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4 Ways to Be a Better Mentor to Your Employees
Find a unique connection
Build and maintain a unique connection with the employee, using your listening skills and attention to detail. Avoid the one-size-fits-all approach.
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Find a matching mentee
If you decide on becoming a mentor, you might want to consider choosing a mentee who shares your interests. It will make everyone's life easier. Moreover, you will also be able to provide more ...
Building effective mentoring relationships
Mentoring requires having a clear idea of how the sessions themselves are to happen.
Make sure that from the very beginning you communicate to your mentee exactly how all is going to take place: how often, where, how, etc. Get to know the other and use all the means you dispose of in order to help him or her reach the desired goal.
A mentor's real purpose
More than giving directions, a mentor is supposed to provide the so-called pieces of supportive advice, which will enable the mentee to make up her or his mind, based on their own beliefs.
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Personal Connection
A sense of connection and belonging are sentiments that are helpful for building “affective trust” – a form of trust based on emotional bond and interpersonal relatedness.
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Statistics On Remote Workers
- Loneliness was reported as the biggest downside for 21% of remote employees, and one of the reasons that makes them more likely to quit.
- Most remote managers say they’d be more inclined to stay if they had more friends at work.
- Individuals who have 15 minutes to socialize with colleagues have a 20% increase in performance over their peers who don't.
- Positive social relationships are correlated with better life expectancy.
Dynamic Icebreakers
If your icebreaker questions are intriguing, cheeky, humorous – the answers you receive will be, too.
Many remote teams will kick off their weekly meeting with an icebreaker question or insert it during their morning stand-up meeting. Even more popular is asking a series of icebreaker questions during the onboarding process when hiring someone.
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What Makes a Good Mentor
- Sincere and have the desire to develop and help others even without any price.
- Prepared to commit time and energy to the mentoring relationship.
- Have the relev...
What Makes a Good Mentee
- He's committed to expanding capabilities and focused on achieving professional results.
- Clear about their career goals, needs, and wants.
- Willing to ask for help.
- Able to seek and accept positive or negative feedback.
- Personally responsible and accountable.
- Ready, willing, and able to meet on a regular basis.
The Mentoring Relationship
To develop a successful mentoring relationships:
- Design the Alliance. Both parties must have an agreement on the contact and response times, meetings, confidentiality, focus, feedback, and goals and accountability.
- Get to Know Each Other. It is important to have a strong relationship and trust before focusing on the problem.
- Set the Agenda. Be clear on the purpose and goals of the program.
- Reflect and Evaluate. Know if there is a progress or development gained from the mentoring every few meetings.
- Closeout. Before parting ways, have a closure with each other. Reflect and appreciate what both parties have learned and gained from the experience.