Benefits of Business Mentoring
Individuals who have become successful mentors have said
the mentoring role provides:
- Incredible satisfaction in being able to contribute
to someone else's growth
- A wonderful opportunity to improve their own learning
As a mentor you will have an opportunity to reflect on
issues raised and perhaps address your own thinking and methods
to make improvements. It can also stimulate a renewed focus on your own
career development.
Some mentoring relationships benefit from the familiarity of shared
concerns; others benefit from differences in perspective.
For example, a mentee from a younger generation or different gender or racial
background can help you improve your knowledge and understanding of their
perspective.
Mentors can also see a number of benefits. For example:
- The opportunity for self-reflection about their own
career path
- Gain an increased understanding of your discipline,
and of business in general
- The opportunity to recruit colleagues and successors
- Mentoring gives you responsibility and develops your
supervisory and management skills
- The satisfaction from helping others and seeing them
progress
- Develop a deeper and broader knowledge of your own,
and other organisations
- The opportunity to practice and develop your management
and, in some cases, coaching skills
- Job enrichment and the chance to build wider networks
- Increased self-confidence and higher visibility
within your own company or community