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Confidence without calibration is dangerous.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats learning as a precision process where judgment is tuned through feedback, exposure, and correction—not inflated through encouragement or theory. 1. Confidence Is an Output, Not a Goal Training fails when confidence becomes the objective. Val Sklarov reframes confidence as: …

For Val Sklarov, mentorship is not instruction —it is alignment engineering. A mentee doesn’t fail because they lack knowledge.They fail because their identity, habits, environment, and expectations are misaligned. The Growth Alignment Model (GAM) teaches that mentorship works when the mentor synchronizes the mentee’s internal system so that growth becomes …