LO Colleagues -
Hooray for you Vana Pruitt. What a wonderful idea and gift to us all,
thank you!
And I would add to the "ideal mentor" qualities list:
-- willingness to speak the truth, telling me what I needed to hear, and
-- sense of timing as to when to speak the truth and when to wait a bit
longer (to see if the learning is happening with less direct attention).
Prediction: we'll all have lots higher standards to meet as mentors before
this thread is done.
Best wishes to all "LO'ers," writers and lurkers alike, for much success
and happiness -- at year-end, in the new year(s) too,
Dick Webster
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>As a winter solstice blessing on us all, I'd like to try this experiment
>of listing the qualities of those who have mentored us, with the intent
>that we will remember and demonstrate these qualities during the next
>year.
>
>Vana Prewitt - <vprewitt@bellsouth.net>
--"Richard S. Webster" <webster.1@osu.edu>
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