Roles of a Mentor
- Advisor and Coach - provides advice, guidance,and feedback.
- Champion and Cheerleader - inspires and motivates the mentee to try new things, move out of comfort zone, and to always be optimistic.
- Resource and Recommendations - suggesting resources that could help with personal development and growth such as books, workshops, organizations, etc.
- Devil's Advocate and Truth-sayer - honest and provides tough feedback to help inspire mentees to push forward, push them to take risks, and help them to always consider consequences before making decisions.
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- Identify learning goals and style and measure success for the mentoring relationship.
- Be open and seek feedback.
- Be active in learning.
- Schedule and attend mentor appointments.
- Follow through on commitments and take informed risks as they try new options and behaviors in support of career and development goals.
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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.
- 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 relevant knowledge, expertise, or skills needed by the mentee.
- Have the will to share his experiences, event the bad ones.
- With a growth mindset and learning attitude.
- Possesses the skills to help develop others.
Mentoring is about being able pass knowledge to someone who would benefit from it.
Mentoring programs usually have four key elements:
- Improving performance
- Career development
- Counselling
- Sharing knowledge
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