Briefly summarize Without self-confidence in general, can you trust your own decisions and solutions? If you don't trust your own decision-making and problem-solving skills how can you feel self-confident? If you lack sound decision-making and problem-solving skills your selfassuredness becomes cockiness - a hazard rather than a benefit for organisations. These basic skills do not always make it onto management or leadership training courses. Critical thinking skills can be learned but it takes some skill to teach them. It is actually a big ask for mentors to be entrusted with developing decision-making and problem-solving skills in their mentees. It is one thing to provide career guidance and open doors to networks, it is another altogether for a manager not normally accountable for learning and development to be expected to role model or teach decision-making and problem-solving skills, or even know where to refer the mentee for such training