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25 Sep 2024 | |
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What is mentoring?
Mentoring is a relationship in which an individual supports someone by sharing their professional knowledge and experiences and uses key skills and personal attributes to enable them to achieve their goals.
The mentoring relationship is focused on enabling a mentee to:-
Mentoring isn’t primarily about giving advice, telling the mentee to ‘do it the way I did it’. It is much more about motivating and empowering the other person to identify their own issues and goals. Mentoring is not coaching, counselling or therapy. Mentors cannot and are not expected to have all the answers. To be effective, mentors need to encourage their mentee to come up with their own solutions and action plans.
Getting the most out of mentoring
Having a role model to support, advise and guide you, can help you aim high and achieve your full potential.
Why it is good to have a mentor
A mentor is a trusted person with experience who can:
Having a mentor is useful at any stage of your career.
Mentees are encouraged to:-
The frequency and length of the mentoring partnership should be discussed and agreed at the outset.
Please alert the Careers team to any concerns or breakdown in the mentoring relationship.
Mentors are encouraged to:-
Elevate Mentors can help with a variety of different skills and challenges. For example:
Selecting a degree/university
Furthering careers
Settling into an industry
Sharing experience / personal development
Ideas for general questions to ask
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