What's the difference between mentor and supervisor?

Mentor


Definition:

  • (n.) A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mentor's administrative or academic rank, rather than gender, was the chief determinant of sponsoring effectiveness.
  • (2) The chances of Sam Allardyce becoming the next England manager have been enhanced by his willingness to help the Football Association to mentor a young assistant who would be groomed as his successor.
  • (3) Activities include mentoring, help with employment and, increasingly, help with mental-health vulnerabilities.
  • (4) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
  • (5) One of Prime’s founder members, Linklaters, provides tutoring, mentoring, work experience, and careers events to 2,500 young people in Hackney each year through its Realising Aspirations programme , according to a company spokesperson.
  • (6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
  • (7) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
  • (8) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
  • (9) Here are our tips for breaking out of the rut: Find a mentor Is there a female leader in your organisation you admire?
  • (10) Graham has been a mentor to Zuckerberg since they met in 2005 and joined Facebook's board in 2009, but passed on the chance to buy into the company during its early funding rounds.
  • (11) Those chairmen who had mentors were more likely to have these characteristics: (1) to have completed a subspecialty fellowship, (2) to command a larger departmental budget (greater than $4 million), (3) to have been a board examiner before appointment, and (4) to have received support in obtaining their appointment from recognized leaders in the specialty.
  • (12) It was at sixth-form college in Luton that Saungweme signed up with Career Academies UK, a charity that helps young people find work experience and mentors.
  • (13) Finally, we try to recruit and mentor likely candidates for current or future vacancies.
  • (14) She attributes her own path to university and her Modern Heritage business partly to having a strong female role model in the shape of a business mentor.
  • (15) Nato's exit strategy in Afghanistan appeared to be in serious jeopardy on Tuesday, after it emerged that the US military command had set fresh limits on joint operations with Afghan troops in the wake of a rapid increase of "green-on-blue attacks" involving local soldiers turning their guns on their foreign mentors.
  • (16) Discussing the subject of youth unemployment, David Miliband said young people in work should mentor those out of work.
  • (17) Lendl and Mauresmo are former world No1s but he is an unsmiling martinet with a cutting line in sarcasm, she a mentor who chooses her words like a schoolteacher.
  • (18) The deposed leader was due to meet leftwing allies in Nicaragua today for an emergency summit likely to be dominated by Zelaya's mentor, the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez .
  • (19) Documents seen by the Guardian detail a schedule for the mayor to take the axe to funds currently directed towards mentoring, volunteering, supplementary schooling, healthy eating and services for young people excluded from schools.
  • (20) Over my career I have mentored and supported a range of different women.

Supervisor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.
  • (n.) A spectator; a looker-on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (2) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (3) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
  • (4) We reviewed the routines for providing information on drugs, and for training in the use of drugs and aids to medication in hospital and nursing homes by interviewing 11 ward supervisors.
  • (5) The authors compared supervisors' global and specific item ratings of psychiatric residents' performance in each of three years of training with ratings of these applicants prior to their admission to the program.
  • (6) Mentoring relationships experienced by Army Nurse Corps officers in head nurse or nursing supervisor roles were examined via a survey questionnaire.
  • (7) Respondents' perceptions of their supervisors' style adaptability were positively and significantly correlated with their perceptions of work-unit effectiveness.
  • (8) 34% of the house officers had an appointed supervisor compared with 54% in primary care.
  • (9) Later they were also assigned to interdisciplinary inpatient teams led by community psychiatry supervisors.
  • (10) The nerd may have been more in evidence early on - not least when he was doing his doctorate and ignored the advice of his Nobel prize-winning supervisor, Nikolaas Tinbergen, and opted for a stats fest, "a classic piece of Popperian science", instead of a fluffier study of animal behaviour - but it's still around.
  • (11) The leader of such a supervisors' group can be more helpful if he will see himself as a facilitator of essentially peer group observations rather than a transference interpreter or group teacher.
  • (12) Data published by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) showed that the banks were only forced to simulate losses on sovereign debt that they held for trading purposes and not for bonds they might hold to maturity on their banking books.
  • (13) The most pronounced finding was the importance of supervisors being pharmacists: satisfaction on five of six satisfaction subscales was related to whether one's supervisor was a pharmacist.
  • (14) Shapla has found a job at another factory but, due to her back injuries, as a sewing-machine operator, not a supervisor.
  • (15) Administrators, supervisors, and staff must be involved in this important process to attract and retain new as well as experienced nurses.
  • (16) Mohamed Saleh, the security supervisor for the Al Masry club, claimed that he too noticed people in the crowd whom he described as "strangers".
  • (17) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.
  • (18) A nursery supervisor with smear- and culture-positive pulmonary tuberculosis and a productive cough exposed 528 newborns over a three-month period before her disease was diagnosed.
  • (19) Combining the data from cutaneous malignant melanoma over both sexes and both registries the occupations with the highest incidence ratios (expressed as a percentage) were: airline pilots, incidence ratio (IR) = 273, (95% confidence limits 118-538); finance and insurance brokers IR = 245 (140-398); professional accountants IR = 208 (134-307); dentists IR = 207 (133-309); inspectors and supervisors in transport IR = 206 (133-304); pharmacists IR = 198 (115-318); professionals not elsewhere classified IR = 196 (155-243); judges IR = 196 (126-289); doctors IR = 188 (140-248); university teachers IR = 188 (110-302); and chemists IR = 188 (111-296).
  • (20) The radical, yet promising approach of eliminating evening and night shift nursing supervisors is discussed.