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Mentoring is a powerful tool for personal and professional growth. It involves a supportive learning relationship where an experienced individual provides guidance, knowledge, and support to a less experienced person. Here are some key points to keep in mind: - Fuel-efficient mentoring is an effective way to mentor without burning out. Setting boundaries, budgeting time, and using virtual meetings are some of the ways to achieve this. - Mentoring involves several stages, from establishing the relationship to achieving the mentee's goals. Each stage is important and requires careful attention. - Mentoring can help with career development, skill enhancement, and expanding professional networks. It's a win-win for both the mentor and the mentee. - There are various types of mentoring, including traditional one-on-one mentoring, group mentoring, and peer mentoring. It's important to consider what type of mentoring relationship will best suit your needs and establish a productive and mutually beneficial connection. If you're looking to become a mentor or find one, take the time to consider your needs and goals. With the right mindset and approach, mentoring can be a valuable experience for everyone involved. #mentoring #professionaldevelopment #careeradvancement

How Should You Structure Your Mentor Program There are multiple ways to structure a mentoring program. The right structure depends on your company culture and on the goals you want to achieve.

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My goal is to help you make excellence in your mentoring relationship a personal priority and be more reflective about your own role as a mentor. I invite you to delve more deeply into understanding your role in a mentoring relationship and how you can more effectively facilitate the learning of your mentee. Before you embark on your journey through the mentoring process, I want to share these thoughts about the nature of mentoring work: • Mentoring can be a powerful growth experience for both mentor and mentee. Mentors will learn new things about their mentee, themselves, and their organizations. • Mentoring is a process of engagement. No one can mentor without connection. In fact, mentoring is most successful when it is done collaboratively. Commitment by and engagement of mentoring partners is a key element in establishing, maintaining, and experiencing successful mentoring relationships. • Facilitating successful mentoring is a reflective practice that takes preparation and dedication. It begins with self-learning. Taking the time to prepare for the relationship adds value to it. • Mentoring with staying power focuses on the learners, the learning process, and the learning. • When mentoring is consciously and conscientiously grounded in principles of learning, the likelihood that the mentoring relationship will become a satisfactory learning relationship for both partners dramatically improves. Mentoring can be a joy, and it is always a privilege. Make it a priority, learn as much as you can, commit time and attention to each of your mentoring relationships, and continue to learn and grow as a mentor. #Mentorship #MentoringWorks #MentoringMatters

Mentoring is evolving, and it's time for us to rethink how we engage with our mentees. The traditional "one-size-fits-all" model no longer works. In my latest article for Psychology Today, I explore the importance of personalising mentoring to meet the unique needs of each individual. Whether it's adapting to different learning styles or supporting neurodivergent professionals, tailored approaches create meaningful growth for both mentor and mentee. 🔗 Read more below #Mentoring #LeadershipDevelopment #PersonalGrowth #WorkplaceCulture #InclusiveLeadership National Mentoring Day Association of Business Mentors (ABM)

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Effective mentorship provides the ability to accelerate learning and skill development. I have mentored others, and previously had the great benefit of being mentored. In recent weeks, the topic keeps coming up in discussions with my mentee. It’s the best form of amplifying and encouraging growth. When managers speak of ‘bench strength’ I don’t think they consider it without acknowledging how team talent is fostered and shared; so, if we want to solve issues with the ‘talent pipeline’ and job application processes, we need to do better with our approach. Find a mentor. Be a mentor.

Yesterday (27 October) was National Mentoring Day. As someone that has benefitted from mentoring, both formally and informally, and both as a mentee and a mentor, I want to use this opportunity to share some of my thoughts on mentoring. 📝 There is no one way to do mentoring - find out what works for you. I have been part of many different types of mentoring already in my career. From taking part in formal programmes with Cambridge University Engineers' Association (CUEA), to talking to friends with a different point of view that I value, each brings their own benefits and learning when and how to use each has been a bit of trial and error. 🌱 You do not need to be 'senior' to have valuable advice to offer Like many, I initially thought that mentors have lots of experience and mentees have significantly less. However, after doing a few talks while still a student and finding that people wanted my advice because I had tackled a problem that they were about to face for the first time, I realised quickly that you can provide value to others just by sharing any experience you have that is relevant to the question/challenge at hand - this can be useful to people with more or less overall 'experience' than you and can bring a different way of thinking about things. 🤝 You can have a bigger impact than you might think Mentoring is not just about helping other people achieve individual success. There are mentoring programmes all over the place with wider goals than individual ladder-climbing. A great example is the The Social Mobility Foundation that I volunteer with as a mentor. This programme provides mentors and personal statement checking in several professions, including engineering, for ambitious young people who face structural barriers in education and work because of their socioeconomic background. Perhaps 2025 is the year you offer up your skills in a mentoring programme, or seek to add some structure to your relationship with a trusted advisor? I'd like to take this opportunity to also thank my current CUEA mentor, Michael Dann, and thank those that have provided informal sage advice in response to some of my more existential questions over the years (in particular Ed Broadhead, Aleksi Tukiainen, Bengt Cousins-Jenvey, Steven Adams CEng FIMechE and Catherine Tilley - among many others!) #NationalMentoringDay #mentoring