The Mentoring Lifecycle: It's The BEST!

Mentoring relationships have ups and downs and go through certain phases. Learning about these phases will help you feel more comfortable since you will know what to expect. You will also be more supportive of your mentee. This lesson will help you understand each phase of the mentoring relationship.

In addition, you will find out what to do during each phase to make sure your relationship is great!

Most mentoring relationships go through four stages:

• Birth
• Engage
• Sustain
• Transition

You can easily remember this by remembering that mentoring relationships are the BEST!

Remember that these stages are not clear-cut. They frequently overlap, and you may even find yourself returning to an earlier phase. This is all part of the normal development of the relationship.

Click each of these links to learn more about each phase of a mentoring relationship.