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About Mentoring |
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What does mentoring really mean?
Benefits of Mentoring
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Program Roles |
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The Employer
The Mentor
The Mentee
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General Guidelines |
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Other Resources |
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Related Sites
Publications
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Conversations |
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Complementing Each Other's Strengths: Two Perspectives
Why is mentoring important?
How has being mentored advanced your career?
How has your company benefited from you being a mentor?
How does your company encourage mentoring?
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Mentoring Program Organization
Role of the Employer:
- Foster a professional work setting that provides a stimulating, stable, and rewarding environment. It will help to attract, retain, and develop employees in providing professional services to clients.
- Focus senior resources on the mentoring issue.
- Provide training for mentors regarding program expectation and effective techniques.
- Establish and implement the mentoring program.
- Monitor the performance of the mentoring procedures.
Role of the Mentor:
The mentor is a consistent, comprehensive advisor, advocate, and coach--as opposed to a more technical, project-specific teacher.
As Individual
- Accept the mentee for what he/she is.
- Be supportive and realistic.
- Be honest and encouraging.
- Build confidence in your mentee.
- Maintain open and clear lines of communication.
- Be respectful of the mentee's social and cultural environment.
- Offer useful information.
- Teach networking and make introductions.
- Be willing to give open and honest feedback about the mentoring program to both the mentee and the employer.
As Career Coach
- Advise the mentee on career paths and technical development opportunities within the organization and in professional societies.
- Help the mentee design his/her skills and career goals.
- Motivate the mentee to initiate activities on his/her own behalf and to perform at his/her highest level.
- Guide the mentee by providing him/her with frank, contructive information and feedback.
As Advocate
- Advise the mentee on official and unofficial organizational practices that may be helpful in developing their full professional potential.
- Intercede, where appropriate, with personnel up, down, and across the organization to provide the mentee with challenging development opportunities.
Role of the Mentee:
- Assess your development needs and goals.
- Demonstrate an interest in your development and be proactive about pursuing opportunities.
- Develop a plan for your mentoring relationship and be prepared to discuss
- Schedule a meeting with your mentor.
- Communicate your development needs and goals to your mentor.
- Think of and discuss possible mentoring activities.
- Maintain open and clear lines of communication.
- Listen carefully to the mentor.
- Accept the mentor for what he/she is.
- Have confidence.
- Do not expect the mentor to work miracles for you.
- Be flexible in the mentoring relationship.
- Be willing to give open and honest feedback about the mentoring program.
- Use the experience, knowledge, and wisdom of the mentor.
- Do not become intimidated.
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