Are you using your knowledge and skills to mentor others?
Mentoring is one of the most powerful tools for developing others. Mentees have found that mentoring has:
- Guided them around major procedural obstacles and pitfalls
- Significantly influenced their attitudes and professional outlook
- Widened their professional networks
- Enhanced their training and career development
- Improved their performance and results by challenging their assumptions
It’s not just mentees that benefit. Learning and practising mentoring skills makes mentors better leaders, communicators and human beings. And that translates through to benefits for the organisation.
Research shows that employee retention rates are higher for those who are engaged in mentoring. And mentees are promoted five times more often than those not in a mentoring programme
But sharing your knowledge and experience in a way that motivates and empowers can be a challenge.