Do You Know What Mentoring Is?

Mentoring is a process or relation in which a wise person guides or provides knowledge to a less experienced person. A mentor an expert in some particular field and and and can help you when you get stuck somewhere and can be older or younger than you. Having a guide in life is an astounding opportunity.  A guide can help you in goal setting, networking, identifying available resources, and exploring career options.

In What Role Are You?

The one who provides knowledge in any given field is known as a mentor. In contrast, the one who seeks knowledge is a mentee. Many people confuse mentoring with coaching. The former is a long-term commitment, while coaching is for a finite period. The mentor’s responsibility is to guide and encourage you but will not tell you what to do or how to do it: That is your decision. However, a coach works on strengthening and improving your weaknesses and flaws. He gives you an exact guideline to follow.

Do You Have The Qualities Of A Mentor?

Certain qualities identify a person as a mentor. Naturally, a mentor should be an expert in a particular field and have knowledge and experience in this field.

Required Skills For Mentoring

• Communication skills: A mentor should have excellent communication skills. Also, he/she must be good at conveying their message to others and can easily interact with other people.
• Positive attitude: After all, it gives confidence to the person that the mentor can deal with any problem in their life. Fair and positive thinking eliminates many issues.
• Committed with a clear vision: A mentor should have an unobstructed view of their future targets and goals.
• Eager to learn: We all learn something new in our routine life. A real mentor is ready to learn new skills in his/her life. He/she does not hesitate to share anything with his/her mentee. However, it is wise not to doubt the knowledge and experience of a guide. Also, it is better that you be open to learning once a mentor is chosen. 

Do You Know The Benefits Of Mentoring?

The system benefits both mentor and mentee. It helps in raising the standards and efficiency of employees of a company. Thus the productivity of the organization increases.

Benefits Of Mentors:

• Gets a chance to guide and interact with fresh employees having creative and innovative ideas.
• Allows the fulfillment of your incomplete dreams through new employees.
• Helps in recognizing you as a subject matter expert.
• Updates the skills of the mentees with time while nurturing fresh talent.

Benefits Of Mentees:

• Mentee receives the opportunity where he/she can develop new skills under the supervision of an experienced person.
• Achieves the ability to choose a clear career path.
• Develops connections with people.
• The system increases your recognition and visibility in the company.

Key Aspects Of Mentoring

It requires cooperation from both ends of the relation. It is a relationship built on mutual understanding. The primary step of starting a mentorship in an organization is:

Selection of mentor and mentee: A mentor is selected according to the ‘mentee’s requirements.

• Trust and Respect:  Mutual understanding is a must in the relation.  When your mentee respects you and your personal space, only then does it works in the best way. Also, the Mentee’s trust in the relationship is a building block of their relation.  Provided the mentee trusts the system and his guide, only then can the mentee develop some change.
• Goals and Challenges:  There are some goals to achieve.  While achieving these goals, both mentor and mentee can face many challenges.  However, if both guide and the guided work together to overcome these challenges, they can quickly make their common goals.
• Passion and inspiration:  The Mentor must be passionate and eager to learn, while the master should work like inspiration.  So, their passion and inspiration help them to acquire their goals by overcoming their challenges.
• Listening to each other’s viewpoint:  Both the guide and the guided should be patient and listen to each other’s concerns. Sometimes even mentors can get a chance to learn something new and innovative from the mentee.

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