Bottom line: Even for mentored training awards, multiple mentors can be good things when there's a good reason for them.
Cultivate multiple mentors for your personal and professional development.
T. E.: I also encourage trainees to have multiple mentors.
Mentors matter, particularly if women are fortunate enough to have multiple mentors with different strengths.
In the meantime, McGee recommends students seek out multiple mentors to get different perspectives.
G. Baugh, T. A. Scandura, The effect of multiple mentors on protege attitudes toward the work setting.
You may find your needs filled by a single mentor; yet there is no harm in having multiple mentors, and there is much that is good, potentially.
So it's worthwhile to connect with multiple mentors, including other faculty members, fellow students, postdocs, and other scientists, such as industry collaborators.
In fact, all new founders who join Endeavor's network receive advisory boards made up of multiple mentors who meet with the entrepreneur at least once each quarter.
Nowadays, many companies have developed structured mentor programmes that pair up the newly hired with the experienced employees, sometimes even assigning multiple mentors to help with different areas of expertise.
