What does mentoring mean to you?

Teaching the young how to live a productive life.

Sharing that your failures are your greatest strengths. I feel that you can only pass on knowledge or skills if you have failed and still triumphed and improved.

To me it mean follow the example of a person show good leadership traits..no matter who that person is..I did and it help me through 22+ yrs of military service and on to 22+ yrs work MWR and DOD mostly it just plain old respect for a human being

Actually, it depends solely upon the protégé. How the protégé reacts to the mentor defines the relationship. A mentor must have a heart of calm resolve. And, be ready for any and all of the twists and turns of the relationship. If a mentor does not realize that 'hearing is not necessarily listening', 'doing is not learning', and walking out in front is not leading', he/she has failed their protégé(s). If the relationship becomes an infantile tit-for-tat, it's a toss-up rivalry and not a mentorship. The failure becomes the soul property of the mentor.

Grooming an individual for success.

Leading is talking care of yourself first to exemplify self growth. Which naturally promotes mentorship and becomes part of the network of leaders.

Do your best to train the next generation for the future.

You can lead but you must be ready to follow. Set the standard before asking others to do it.

Mentoring is taking all your experience and knowledge and passing it down to the junior or new recruits so they might not not make the same mistakes as you did plus helping them progress their careers.

To teach others a skill