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MENTORING
Mentoring is where one individual provides support, encouragement and information to another, based on their knowledge, life and experience relative to the mentoring subject. Mentoring often provides a two-way learning experience for both mentor and mentee, which can encourage deep satisfaction and numerous benefits in many personal, career, organisational and developmental areas.
Anyone who could use:
- help during a transition
- a guide in a new field
- a coach to share goals
- a role-model to demonstrate desirable behaviours and attitudes
- information or expertise beyond current experience
- new challenges
- vision to see potential and possibilities
For Mentors...
- Development of management, leadership and communication skills
- A learning opportunity which will provide exposure to new ideas and ways of thinking
- Helping develop and support our leaders of tomorrow
- Personal satisfaction in making a contribution through sharing your ideas and experience
- Transferral of knowledge
- Increased respect, prestige, confidence and self esteem
- Contributing to your career development track record
For Mentees...
- Increase in confidence and self-esteem
- Personal growth and support for achieving goals
- Advancement of knowledge, networking and communication skills
- Increased clarity in personal direction & development of ideas
- Development of skills to enable better career prospects and choices
- Gathering ideas and techniques for balancing work, life and family
- A learning opportunity which will provide exposure to new ideas and ways of thinking
For companies and organisations...
- Enhanced leadership, interpersonal and management skills of mentor managers
- Increase in employee motivation, work satisfaction, commitment and loyalty
- Increased ability to attract and retain excellent staff
- Increase in employees sense of being valued by the organisation, through the provision of career development and networking opportunities; and the recognition of individual contributions
- Retaining corporate knowledge and sharing of organisational culture and values
- Establishing staff support networks during periods of organisational change and low staff morale
- Decrease in staff turnover
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