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1. Introduction
2. The meaning of business mentoring
3. Mentoring at all organization-levels.
4. Past experience and perspectives of mentoring
5. Conclusion
1. Introduction
To begin the analysis of what mentoring really is it is necessary
to start with the word “mentoring” itself. This
word has the origin from a Greek name. Mentor, was Odyssey’s
friend who took care and defend the house while Odyssey was
away. In other interpretations the word sometimes means “a
satellite”, which also reveals the definition of the
process of mentoring. Ordinarily, “mentoring”
is understood as a process of interaction between a young
and an older person, when the older person supports, guides
and assists the young one and acts as the primary critic.
Mentoring, in the meanwhile, includes help to the employee
in the realization of his career through the completion of
the given tasks. Mentoring also provides psychological and
social oriented assistance. A person who carries out mentoring
or simply “a mentor” is always a leader, a teacher,
and an unrelenting “proctor”. The word a “mentor”
has something supercilious, categorical and instructive in
its so-called "mentoring tone". The main principle
it realizes is “You have to do it this way”. A
mentor is an authoritarian type of a wise adviser that will
not “tolerate any objections". His advice is "obligatory
for performing". To make a long story short is a business
manager in the full definition of this word. Mentoring is
the process of sharing the experience with the employees in
order to make their work better and deduce the quality of
the work on a higher level. In order to understand the essence
of “mentoring”, it is necessary to see its difference
from other forms of management.
2. The meaning of business mentoring
The best way to analyze mentoring is to compare it to another
business term. Such business methods as “mentoring”
and “coaching” are very popular nowadays. Both
of these terms are identical, but the principle difference
lies in the fact that “coaching” concentrates
on revealing the possibilities, it is leading the employee
basing on support. So, coaching is a partner or liberal type
of interaction and mentoring is an authoritarian type of interaction.
Mentoring can be carried out both with individuals and groups.
If we mentoring as interactions in happening pairs it may
be portrayed as the next schemes: teacher - pupil, leader
- subordinate, consultant – client. Mentoring is support
in the first place and coaching is revealing the possibilities
and the potential of the employees. Mentoring directs the
employee into the right direction for the organization.
Creativity
3. Mentoring at all organization-levels.
Mentoring should not be provided to the executives only. In
our opinion it should be carried out in all the levels of
an organization. Of course the ordinary scheme is providing
mentoring to linear workers, specialists and providing coaching
for the upper management of organizations. This secures an
exact execution of the instructions from the “top management”
and gives the executives of an organization the possibility
to be more creative and reveal new abilities. In other words,
the "young" and inexperienced workers require mainly
mentors, and coaching works with "champion leaders"
- specialists of high level and top leaders.
4. Past experience and perspectives of mentoring
Describe your own experiences with mentoring. Determine how
implementing a
mentoring program at your organization (or a company you are
familiar with)
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