Questioing as a method of modern mentorship

The article poses the problem of the transfer of experience in conditions where the production skills of an experienced employee due to the emergence of new technologies may be inadequate to the current situation. The authors offer a sketch of the concept of a new type mentoring. Its main features are: a differentiated analysis by a mentor of his own experience, the ability to highlight relevant and outdated components in it, attention to the uniqueness of situations of mentee and his requests, the ability to help him analyze his difficulties. The skills related to the general literacy of the mentor are highlighted: the ability to ask meaningful questions both regarding the experience of mentor and the situation of the mentee, the ability to help the mentee pose his own questions about the situation and formulate a request for help from the mentor. In this regard, a hypothesis has been formulated about the place that interactive questioning should take in the training of mentors, and an experiment is described confirming the effectiveness of such techniques.