Mentorship!
Mentoring is a professional activity, a trusted relationship, a meaningful commitment. Mentors hold a very valuable key to your success; they’ve been where you want to go. Why try to reinvent the wheel when you can learn from a trusted advisor? Your mentor can tell you everything you need to know, including those things you wouldn’t necessarily find in the official “user’s manual.
Having a mentor also increases your visibility by providing new networking opportunities and identifying potential collaborators of influence within your field of expertise.your skill and talents get a boost and a brush up when someone is there to mentor you.
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When you feel like you are stuck into something and can’t figure out what’s cooking up in your career it is okay to consult an experienced person or a mentor who will guide you through your ups and downs.
Findmementor on looking to bridge the gap between mentors and mentees has launched an open platform where young professionals and students get a chance to book an appointment with the mentor of their choice decisively helping them identify their full potential and boost their career. It is really important to have a mentor in life.
They help us, guide us step by step towards learning new things and achieving our goals.
A good mentor needs to be more than just a successful individual. A good mentor must have the disposition and desire to develop other people. It requires a willingness to reflect on and share one’s own experiences, including one’s failures. Great mentors must be able to both “talk the talk” and “walk the walk.”
Qualities to look for in a mentor:
A desire to develop and help others. A good mentor is sincerely interested in helping someone else without any “official” reward. Good mentors do it because they genuinely want to see someone else succeed.
The ability and availability to commit real time and energy to the mentoring relationship. Good intentions aren’t enough-mentoring takes time!
Current and relevant industry or organizational knowledge, expertise, and/or skills. The best mentors have deep knowledge in an area that the mentee wishes to develop.
A willingness to share failures and personal experiences. Mentors need to share both their “how I did it right” and their “how I did it wrong” stories. Both experiences provide valuable opportunities for learning.
A growth mindset and learning attitude. The best teachers have always been and always will be those who remain, curious learners, themselves. Would you rather be advised by someone whose mind is shut because he knows it all or by someone whose mind is open because she is always looking to deepen her knowledge?
Skill in developing others. This includes the very real skills of active listening, asking powerful, open-ended questions, self-reflection, providing feedback and being able to share stories that include personal anecdotes, case examples, and honest insight. A mentoring relationship must be managed and nurtured. It is a joint venture that requires both parties to actively attend to its care and feeding. The chances of creating and sustaining a successful mentoring relationship are enhanced by adopting a few simple best practices:
Contact and response times: Who contacts whom? How? What are acceptable response times?
Meetings: Where, when, and how often? Are you meeting in person? On the phone? Virtually?
Confidentiality: What’s shareable and what isn’t?
Focus: What are the parameters of the mentoring? What’s in and out of bounds?
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Feedback: What are the expectations around giving and receiving feedback?
Goals and accountability: What would each party want from this experience? How does the mentee want the mentor to hold her accountable? How does the mentor want the mentee to hold her accountable.