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.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
WITH ALL THE BEST WISHES FOR 2009.
LET IT BE A GOOD MENTORING YEAR…
Myth about mentoring #3 ADVICE
Myth:
The mentor is giving advice and the adept listen.
Fact:
Mentoring is about getting others to succeed, guide, give support and help to network.
Mentoring is about getting others to succeed, guide, give support and help to network.
A good mentor can make the difference in navigating your professional path
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.
Because mentors can provide excellent counsel, companies often provide a formal way for junior employees to partner with senior-level staff. However, seeking a mentor within one’s own company has both advantages and setbacks.
Myth about mentoring #2 GENDER
Myth:
The mentor is a man and the adept/mentee are a women.
Fact:
Gender is immaterial, women are as good mentors than men. It`s all about the genuine interest.
Mentoring in front of us or behind us?
Society today is rediscovering that the process of learning and maturing needs time and many kinds of relationships.
The resurgence of mentoring in almost every occupational field and area of life is a response to this discovery. "Please mentor me," is the spoken and unspoken request
expressed by so many. What do they mean? How do people get into it? …
Mentoring is as old as civilization itself. Through this natural relational process,
experience and values pass from one generation to another. Throughout human history, mentoring was the primary means of passing on knowledge and skills in every field in every culture. But in the modem age, the learning process shifted. It now relies primarily on computers, classrooms, books, and videos. Thus, today the relational connection between the knowledge and experience giver (mentor) and the receiver (adept) has weakened or is nonexistent.
They are talking more about coaching than mentoring in my country and we have a lot of certifications in coaching, but none in mentoring. Probably is it because mentoring is based on volunteering but in the future we have to get some more structure in the business. Write articles, blogs and use the media. And then we have to make some certification rules. It is a important job.
My shortest training would be a 3 hours training in “The Big Five” and even with little time to practice the tools, the participants was very happy.
So if anyone of you have some stories about mentoring you would like to share, send it to me and I will post it on my blog. Together we can make mentoring better for more people and their careers.
Myth about mentoring #1 AGE
A lot is said about mentoring, some of it is true, and some are untrue or myth. I would like to present some her.
Myth:
The mentor is a old man and the adept/mentee are a young person.
Fact:
It`s not about age, but a genuine interest, knowledge, experience and development.
Some of the big questions in life…
Alan Wilson remembered when he’d been told that her mother’s cancer had spread; she had taken his hand and said: “Alan, you are my gift to the world,” she had said. “You will make a bigger difference in it than I.”
What else are there to say??? She had a big trust in him, but at the same time you are in the world to make a change, not only to survive…
And Alans sister said: “Just do what you love, and the impact will follow”
It is so beautiful. I say it all the time to my students both in universities and in mentoring program. Make a change, not only survive…
How to keep your talents?
Harvard Business Review means that the consulting industry have to start mentoring the talents more than today.
After many years with the focus on coaching Harvard Business Review means that mentoring is the next big topic. The consulting business up to the finance crises was “only” thinking about making the money, and not thinking about develop new talents.
It is about time to put out the word mentoring, the ”new” buzz word. It is almost as it is create just for the purpose to hold the young talents motivated and that they want to stick to their employer.
Frustrated employer ignored are about to quit, finding a new company who appreciate them more. And not only are they leaving, and you must find a new person, but they are leaving with central competence. And therefore is it important to create mentor program inside the company for today’s young talent.
Trainings in Trondheim
As I told you before I went to Trondheim in Norway to hold two seminars. Both for the participants in JCI Evolutions Mentorprogram for young people in Young Enterprice Norway.
On saturday we started at 10 am and were working with strenght, posibilities and SMART-goals up to 16 pm with all the adepts in the program. They were very interesting in the subject and real active all day. This is going to be the platform for further development trough the program and especially for the AM-meetings (Adept and Mentor meetings) every month.
Oh I love to meet so many positive and active young people and spend time with them, I actually learn as lot as them.
On sunday we started at 11 am to train all the mentors, from businesses around in the county. They were also very positive and active through out the wholde session, working with «The Big Five». Tools for AM-meetings.
I look forward t be hearing from the project group next time.