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What Mentorship Is
Mentorship, sponsorship, coaching, and networking are four different things. Conflating them is why most programmes disappoint everybody involved.
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Designing a Programme That Might Work
Formal mentoring programmes fail for structural reasons rather than through poor execution. A programme that understands what it can and cannot supply is worth running; most do not.
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Mentorship, Sponsorship, Coaching, Networking
Sponsorship is what moves careers and it is the one nobody asks for, because asking requires naming what you want from somebody who would have to spend standing to provide it.