What constitutes Mentoring another team?

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Siri

I am mentoring iff my prospective mentee believes I have helped them grow in ways they wouldn't have achieved as well alone.

Originally Posted by JVN

What changes need to take place in the mentee to fulfill your definition? What constitutes "growth" and how much of it is required to constitute successful mentorship?

As the old Buddhist proverb (and legendary golf instructor Harvey Penick) puts it:

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

See example here. I believe mentoring is always an eye-level one-to-one relationship. To say that one team is mentoring another implies (at least) one such relationship. A single good relationship of this kind beats any number of mediocre ones.

Suppose your land has a large oil reserve under it, 400 meters down. Are you better off drilling five holes, each 80 meters deep, or concentrating on one hole until it strikes oil?