Who Benefits from Mentoring

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Who Benefits from Mentoring? Changing the way
people think
Andy Hayman, Exemplas October 2006
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Control over the way we think

• Modern psychology has taught us that we choose
  how we think.
• In the past, experts believed that we were
  pre-programmed in our early years and had little
  control over our thinking.
• Not any more.
• The good news is that we can choose to think that
  we are in charge of our destiny and alter our
  behaviour accordingly.
• We can decide to ramp-up our thinking to become
  more pro-active, enterprising, resourceful and
  dynamic.
• Fiona Harrold, The 7 Rules of Success

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Develop the person
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Benefits to Mentors

• Opportunities for experienced professionals to
  strengthen their understanding and improve
  communication skills
• Leadership, teaching and coaching skills are
  enhanced and enables them to become more
  reflective practitioners
• Creates new support networks
• Satisfaction by helping somebody develop
• Demonstrates professionalism and commitment
• Mentees provide an insight to the concerns and
  issues which impact on less experienced people
• Enhances an organisation's culture and
  communication

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Benefits to Mentees

• Promotes a professional relationship that fosters
  guidance and support during the mentees
  development
• Can increase self-confidence of as she becomes
  familiar with a new role, increased
  responsibilities, or a new organisational culture
• Challenges mentees to do things differently, set
  new goals and achieve at higher personal and/or
  professional standards
• Provides role modelling for professional
  leadership and facilitates the development of
  increased competencies and stronger interpersonal
  skills

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Benefits to Organisations

• Contributes to a positive organisational climate
• Can increase employee satisfaction and retention
  by reducing the employees sense of isolation
• Can result in improved employee job performance,
  contribute to faster learning curves, and result
  in better trained staff
• Promotes a positive image of the organisation and
  reflects employee focused values
• Effective mentoring can be one of the best tools
  for building diversity

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Mentoring helps Develop the person

• When organisations work well its always due to
  emotional maturity and integrity, which together
  enables self-discipline and right thinking and
  actions
• Compassion helps you sustain people, and to
  foster a culture of cooperation and mutual
  support
• Compassion is the bedrock of tolerance and
  understanding, which governs the effectiveness of
  internal and external communications and
  team-working
• Help people to learn and develop in whatever way
  they want and they quite naturally become more
  positive, productive and valuable to your
  organisation

Alan Chapman www.businessballs.com
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