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The Connected Leadership Podcast: Lateral Mentoring with Debbie Heiser
The Connected Leadership Podcast
English - January 16, 2023 01:00 - 43 minutesBusiness News Business News advice referrals business development generation leadership marketing networking skills Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Andy's guest on this week's Connected Leadership Podcast is from the US. Debbie Heiser is the founder of The Mentor Project, a global project to bring mentoring and support to school and university students. The Mentor Project has successfuly brought together a volunteer community of high achievers across the spectrum. Andy and Debbie explore a new perspective on this subject, lateral mentoring. They compare hierarchical, lateral and reverse mentoring emphasising the need to both be a mentor and a mentee. Debbie believes everyone has mentors even if they are not always aware of it; this is the strength of lateral mentoring. Mastermind groups, other types of formal and informal mentoring and issues of reciprocity, vulnerability and diversity are part of this discussion.