Mentoring benefits

In what ways does mentoring benefit change ... 

Development. Mentoring relationships are assumed to offer reciprocal benefits for mentors and mentees. Many corporations believe that mentoring programs may offer the optimal... 

Written support packs and workshops were utilized to prepare mentors and mentees for the scheme. The support packs covered topics such as the skills needed for mentoring, the ethos of mentoring and information on its benefits, whilst the workshops were more practical in nature, addressing the following aspects ... 

A formal evaluation of the 10 mentoring pairs has not yet taken place although some anecdotal evidence suggests that the scheme is beginning to benefit some businesses. Plans to carry out an evaluation do exist, and the methods to be employed are likely to involve both joint as well as separate intermews with mentors and mentees. 

Based on their long-standing experience with mentoring schemes, Clutterbuck Associates report that their clients consistently point to the following as benefits of implementing graduate schemes ... 

Table 3.1 Benefits of BAT s mentoring scheme for mentors and mentees...

Evaluation of mentoring relationships revealed that mentees gained considerable benefits from their mentoring experiences. These included ... 

The evaluation survey used to identify the benefits associated with mentoring also revealed some room for improvement. The improvements have since been implemented, leading to an even better service of mentoring for trainees. In particular, the following aspects seemed to be in need of revision ... 

Review of the training provision for mentees and mentors to ensure that in future they benefit from the experience of those who have gone before. 

In other respects, the nature of these types of relationships, and therefore the mentor characteristics, can be quite variable. For example, mentoring relationships could follow a reverse mentoring model, in which the mentor is potentially (much) younger but certainly more junior than the mentee. Many senior mentees view reverse mentoring as a unique opportunity and are fully conscious of the fact that having a yoimger mentor is not a humiliation but a benefit. 

What are the benefits of professional development mentoring The main and most obvious benefit is the mentees acquisition of an important type of competency, intended to enhance business performance. Furthermore, although mentoring might not be the only developmental tool employed in this type of scheme, receiving one-to-one attention is likely to enable... 

We probabiy have data aii over the piece but it wouid be a reai task to make it into information Having said that, severai of us here have anecdotai evidence that mentoring, property done, is of enormous benefit, not ieast to the mentors themseives. i see it as a major contributor to continuing professionai deveiopment for the mentors, and extremeiy usefui to mentees/candidates. From 1979 untii iast year i have rareiy been without a mentee of some kind, and i didn t even reaiize it for most of that time. 

The main benefit of this type of scheme is that it is likely to create a less stressed and emotionally more balanced workforce. This in turn enhances a company s chances of retaining those newly returned to work. Furthermore, mentoring will also benefit the company by accelerating the time it would normally take for returners to perform their job competently once again. 

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