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2. Valuing: Encourage the student to examine beliefs and ideals in an effort to establish personal values and goals.

3. Open-Mindedness: Encourage the student to keep an open mind to ideas.

4. Interrelations: Make the interactions between mentor and student situations of sharing, caring, and empathizing.

5. Creative Problem-Solving: Encourage the student to use a creative problem-solving process.

6. Effective Communication: Encourage the student to be an attentive listener and an assertive questioner.

7. Discovery: Encourage the student to be an independent thinker.

8. Strengths and Uniqueness: Encourage the student to recognize individual strengths and uniqueness and to build on them.

9. Confidence: Assist the student in developing self-confidence.

10. Awareness: Stress that an individual be aware of the environment, be intuitive, be problem sensitive, and be ready to make the most of opportunities.

11. Risk-Taking: Encourage the student to be a risk-taker and to be an active participant, not a spectator.

12. Flexibility: Share with a student the importance of being flexible and adaptable in attitudes and action, looking for alternatives, and seeing situations/persons from different perspectives.

Noller (1982) Mentoring: A renaissance of Apprenticeship. The Journal of Creative Behavior