Being a Mentor & Having a Mentor

Being a Mentor & Having a Mentor

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Have you ever being a mentor of someone, if yes you will surely know how it feels to be one. Mentor can help one in his/her professional career; the value of his contribution is immeasurable. By sharing their insights & knowledge they help us overcome our weakness & polish our skills. Mentoring is a tough job, being rational logical without bias attitude is what needed here. Hence some of the following guidelines can help you in being a good mentor.

Believe in what they say; have faith on the truth about them. What you believe about others changes the way you treat them. If you develop trust & confidence in them; it will be easier for them to believe in you.

Speak the truth and don’t provide false riches to anyone; this is a sign of poor mentorship. Provide good input to them so that even they believe in the truth about whom they are and what they want to be. Believing in the truth takes time, the scenario of one quickly believing in the truth said by person in front of you. Hence renewing your mind, from believing the truth and sidelining the lies is the way.

The importance of mentoring is known by all right from our birth it is our parents who be our mentors and guide us in our life path, they can be our teachers, friends and our close ones. They get the value of your expertise, knowledge, and experience. The very possible reasons why mentoring will benefit you are as follows:

Developing close relations

Although mentoring develops close relations, one cannot develop that close relations with anyone. Anyways but there exists a relation wherein you provide personal feedback too along with the professional one thus helping solving problems of life personal as well as professional.

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A saying “A man is known by the company he keeps” & “birds of a feather flock together”; taking the combo meaning of both it makes it clear that your behavior gets the shape of the person with whom you spend a lot of time. Your attitude your behavior becomes similar to the group you get involved in. Hence being in a good company will help you make yourself develop better and be a better individual.

Commitment Levels

When you become the mentor you indirectly start contributing more & more to the organization. You’ll be enthusiastic & this energy will get spread in the org thus enabling others to contribute in the same.

Impact on the Org

Your personal commitment will grow and you will also help others to be successful. The satisfaction that you will receive from the things you do to make your organization grow will enhance your strong feeling towards the firm.

Skills development

Mentoring will automatically help you in developing self skills, because it is for sure that when you mentor someone you will try and develop & make yourself better and make self perfect.

Confidence

The culmination of many of these other benefits is that your confidence will increase. You'll be more confident in many sorts of interpersonal relationships and conversations.

Leaving a legacy

The best also create a linage of coaches that leave their staff to become head coaches as well.

 
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