THE ART OF MENTORING

The little bird ready to take its flight, its wings spread wide

With that part nervous-excite, but the direction is still to decide,

And then there is a slight positive push towards west-side

It then goes up like a kite, achieving great heights.

That’s what mentoring does; lift your spirits up when you need the most.  “Mentoring relates primarily to the identification and nurturing of potential for the whole person

But the million dollar question is how important is MENTORING in the corporate culture?

Mentoring is a tool that organizations are widely using to nurture and grow their employees. Through mentoring, organizations today are able to bring in dramatic improvements in productivity and efficiency. Mentoring not only works on organizations, but also its people by delivering knowledge and leadership skills from one managerial gen to another. So workplace mentoring is a dynamic process where mutual partnership of learning between employees is formed. It could fulfill the purposes of sharing technical information, institutional knowledge and insight with respect to a particular occupation, profession, or endeavor.

                             Why a Formal Employee Mentoring Program (EMP)?

Formal Employee Mentoring Programs (EMP’s) allow organizations to create and foster those relationships by pairing more experienced employees (mentors) with less experienced employees (mentees) to meet specific objectives while helping the mentees in the mentoring process to identify and develop their own skills and abilities.

• mentoring is an effective technique for the deliverance of profes­sional, technical and management skills
• mentoring aims at developing employees’ skills, abilities and potential, and can thus augment the diversity of the workforce
• mentoring is a win-win situation for all concerned — the organization, the mentees, mentors and other employees — by enhancing the skills, flexibility and morale and regenerating enthusiasm, and
•  in line with current trends in staff development, mentoring is conducted in-house and so can be customized as per the organizational needs

Benefits of EMP

Benefits for the Mentee	Benefits for the Mentor
Enhanced skills Increased self- confidence & self-esteem Increased motivation Improved job satisfaction Increased personal and social competencies; Increased productivity	Increased opportunities to share skills and knowledge Greater opportunities to develop leadership skills Improved job satisfaction Increased sense of value in the workplace Increased understanding of the challenges facing young people today.

A survey by Fortune 500 companies reporting 96% that mentoring is an important employee development tool and 75% said it is a key factor in their own personal success. So make your own success story today. Implement EMP!