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CHALLENGES OF
MENTORING ADULTS
The mentee’s personal and professional background can affect
the success of the mentorship relationship and consequently
of the entire mentoring process. As you will mentor adult
creative people, it is essential for you as mentor to analyse
your mentees’ main:
PASSIONS (related to personal human as well as
professional attitudes)
FEARS (such as the fear of striking out on
their own, or the fear of putting their
creative works out there and the potential
of criticism or public scorn)
PROBLEMS (for example their restricted capacities to use
technologies or personal problems related to their family
or lack of perceived business skills, etc.)
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