Mentee vs. Protégé: Is there a Difference?

When you’re mentoring someone, what do you call the person to whom you’re imparting all your wisdom? Mentee seems the easy, opposite of mentor, but I don’t like the term. Putting an “ee” on something makes it sound like something you’re “doing to” someone else.

Mentorship is a Gift

If mentorship is about anything, it’s about what you’re “giving to” or “offering to” the person you’re trying to help. Mentoring is about creating a relationship to stimulate your “mentee” to develop and grow. And make no mistake, it’s the “mentee” that’s doing the growing and development for themselves.

When a mentor does their job well, they also grow, but each partner in the relationship is doing their own growing. No one’s doing anything “to” the other.

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