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n. state of being a mentor
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Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. The mentor may be older or younger than the person being mentored, but she or he must have a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn. Mentorship experience and relationship structure affect the "amount of psychosocial support, career guidance, role modeling, and communication that occurs in the mentoring relationships in which the protégés and mentors engaged."
The person in receipt of mentorship may be referred to as a protégé (male), a protégée (female), an apprentice or, in the 2000s, a mentee. "Mentoring" is a process that always involves communication and is relationship-based, but its precise definition is elusive, with more than 50 definitions currently in use. One definition of the many that have been proposed, is
Mentoring in Europe has existed since at least Ancient Greek times. Since the 1970s it has spread in the United States mainly in training contexts, with important historical links to the movement advancing workplace equity for women and minorities, and it has been described as "an innovation in American management".
Usage examples of "mentorship".
Lojur felt tremendous gratitude toward Chekov, whose mentorship had been invaluable to him.
I thank the Australian Society of Authors and John Tranter for their assistance through the Mentorship Program.
To the Tower, to Tharius Don, who asked for and received mentorship in her case.
If not for the benevolent mentorship of Supreme Commander Atreides and the Butler family clout, Abulurd would no doubt be a clerk organizing supply runs for isolated outposts.
In the rush of my late-night prowlings with Jimmy Moore and his entourage, of my society functions, of my mentorship with Prescott, of my sexual obsession with Veronica, of my work and play with the Bishop brothers, of this new life that had seemingly been granted me, in the midst of it all I had lost my resentment for a while.
The hours of training Neezer had put her through during her mentorship, enhanced and maintained in the years since then, was all that kept her connected to the searching current-tendrils.
That was what mentorship was all about, apparently, convincing you that it worked.
It was only in the second year that he began to improve, following the mentorship of a maths teacher.
In high school, she was recruited by a mentorship group that paired promising girls with women professionals in the hard sciences.
Renaissance Souls may forget that mentorship has traditionally been a less formal affair, open to everyone.
Joe carries beyond desired favors and takes on tones of a father-son relationship, a form of spiritual and fleshly mentorship that Cohn believes in, has experienced at the hands of Walter Winchell, Edgar Hoover,Joe McCarthy.