Mentoring relationships “go quiet” for a wide variety of reasons, many of them positive. For example: The mentee may need time to work through some difficult choices on their own – the mentor will have set them off on a learning journey by asking powerful questions, which require deep reflection and experimentation Either mentor or…
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