Use adult-learning principles to make mentor training practical, problem-centered, and respectful.
The move: train mentors through the job, not around the job. Adult learners need to see why the material matters now. In mentoring programs, that means training should begin from the relationship moments most likely to create value or harm. Use experience without letting it dominate Mentors have stories. Good training channels those stories into listening, questioning, contracting, and boundary-setting instead of turning every meeting into autobiography. Make practice problem-centered A mentor does not need a generic lecture on empathy as much as practice with a mentee who says, "I do not know what I want next." The scenario makes…
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