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A wisdom perspective suggests that effective mentoring programs should:

• Avoid matching people within narrow disciplines or traits because that may steer the relationship toward skinny wisdom. It’s a myth that mentoring is primarily about knowledge transfer. Athena used her wisdom to help Odysseus reflect and become wiser in turn. Mentees can acquire skinny wisdom in many other ways, and the more the relationship focuses on it, the less time and space for different aspects of mentoring, which are far more deeply developmental.
• Ensure mentoring program managers have their resources for building and sharing wisdom.
• Emphasize the co-learning that takes place when mentoring relationships are at their best. If a mentor learns nothing from their mentee/protege, they probably weren’t mentoring!

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