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Question: I’ve been informally mentoring a junior employee, but I’m thinking about discontinuing our meetings. What’s the best way to handle it when a mentor/mentee relationship just isn’t working out?
We asked Jennifer Francis, mentor, investor and co-founder of SheBoot, to tackle this one:
I do not think that you should continue with a mentor/mentee relationship that’s not working.
Sometimes it’s not working because there’s a mismatch in terms of what each side is hoping to get out of the mentor/mentee relationship. Sometimes it’s a personality mismatch. Sometimes the person
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