In my mentoring assignments, I have found following pitfalls 1. Poor Assessment of mentee’s background (knowledge and skills). 2. Identifying mentee’s motivation and clear identification of the needs. 3. Inability to Deal with mentee’s inexperience (knowledge and skills) e.g. Computing skills, Smartphone skills etc. 4. Failure to Address mentee’s misconceptions about science 5. Failure to Set reasonable, time-bound goals for the
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