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According to research, mentorship helps mentors and mentees succeed with job promotion, salary growth, and decreased burnout, and it also improves institutional retention. A recent study from Olivet Nazarene University illustrates that 76% of 3,000 surveyed American professionals believe mentorship is important, yet only 37% actually have a mentor. Equally as illuminating is that 61% of survey respondents explained that they never asked someone to be their mentor. Instead, the mentoring relationship developed naturally.