Know what career paths look like and make sure your protege is progressing. Get them experience - progressively harder projects. I know that's not specific, b

Know what career paths look like and make sure your protege is progressing. Get them experience - progressively harder projects. 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.) Of course there's http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentorship http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentorship Thanks for giving back!