This time I have a short message, very short, but very important. This is sometthing that a mentor never, never can forget:
Start were the adept is, and if she`s nowhere, so start there…
Follow that, and you will be a good mentor.
Mentoring isn’t just advice – it’s the shortcut to sustainable success
This time I have a short message, very short, but very important. This is sometthing that a mentor never, never can forget:
Start were the adept is, and if she`s nowhere, so start there…
Follow that, and you will be a good mentor.
I came across a company, called Perrone-Ambrose Associates and they are providing practical and impactful mentoring and coaching programs, tools, and services today for shaping the leaders of tomorrow.
They were saying that if your organization is talking about certain issues, like:
·We need to do something to prepare people for leadership positions.
·We hire and train people who then leave to work for our competitors.
·Our people come up through one part of the organization and that’s all they know.
·Our managerial and leadership ranks lack diversity.
It`s time to call for a intern mentor program. If you want to know more about mentor program send me an email on teg@trainifique.com
Myth:
The mentor is done learning and know everything and adept is there to learn.
Fact:
The person who thinks he is finish learning is finish. The mentor also has to work hard to develop his competence. Mentoring is mutual learning.
Good mentoring relationship starts with preparation by both parties. As a mentor you should be as aware as possible of what you have to contribute and how your potential contributions can match the needs of the adept.
The adepts too, might prepare a list of questions about what they hope to get out of the mentoring relationship.
The following checklist will give you an idea of the things you will benefit from clarifying as a mentor:
This is a good step by step guide from the Mentoring specialist Judith Germain on how to embed a peer to peer mentoring programme within an internal comms department.
Read more her http://maverickmastery.com/leadership/how-to-implement-peer-to-peer-mentoring/
Anyone care to comment that one?
Myth:
The mentor is giving advice and the adept listen.
This is so thru and what it`s all about. Taylor Lindstrom writes about how mentors can help with career development in San Francisco Chronicle (www.sfgate.com).
Taylor Lindstrom writes about how mentors can help with career development and Kathleen Pytleski, senior vice president of Mentium (www.menttium.com), a mentor-mentee matching company, recommends that employees find a mentor who has the skills that they may not already have. «Look for someone who has a skill set you want to develop, someone whose talents you admire. “This person’s a good leader — I want to be a good leader like that”, she says.