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5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age

  • Written by Julie Nyanjom, Lecturer - School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your ageAs people stay in the workforce longer and change jobs more often, it's increasingly likely there will be times an older colleague might benefit from mentoring. Shutterstock

Plato and Aristotle. Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. In each of these famous relationships it was the older person with more experience...

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