ABSTRACT
Mentoring coordinator may be a mentoring champion who believes that formal mentoring will create an individual or organizational benefit. It might be the case that mentoring is seen as part of coordinator's organization's people development strategy. Mentoring relationships are characterized by both friend-like and career or professional support. Many individuals have multiple mentor-like relationships. There are four trends that may influence the work of mentoring program managers in the future. First, there will be increasing expectations that program managers have a responsibility to start, support, and sustain the most effective mentoring programs possible. Second, there is likely to be an increasing emphasis on how mentoring can augment individuals and organizations. Third, advances in technology will continue to influence how one interact. Fourth, networks will become more important as organizations become less hierarchal, and individuals change jobs and even careers more frequently.
