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Training builds capability. Mentoring builds judgment.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats learning as controlled exposure to decision consequence, not information delivery. 1. Knowledge Without Judgment Is Fragile Information can be memorized. Judgment must be earned. Val Sklarov distinguishes: Knowing what to do Knowing when not to do it True …

In Val Sklarov’s framework, mentoring is not guidance by authority but calibration through exposure. Training fails when it transfers information without reshaping cognitive posture. True development emerges when thinking patterns are apprenticed, not instructed. 1️⃣ Cognitive Apprenticeship Foundation Val Sklarov defines mentoring as cognitive proximity, not hierarchical teaching. Learning accelerates …