在職場上，維持良好的師徒關係非常重要，以下兩個要點，幫助我們在職場上的師徒關係更融洽。
進入本文前，請先想想以下單字：
(A)佔用
(B)進展；激增
(C)一線希望
Mentorship is not about you. This may (1) grate on somebody's ear. After all, don't we seek a mentor to help us achieve our goals and give us advice when we need it? However, two-way communication and being mutually beneficial are the critical elements in a successful mentorship relationship. Here are some tips:
職場導師關係的重點並不在你。這聽起也許刺耳。畢竟，我們不都是在尋找一位導師來協助我們達成目標、在需要時給我們建議？雙向溝通跟互惠互利是成功的職場師徒關係的關鍵，以下有兩項技巧：
1. Be Grateful
One of the most powerful signs of gratitude you can show is to recap what you heard in the conversation and tell the next steps you will take - show your mentor that you are committed to what you have learned. The person, who has dedicated their most precious resource, time, wants to know that they were heard, and wants to know that you are ready for the next stage and will follow it through to the very end. This is especially critical to the person you are (A)engaging with - you want to make things clear, specific, and gratefully give feedback to the person who sees potential in you.
1. 表達感謝
最強而有力的感謝方式就是重複你在對話中所聽到的，以及告知你做的下一步決定—表現你已經決定把所學的東西付諸實行。曾在你身上投注最寶貴資源以及時間的人，會希望知道他們的話是被聽見的，並了解你已經準備好了下個階段、貫徹執行。這對於和你談話的人尤其重要—你會希望做事情是清楚、明確的，對那位在你身上看到潛力的人，給予充滿感恩的回應。
2. Follow up
(2) Do whatever floats your boat, just make sure when one of your aforementioned next step during the talk with your mentor is completed, or when you successfully implement a recommendation that was generated from your mentorship interaction, you send them an email:
2. 執行
做你想做的，但是請確保你和良師溝通時所提到的任何下一步付諸實現後，或是你成功地在你的事業中引用了他們給你的建議，寄一封信給他們，如下：
"Hi Elvin Peng and Isaac Chiu,
I want to say thank you again for your marketing tactics and customer service maintenance advice. I want to share with each of you that we are now having a huge (B)surge in sales and are receiving very positive feedbacks from our customers. The attached excels are some of the customer remarks and predicted sales figures from our product forum. I do not know if there is a more appropriate way to show my gratitude, but thank you"
Elvis Peng 和 Isaac Chiu 你們好,
對於你們給我的市場行銷策略和客戶服務的建議，我希望再次表達感謝。我希望和你們分享我們現在業績上面有很大的進展，並且收到了很多客戶正面的反應與肯定。附檔的Excel表格是我們目前預測的銷售統計數據以及論壇上的客戶評價。我不確定是否有更好的方式來表達我的感謝，只想跟你們說聲：謝謝。
Show the impact they have brought or where their words have lit your path, as this might be the thing that brightens up their day or be the (C)silver lining of the cloud when they are down. After all, we are only human, so are they.
告訴你的良師他們對你的影響力，他們所說的話如何照亮你的事業方向，讓他們充滿一天的好心情，或當他們低潮時，你的感謝將有如他們生命中的一道希望。畢竟，我們都是人，而他們也是。
口語詞彙
(1) grate on the ear 忠言逆耳
grate 有摩擦的意思。grate on the ear 摩擦耳朵，延伸意思就是忠言逆耳，或是所講的話很不中聽。
E.g. His advice was really grated on the ear.
他的建議真是忠言逆耳。
(2) Do whatever floats your boat 隨你所願，做你想做的
照字面意思，讓船浮起來不要沉下去，也就是怎麼都好、都可以。
E.g. A: Do you think I should hire a manager from outside or promote an employee in the division?
B: Do whatever floats your boat, my friend. After all, you are the boss.
A: 你覺得我應該從外部請一位主管，還是直接拔擢我們部門的員工呢？
B: 你想怎麼安排都行，畢竟，你才是這間公司的老闆。
