Mentorship is an often mentioned topic. Mentorship means different things to different individuals. From my perspective I would evaluate leaders I worked with, peers, subordinates and seniors and determine if what they said matched their behaviors. If so I would then parse out those that I respected professionally and as a person and do my best to emulate their example. I would contend that this was useful also for those that might have flaws, but excelled in areas that might serve as a model to be followed. I count few that I had a dialogue with, asked advice of and think that it might have been better had I engaged more with my mentors.

How about you? What worked for you, and how do you think of the mentorship process? Always interested in hearing other perspectives.