Any mentor is expected to perform well at:

• Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Convincing others to accept and idea or to otherwise change their minds or actions in accordance to the companies objectives.
• Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Mentoring junior and adjunct faculty members.
• Initiating, facilitating, and moderating classroom discussions.
• Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as pharmacology, mental health nursing, and community health caring practices.
• Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Preparing course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Supervising students’ laboratory and clinical working.
• Evaluating and grading students’ class working, laboratory and clinic working, assignments, and papers.
• Collaborating with colleagues for addressing teaching and researching issues.
• Planning, evaluating, and revising curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
• Assessing clinical education needs and patient and client teaching needs using a variety of methods.
• Compiling, administering, and grading examinations, or assigning this working to others.