Rhyddings Mentors' Profiles
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Stuart Duhan

Age  58
Which firm do (did) you work for? T.R.A. Co.Ltd.
What is (was) your job title and what do (did) you do? Was Managing Director of my own manufacturing business.
How long have you been mentoring? 4 months
Qualities you think help to make a good mentor. Good listener, empathy, patience, commonsense.
What do you think you've got out of mentoring? An education!! Too early to really tell - but so far a new realisation of young people's worries and concerns.
What's the hardest part of being a mentor? Not being able to dispel worries immediately and solve problems by the waving of a magic wand.
Do you think mentoring has been beneficial to the students you've mentored? I have noticed an improvement in his self-confidence and general demeanour.

Stuart began mentoring for us in 2003

 

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