Mentoring has evolved to embrace range of activities where an experienced individual / well wisher responds to queries, shares experience, extend moral support, guidance and counselling to the mentee as needed. Mentoring is an involved professional relationship beyond formal boundaries
Mentoring is: morally support, extend confidence and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they maximise their potential, develop skills, improve performance and become the person they want to be. Some key characteristics of mentoring are:
- it is non-directive
- responsibility for outcome lies with the mentee
- build confidence, be realistic, helps maximise potential, develop skills, improve mentee performance enabling growth and development of the mentee
- mentor helps grow your skills, make better decisions, and gain new perspectives on your life and career. Mentor leverages her/his experience to guide the mentee on career or life. Mentor is a person you can look to for moral support, direction and confidence building
- Role of a mentor is to put all the experience they’ve accumulated throughout their career and life for the benefit of the mentee without obligations or barriers for sharing and communication, an unbounded professional relationship. In a mentoring relationship, both the mentee and the mentor learn from the relationship.