Why is mentorship important to leadership development?
The best teacher is experience. Mentor/mentee relationships are a hands-on way to translate and transmit experience and to see it in practice. The process of asking the question why not only provides a context for the Fellow in a mentorship, but it also allows the mentor to perhaps look at processes in a new way and with fresh eyes. It’s a mutually beneficial learning and doing method in real-world and real-time situations. Why do you support National Urban Fellows? The National Urban Fellows is a unique opportunity for an organization such as Seattle City Light to benefit from the talent, creativity, and vision of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Our own community comprises individuals who speak as many as 149 different languages! The children in our schools are bringing a new faceand often new experiencesto the fabric of our city. Seeing our community through the eyes of a National Urban Fellow opens our organization to new approaches, new ideas, and a new way to deliver service
