More specifically in a software engineering context, how can a mid-level Lead/Manager excel at mentoring the inexperienced engineers reporting to him/her?<p>Article/Book recommendations and personal anecdotes are all welcome...
Know what career paths look like and make sure your protege is progressing.<p>Get them experience - progressively harder projects.<p>I know that's not specific, but it does work (LOPSA Mentor of the Year 2011 here and I've mentored quite a few sysadmins.)<p>Of course there's <a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentorship" rel="nofollow">http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentorship</a><p>Thanks for giving back!