Mentorship Guide
  • Mentorship Guide
  • Start here
    • Mentors overview
    • Mentees overview
  • Roadmap (coming soon)
  • Mentors: Getting started
    • Why should I mentor?
    • Why do others mentor?
    • How can I become a mentor? Am I mentoring already?
  • Mentors: Strategies
    • What's my mentoring style?
    • How do I mentor?
      • Forms of mentorship
      • What to mentor on
    • Where/when can I mentor?
  • Mentors: Growth (coming soon)
    • Should I take a break from mentoring?
    • How can I become a better mentor?
  • mentees (coming soon)
    • Where do I find mentors?
    • What do I ask/talk about?
    • How do I respect their time?
    • How do I become a better mentee?
  • Advice from peers
    • Advice for mentors
      • Mentor advice from other mentors
      • Mentor advice from mentees
    • Advice for mentees
      • Mentee advice from other mentees
      • Mentee advice from mentors
  • Resources
    • Mentorship programs
    • Additional resources
      • Videos
      • Articles
    • Community support
      • Join our Spectrum community
      • Monthly online chat (fun and insightful)
  • Important
    • How to contribute
    • Thank you + Contributors
    • Code of Conduct
  • Operations
    • Español (and other languages)
    • Lessons learned
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  1. Mentors: Getting started

Why should I mentor?

Mentorship is important. It helps others, it helps you, and it helps the broader community.

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It helps you

Paying it forward benefits you as well.

  • learn more about yourself

  • expand your world view

  • make a new friend, ally, supporter

  • feel good about giving back

  • find knowledge gaps in your own thinking

  • learn something new

Hearing other people's stories and perspectives, makes your own that much more richer, dynamic, and inclusive.

There are valuable feelings and experiences that money cannot buy, but that only mentorship can provide.

It helps others

The help you give has valuable and lasting benefits.

Here are a few different ways your work has an impact, such as helping someone in their ...

  • career

    • accomplishing goals

    • trajectory

    • advancement

  • schooling

    • what to pursue

    • excelling in studies

  • projects/initiatives

    • getting started

    • doing them well

  • skills

    • learning new concepts

    • reinforcing concepts

  • and more!

“To the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world” (Dr Seuss)

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" (James Keller)

What we put in, we get out. Collectively, we can do our part in fostering a more inclusive, collaborative, and innovative community.

We are raising the waters so that we're all uplifted. It's a ripple effect. We help someone and they help someone and it continues.

Before you know it, it's like a boomerang of help that returns to you.

It helps the broader community

Action steps

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