- Committed to learning and helping others learn
- Good listeners
- Displays empathy
- Builds rapport
- Encourages the learner to speak
- Observes and reflects
- Provides constructive challenge
- Self-aware and understands others
- Have intuitive wisdom from life experience
- Helps the learner reshape their thinking
- Politically or professionally savvy
- Shares experiences
- Steps back from the detail
- Manages the relationship and not the goals, and
- Offers friendship
