MENTORING

Presented By:

Aquib Jawed

Arshad Ansari
 Introduction
A mentor is an individual with expertise
who can help develop the career of a
mentee. The mentor guides, trains, advises,
and promotes the career development of the
mentee.
Two types of mentoring functions:
Career
Psychosocial
 Mentoring Function
Career Functions: Help the mentee learn
the ropes and prepare for career
advancement.
Coaching
Challenging assignments
Exposure and visibility
Protection
 Psychosocial Functions: Help the mentee
develop a sense of competence and clarity
of identity.
Role-Modeling
Acceptance and confirmation
Counseling
Friendship
Stages of Mentoring
Initiation Stage
Cultivation Stage
Separation Stage
Redefinition Stage

Read in detail.
 Techniques of Mentoring

Accompanying

Sowing

Catalyzing

Showing

Harvesting
 Accompanying: making a commitment in a
caring way, which involves taking part in the
learning process side-by-side with the learner.

Sowing: mentors are often confronted with the

difficulty of preparing the learner before he or she
is ready to change. Sowing is necessary when you
know that what you say may not be understood
or even acceptable to learners at first but will
make sense and have value to the mentee when
the situation requires it.

Catalyzing: when change reaches a critical level

of pressure, learning can escalate. Here the
mentor chooses to plunge the learner right into
change, provoking a different way of thinking, a
 Showing: this is making something
understandable, or using your own example to
demonstrate a skill or activity. You show what you
are talking about, you show by your own
behavior.

Harvesting: here the mentor focuses on "picking

the ripe fruit": it is usually used to create
awareness of what was learned by experience
and to draw conclusions. The key questions here
are: "What have you learned?", "How useful is
it?".
 Advantages of
Mentoring
Advantages for the mentee:
Career advancement
Salary
Organizational/professional identification
Advantages for the mentor:
Career enhancement
Passing the torch to a new generation
Learning from mentee new technologies,
new developments, important features of
next generation
 Disadvantages of
Mentoring
Disadvantages for the mentee:
Overdependence on the mentor
Micro-management from the mentor
Disadvantages for the mentor:
Mentee dependence on mentor
Time, energy commitment to mentee
Problem With Cross-
Gender Mentoring
Most common form of business mentoring:
male mentor and male mentee.
Other forms:
Male mentor and female mentee (most
common)
Female mentor and male mentee
Female mentor and female mentee (rare)
 Advice for Same-Gender
and Cross-Gender Mentoring
Keep relationship professional
Be sensitive to other peoples reactions and
potential rumors
Avoid perception of personal relationship
Meet in public venues
Transparency of relationship
 The Learning Conversation

Reaffirmation
Identifying the issue
Building mutual understanding
Exploring alternative solutions
Final check
 Benefits of
Mentoring
For the mentee
Improved knowledge and skills
Greater confidence and well-being
Improved morale, motivation, and
relationships
For the mentor
Greater satisfaction
New knowledge and skills
Leadership development
Thankyou