Building Personal and Career Development

Personal and Career development

Mentoring is not counselling, because there is an assumption that the mentees involved in mentoring are well enough to engage in it on the above terms. If a mentee has sufficient emotional difficulties they will either need a trained counsellor to provide them with support in addition to a highly trained mentor or will simply need counselling.

Mentoring isn’t coaching;

Mentors do offer some of their life experiences and knowledge to help mentees, but still try not to be directive or to take too much control of the relationship. Coaching typically requires minimal and highly controlled sharing of experience and knowledge. It is important to recognise, however, that the skills involved in mentoring, coaching and counselling have a huge overlap of which empathy, listening and asking questions are key.

What is the role of a mentor?

The knowledge, advice and resources a mentor shares depend on the format and goals of a specific mentoring relationship. A mentor may share with a mentee (or protege) information about his or her own career path, as well as provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, and role modelling.

What does mentoring mean to you?

Mentoring is a powerful personal and career development tool that can enable the mentee to achieve or exceed their life’s goals and aspirations. A mentor according to Merriam-Webster is ‘a trusted counsellor or guide’. Depending upon the mentee’s needs a mentor: Shares knowledge and life experiences.

What is Clutterbuck mentoring?

“Mentoring involves primarily listening with empathy, sharing experience (usually mutually), professional friendship, developing insight through reflection, being a sounding board, encouraging” – David Clutterbuck. “Mentoring is an intense work relationship between senior and junior organisational members.

A mentor in the workplace is someone who is capable of providing guidance to a less-experienced employee, the mentee. A mentor can be an employee of the same company or perhaps a professional from an outside company.

Definition; The roots of the mentoring practice are lost in antiquity. … Mentoring is personal, voluntary and unpaid, confidential and provided by an experienced person called the “mentor” to another person the “mentee” in the pursuing of their project.

Mentoring involves sharing your knowledge, skills and experience to help your mentee progress to seek new opportunities in life/challenges/project and have a clearer idea of the direction needed to take.

Mentoring consists of a long-term relationship focused on supporting the growth and development of the mentee. The mentor becomes a source of wisdom, teaching and support, but not someone who observes and advises on specific actions or behavioural changes in daily work.

Your mentor will:

  1. Offer an outside perspective on both you and your business.
  2. Listen confidentially to the things that are worrying you.
  3. Help you by sharing their own experience of both failure and success.
  4. Give friendly, unbiased support.
  5. Provide honest and constructive feedback.

A Chance to Give Back. Mentees are not the only people who benefit from business mentoring. Business mentors also experience benefits thanks to collaborative learning. By helping others improve their business skills, business mentors may improve their own skills.

Mentors can develop leadership skills and gain a personal sense of satisfaction from knowing that they’ve helped someone. Mentees can expand their knowledge and skills, gain valuable advice from a more experienced person and build their professional networks.

  • Improve communication and personal skills.
  • Develop leadership and management qualities.
  • Reinforce your own study skills and knowledge of your subject(s)
  • Increase your confidence and motivation.
  • Engage in a volunteering opportunity, valued by employers.
  • Enhance your CV.

How To Be A Great Mentee

    • Take action. Your mentor isn’t there to do the work for you we are here to help you do your work better.
    • Ask questions. Curiosity will serve you well as a mentee.
    • Don’t be afraid to disagree.
    • Be open to feedback.
    • Be clear on your needs.
    • Respect your mentor.
    • Be committed.

Get in touch

If you want to find out about our mentorship programme, you can reach us our email or use the link below;

info@strategicouncil.org

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