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Table 1 Written instruction explaining actual and preferred response mode

From: Mentoring is in the ‘I’ of the beholder: supporting mentors in reflecting on their actual and preferred way of mentoring

Considering how you mentor, how true or untrue are these following 20 statements for you?

In the first set of answers, think about how you actually, currently act as a mentor, not how you ideally would want to or should act (that is, not based on either theory or how your colleagues mentor others).

The second set of answers allows you to indicate how you would prefer to mentor.

The answers to these two questions can be the same, but there can also be a difference between them. There are, however, no wrong answers to any of these questions.