Employee training system under which a senior or more experienced individual (the mentor) is assigned to act as an advisor, counselor, or guide to a junior or trainee. The mentor is responsible for providing support to, and feedback on, the individual in his or her charge.
Use 'mentoring' in a Sentence
The farrier was mentoring a young man in high school for five years on all the shoeing and trimming necessities before he was allowed to go out on his own.
I could not go to the movies with my friends because I was busy mentoring my new student who needed help in English.
The new junior executives were highly competitive, preferring to sabotage rather than support each other, so upper management figured the company's longstanding mentoring program would probably be pointless.
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