Question: Mentoring Is Not Always a Positive Experience On the second day of his job, Bob was introduced to his mentor and shown his office. His mentor was an electrical engineer who had been on the job before Bob was born. Bob's first interaction with his mentor involved the mentor showing him where the pens and paper were stored in the supply cabinet. Over the next year, Bob did not have a chance to speak to his mentor. The only time he heard from him was when his manager told the mentor that he had chosen the wrong size parts for a circuit he was working on. Is this a successful mentoring relationship? What steps should the company take in the future to ensure that its formal mentoring relationships are more successful? How would you determine if a formal mentoring program was successful? What would you measure? Who would be involved?