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In our firm we have mentors, we have coaches, and we have supervisors. Those are all the
three different roles that we have. As your supervisor, that person would be working directly
with an individual like a partner or a manager working with their staff person or their assistant.
Then we have our coaches who are there to support you in the firm as a performance person.
So they’re actually gauging how you are doing and how you are progressing in the firm.
And then we have our mentors, and those mentors are specifically one on one. Mentees select
their mentor because they’re going to pick someone they can relate to and they can confide
in. We feel everybody needs somebody to talk to and our mentor program is all confidential
so it does not go in anyone’s personnel records and it’s all a one on one process.
And it actually works both ways so if a mentor feels like “Yes we need to talk to our mentees”
about maybe some personal issues or some work issues then we would come forward and talk
to our mentee. And then, our mentees will come to us as a mentor saying “I’m thinking
about…” Maybe a change in relationship, it could be having children, it could be doing
something else. The mentees will come to their mentor and have a confidential meeting with
them and hopefully get some good feedback from each other.