mentoring programs
Structured professional guidance
Mentoring programs are structured arrangements pairing experienced individuals with less experienced ones for guidance and development.
Common in workplaces, schools, and professional organizations, they formalize what might otherwise happen informally: The company's mentoring program matches new hires with senior employees.
Programs typically set expectations for meeting frequency and goals, distinguishing them from casual mentorship.
- tutoring servicesSupplemental educational assistance
- career coachingGuidance for work paths
- executive coachingPersonalized development for leaders
- leadership trainingInstruction in guiding groups
- learning the ropesGaining initial competence
skill building · buddy system · life coaching · personal growth · shadowing · apprenticeship · learning strategies · protégé · passing the torch · volunteer coordination · nurturing · youth outreach · performance feedback · succession planning · curriculum planning · knowledge transfer · volunteering · crisis intervention
- Volunteeringvolunteer, volunteering, volunteer hours, unpaid work, volunteer coordinators
- prisoner aidprisoner rights, prison reform, penal reform, prison visits, family visits
- youth servicesyouth development, youth groups, youth centers, youth programs, youth services
- Education CharitiesTeach for America, Khan Academy, scholarship funds, educational grants, tutoring programs
- social servicessocial workers, social work, social services, welfare office, case workers
- juvenile justicejuvenile court, juvenile hall, juvenile detention, juvenile courts, youth court
mentoring programsself-directed learning
Education you control yourself
autodidacticism · self-teaching · self-study · independent learning · independent study
mentoring programshazing
Abusive initiation practices
gatekeeping · sabotage · workplace bullying · exclusion · old boys' club
mentoring programstrial by fire
Test through difficult experience
neglect · abandonment · hazing · burnout culture · indifference