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For Alumni
Podcast: How to Be a Great Mentor
In this episode of the Kellogg Insight podcast, we hear from Diane Brink, a senior fellow and adjunct professor within the Kellogg School’s Markets & Customers Initiative who served as CMO for IBM’s global technology services about her own journey from protégé to mentor. Then Carter Cast, a clinical professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Kellogg, describes how you can solicit advice that can help accelerate your career even in the absence of a mentor.
How to be a good Mentor: 7 General Guidelines
Check out these seven general guidelines on how to be the best mentee you can be. Developed by Alexandra Levit (BA '98), business and workplace author and consultant.
For Students and Recent Graduates
Take 5: How to Be Prepared for Important Career Moments
Expert advice on getting ready to network, negotiate, or make your case to the CEO.
Initial Meeting: Sample Agenda
There are a few essential questions to ask before embarking on your mentorship. Use this sample agenda and set of questions to guide your first conversation with your mentor.
Mid-Point Check In: Sample Agenda
Use this sample agenda as a guide for your mid-point conversation with your mentor.
The Closing Conversation: Sample Agenda
Use this sample agenda as a guide for your closing conversation with your mentor.
How to be a good Mentee: 7 General Guidelines
Check out these seven general guidelines on how to be the best mentee you can be. Developed by Alexandra Levit (BA '98), business and workplace author and consultant.
Meeting Management: How to Make the Most of Your First and Last Five Minutes
Use these first impression and meeting management tips developed by Kellogg Alum, Dave Ryan '84.
10 Essentials for being a good Mentee
An article by James H. Lowry, Senior Adviser, The Boston Consulting Group Inc.
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Graduate Edition: Learn to Network. Get a Job
A simple, step-by-step guide written expressly for job-seeking grads that shows you how to use your educational background to express your professional experience.
For Alumni, Students and Recent Graduates
5 Ways to Get the Most out of a Mentor-Protégé Relationship
Protégés, it’s not just about landing your next job—and mentors, there’s plenty in it for you, too.
What's the Secret Ingredient to Great Mentorship?
It’s not just subject-matter expertise, according to a new study.