Leadership Essentials: Mentoring
Mentoring is a relational activity in a specific context where two people benefit from having conversations. Traditionally, mentoring was considered as the passing-on of the experience of an older colleague to a younger, less experienced, one. Recent Institute of Leadership research challenges this definition having identified that both parties may obtain significant benefit from the relationship.
‘Leadership Essentials: Mentoring’ provides an overview of why mentoring is essential for leadership capability and includes ‘Top Tips’ on how mentoring can help you become a better leader.
The Essentials leaflet is supported by three Spotlights that look at mentoring in more detail to help you improve your leadership skills:
- How to be a Good Mentor
- How to be a Good Mentee
- Workplace Mentoring
Spotlights
Spotlight on How to be a Good Mentor
"Off-line help by one person to another in making significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking"
Megginson and Clutterbuck (2004)
Spotlight on How to be a Good Mentee
"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves."
Steven Spielberg
American director, Producer, and Screenwriter
Spotlight on Workplace Mentoring
"Organizations that embrace mentoring are rewarded with higher levels of employee engagement, retention, and knowledge sharing. In fact, mentoring has proved so beneficial that 71% of Fortune 500 companies offer mentoring programs to their employees."
Mary Abbajay (2019)