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Mentors are found during times of change, some last a career

Healthcare IT News: “It asks what I might need help with and I don’t know what to say.” My daughter is at the dining room table filling out her Camper Letter to Counselor form for her summer camp.

With this one comment I am struck by the parallels between her experiences at camp and mentoring in the workplace.

She will leave home for a week and live in the woods with a group of young women who have done this before her, and who are prepared to help her in ways that she can’t quite anticipate. She will try new things, she will sometimes fail. She will see examples of female leadership and have the opportunity to build on her own leadership skills. She comes back home from camp every summer brimming with confidence and pride in what she has done – and I know she has not done it alone.

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