Mentoring a Qualitative

approach!!!
Purpose> Establish emotional ownership of the organisartion

Process> Explore through IPR of continuing nature

Person> One who is competent / comfortable in mentoring

What is Mentoring ?
• One which is a
– Motivating
– Encouraging experimentation
– Nurturing
– Trusting
– Open minded
– Relationship
What mentoring is…….
#It is a relationship and not a task..
#And a ‘sentient’ relationship and not a
reporting relationship.
Benchmarking a Mentor
» Patience
• Motivation
» Perseverance

» Knowledge
• Encouragement
» Willingness to share

» Overlook faults
• Nurturing
» Overtake Limitations
Mentoring Benchmarks…..
Supporting
Trusting
Responsive

» Seeking Information
• Open-minded
» Sieving information

» Continuing
• Relationship
» Cordial
Establishing a contact
• ‘Define ‘ere you Refine’.
• Core personality traits
need to be defined before
the linkage is established.
• Both the mentor and the
mentee should be profiled
through a process before
the linkage is established.
 Qualities which qualify comfort

• Since the mentor is expected to provide

– Attitudinal support
– Behavioral Comfort &
– Communicational Competence

• To the Mentee
– It is advisable to process the mentor through
– Some psychometric instrument to identify the
core personality.
What does a mentor expect from
the organisation ?
• An atmosphere /
ambience of support
• Recognition of the
extra responsibility
• An acceptable
selection process.
( not at random )
• Non-interference
• Open mindedness
 Another one…..
• It is important to ‘choose’ a mentor from a
department / discipline which is not the same as
the mentee.

• Choose only those are apparently ‘person’

oriented and not rigid performance oriented.

• Option to review the relationship always lies

with the organisation.
Some psychometrics ……..

• Hartmans Profile

• Dr Luscher Color Test

• MBTI
Our Recommendations
• We would recommend
using of ‘MBTI’ for the
Mentors
• Myer & Briggs Type Indicator
test based on Dr Carl Jung’s
psychological theory that
each of us possess four pairs
of personality traits,
• Hartman’s Profile for the
mentees’ to identify the basic
/ core personality levels.
 What are “preferences”?

First sign your name in the work area as you normally do.

Now, sign your name again in the work area, but this time use your
other hand.
What is “ MBTI”

• It recognises four
pairs of traits in our
personality traits;

• Extraversion & Introversion

• Sensing & Intuitive

• Thinking Feeling

• Judging & Perceiving

Carl G. Jung

Carl Gustav Jung, a

Swiss psychiatrist
(1875 – 1961)
developed a theory of
personality.

Differences between
people are not random,
instead they form
patterns – types.
Katharine C. Briggs

Katharine C. Briggs (1875 –

1968), an American, read
Jung’s Psychological Types in
1923.

She spent the next 20 years

studying, developing, and
applying Jung’s theory.
Isabel Briggs Myers

Isabel Briggs Myers (1897 –

1980) developed Jung’s
theory in partnership with
Briggs.

Beginning in 1943, she

developed questions that
became the Myers-Briggs
Type Indicator.
E - I Key Words
I
E
Reflective
Active
Inward
Outward
Reserved
Sociable
Privacy
People
Quiet
Expressive
Breadth Depth
S-N Key Words

S N
Specifics Patterns
Present Future
Practical Imaginative
Facts Associations
Literal Thematic
Experience Variety
Hands ON Hands OFF
T-F Key Words

T F
Logical Compassionate
Analytical Personal
Justice Kindness
Fairness Harmony
Critique Appreciate
Analyze Empathize
Principles Values
J-P Key Words

J P
Organized Flexible
Structure Flow
Manage Experience
Decisive Curious
Deliberate Spontaneous
Closure Openness
Plan Emerge
Productive Receptive
Administering the MBTI

• The philosophy underlying the instrument

• MBTI

• Is that all of us possess the earlier

mentioned ‘traits’ . But in varying degrees
and also we prefer one trait a over the other
m in view of our core personality traits.

• Let us now process ourselves through MBTI.

What next !!!!!!

• We shall then arrive at the ‘Best-fit’

combination to identify a comfortable Mentor
mentee relationship

• We could then use Hartman’s profile to

identify the basic personality factors of the
mentee.’

• Bring them together