and the quality of training are on the rise. If training is not presented to you through a formal mentoring program, find it elsewhere, and make use of it. Both you and your mentee will be beneficiaries. Fortunately, most mentoring programs offer strong training, especially those that are guided by MENTOR’s Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring, third edition (2009). The Elements recommends that mentors participate in a minimum of two hours of pre-match, in-person training grounded in evidence-based methods and materials; and it urges mentoring programs to offer additional training (either in person or online) to all active mentors.

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