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This Is How a Great Mentor Could Boost Your Career and Life
Succeed With a Mentor
- Use your time looking for the mentor you are comfortable with.
- Share your goals and fears openly.
- Do not expect your mentor to spoon-feed you.
- Do not expect specific advice.
- Share your struggles and failures.
- Listen, research and apply your mentor's guidance.
- Show that you value your mentor's support.
- Do not abuse your relationship by expecting political support in the organization.
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Mentoring and Coaching
The terms mentoring and coaching are often mistakenly interchanged. Although they are similar, they are not the same when it comes to approach.
- Mentoring - long-term relationship focusing on the growth and development of the mentee with the mentor as the source of the wisdom, support, and knowledge.
- Coaching - short-term relationship focusing on strengthening traits and eliminating behaviors that diminishes one's performance.
History and Definition of Mentorship
The word "mentor" was first used in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" when Odysseus entrusted the care of his kingdom to Mentor who served as a teacher and overseer to Odysseus' son.
This is where mentor was derived meaning "a trusted councelor or guide."
Why Seek Out a Mentor
A mentor is not someone who gives you direct answers, but someone who challenges you to know the right answer.
And in life, you can't be spoon-fed all the time. The role of a mentor is to guide you and give you the wisdom in knowing the answer.
A Mentor Does and Does not
A mentor..
- Takes a long-range view of your growth and development.
- Helps you see the destination but does not give you the detailed map to get there.
- Offers encouragement and cheerleading, but not "how to" advice.
A mentor does not..
- Serve as a coach as explained above.
- Function as an advocate of yours in the organizational environment such as your boss would; the relationship is more informal.
- Tell you how to do things.
- Support you on transactional, short-term problems.
- Serve as a counselor or therapist.
The Mentee's Responsibilities
- Have the willingness to learn and be open to positive or negative feedback.
- Do not hesitate to ask for advice and use this chance to practice being a good listener.
- Let your mentor know what your goals are.
- Discuss with your mentor how you can best measure the success and effectiveness of your working relationship together.
- Always follow your appointments.
- Keep track of your discussions with your mentor and follow up specifically on those steps when you meet.
Succeed With a Mentor
- Use your time looking for the mentor you are comfortable with.
- Share your goals and fears openly.
- Do not expect your mentor to spoon-feed you.
- Do not expect specific advice.
- Share your struggles and failures.
- Listen, research and apply your mentor's guidance.
- Show that you value your mentor's support.
- Do not abuse your relationship by expecting political support in the organization.
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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.
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Mentoring
Mentoring is about being able pass knowledge to someone who would benefit from it.
Mentoring programs usually have four key elements:
- Improving performance
The Roles of a Mentor
- M-anage the relationship
- E-ncourage
- N-urture
- T-each
- O-ffer mutual respect
- R-espond to the learner's needs
Different Roles of the Mentor
- Learning Consultant: The mentor must help the learner to clarify his goals and identify the learning style needed.
- Coach: The mentor should have the will to help the learner explore the problem and try new ways of working.
- Counselor: When the learner is struggling to think, the mentor could listen, reflect, and clarify to help the learner gain insight.
- Adviser or Information Resource: Share insights with the learner for faster and better understanding.
- Role Model: Sometimes, the learner does not only learn from what the mentor teaches, but from how the mentor acts.
- Critical Friend: The mentor can also simply be a friend, however, it is the most difficult because it requires the willingness to listen, encourage, draw out, reflect, challenge, and provide feedback about ideas.
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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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