Mentoring

Mentoring
► Mentoring is a long standing form of
training, learning and development and an
increasingly popular tool for supporting
personal development.
► It is the long term passing on of support,
guidance and advice. It is a relationship
where a more experienced colleague uses
their greater knowledge and understanding
of the work to support the development of
more junior or inexperienced staff member.
► Mentoring is:
 Supportive form of development
 Helping individual to manage career
and improve skills
 Personal issue could be discussed for
more productivity
 It impacts on both organizational
and individual goals.
 Coaching & Mentoring
► Coaching: ► Mentoring:
 Relationship for  Relationship for long
short time time
 More Structured &  More informal and
scheduled meetings on mentored
meetings individual need basis
 Usually experience  Mentor usually a senior
in client’s person who passes his
occupational role. experience
 Focused on  Focused on career and
specific & job personal development to
related issues groomed professionally
 Benefit of Mentoring
► Development outcomes of knowledge, technical
and behavioral improvement effects both mentee
and organization.
► Better management of career goals.
► Mentor satisfied to develop their colleague and
passing their knowledge, skills and expertise.
► Increase confidence and self awareness to helps
in building performance and contribution.
 Three stages of mentoring model
► Exploration
 Listen, ask open question and negotiate on
agenda.
► New understanding
 Listen & challenge, ask questions, recognize
strength & weakness and establish priorities.
► Action planning
 Encourage innovative thinking, helps in
decisions and problem, agree action plan and
monitor progress.
 Types of mentoring
► Developmental Mentoring
 Helping someone to develop. The mentored employee
sets the agenda based on their own development needs
and the mentor provides insight and guidance helping
achieve the desired goals.
► Sponsorship Mentoring
 In this mentoring, mentee is dependent. Here the
mentor intervenes on mentee’s behalf and there is
normally one way learning.
► Social Mentoring
 Increasingly mentoring is being used to develop
productive relationships in society.
When is best development intervention?
► Induction
► Support for development
► Career progression
► On the job learning
► New projects
► New job transition
► Within change programs
Thank You