Mentoring

 

    Mentoring    

                                                             Author Ayesha Irshad Malik

A person share with mentee information and knowledge his or her own path, as well as provide guidance motivation emotions supports, and role modeling is called mentoring.    A mentor is someone who will encourage and support a mentee to make successful in their career, and a mentor should be a good and active listener.        A mentor may be elder or younger than the person being mentored, but they must have a certain area of expertise. It is very useful because students can learn knowledge and skills from mentor, and mentoring provides them professional socialization and personal support to facilitate success in their lives. Mentoring is a learning relationship between mentors and their students that is generally focused on long term career development. Mentoring is aimed to drive personal growth, building skills, knowledge and understanding. Mentors may use their couching skills to improve their student’s abilities, but usually the mentor role is more important than couch.                   

Mentoring is a learning relationship between two persons, and it purposes of sharing technical information, knowledge, and skills. Mentoring is particularly appropriate for increasing employee skills and knowledge. It often used to support employee talent, using a mentor to help them embed learning. Mentoring can also be used to encourage their skills and ethical behavior within an institution.

Mentoring in education is very important as well, it involves pairing young people with an elder volunteer, who is a positive role model for them, and it aims to build their confidence, develop resilience, character and their skills or knowledge. Successful mentoring relationship go through four phases; preparation, negotiating, enabling growth and closure. These four phases build on each other and vary in length. In each phase mentor will teach the students the strategies that lead to mentoring excellence, and it helps to develop a pipeline of future leaders who understand the skills and attitudes that is required to succeed within organization. It helps employers to develop a culture of personal and professional growth.  It is a relationship between two people in which trust and respect enables problems, issues and difficulties to be discussed in an open and supportive environment. The mentor provide safe place for reflection; they listen and support, explore strengths and blind spot and generate their energy level and make them enable to focus on their career and goals.  Through the mentoring the mentee gets goals for purpose of development of their future, enhancing skills, gaining new knowledge. Mentoring is changing the culture of sink or swim attitude. A mentor should be effective listener because this is an art and skill to learn and teach.  Active and deep listening skills require the listener to understand them. The mentor should ask powerful questions from mentees, because this is an effective way to increase their knowledge and confidence.   A mentor should help others not only professionally but as a human being. A good mentor accepts their mentees as they are good or bad, intelligent or less intelligent. To be a mentee is a very good for you, it increases your social and academic confidence, and you can become more empowered to make your decision and it develop your communication, personal, study and professional skills. It can develop your will power, and you can deal with both personal and professional or academic issues. Mentoring develops your leadership and management qualities and it will gain your confidence and motivation. Teaching, mentoring and communication these are specific skills knowledge or techniques that mentor can develop through training and education. These qualities take a big role in mentoring and, mentorship is an important aspect of learning and experience.