What does a Mentor Do?
- Set high expectations of performance or growth
- Encourage winning behaviour
- Offer challenging ideas
- Help build self-confidence
- Encourage ethical or values driven behaviour
- Offer friendship
- Listen to personal problems
- Stand by their mentees in critical situations or in times of challenge
- Confront negative behaviours and attitudes
- Provide growth experiences
- Share critical knowledge
- Teach by example
- Coach their mentees
- Offer wise counsel
- Inspire their mentees
- Offer quotable quotes
- Offer encouragement
- Trigger self-awareness
- Assist with their mentee’s careers
- Assist there mentees to flourish in the art of life
Mentoring is an ongoing relationship where there is a commitment to growth from both you, the Mentee and the Mentor. It is a relationship that is free of power, it is a two-way mutually beneficial learning situation in which the mentor:
- Provides advice
- Teaches using a low pressure, self-discovery approach
- Helps you to achieve your specific business outcomes
- Shares their knowledge and experiences
- Assists you to know yourself, who you are and what you want to achieve
- Advice on developing strengths and overcoming weaknesses
- Helps you develop connections and relationships that will be beneficial to you
