BUSINESS MENTORING

  WHAT'S THE MENTORING?

  It is a personalized tool for professional development, in which recognized qualified professionals share knowledge, skills, experiences, learning and offer advice, information and guidance to a manager, supporting him to develop answers to their challenges and career situations. All within a strict framework of confidentiality, compliance and professional ethics.

 Mentoring means supporting and challenging managers to manage their own learning in order to maximize their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and progress in their professional career, motivating and empowering them to identify their objectives, and helping them find the ways to get them.

MENTORING OR COACHING?

 The terms ‘mentoring’ and ‘coaching’ are often incorrectly used to mean the same thing. They can coexist but are subtly different. the confusion accompanying the terms is not helped by the terms meaning slightly different things in the education world in comparison to the business world. The literature in this area is vast but one useful definition came from The General Teaching Council for Scotland, where you can also find a useful summary.

MAIN PILLARS 

1. CONFIDENTIALITY: What happens during the sessions is between the Mentor and the Director.

2. CONFIDENCE AND RESPECT: Absolute relationship of trust and mutual respect between the   Mentor and the Manager in all areas imaginable.

3. COMPLIANCE: Each party must fully comply with what was promised during the Mentoring process.

4. RECOGNITION AND ACCEPTANCE: of the roles and duties of the Mentor and the Director.

5.COMPROMISO: to make the maximum effort to achieve the objectives set.

6. COMPREHENSION: of the needs, desires and shortcomings of the Manager.

7. HONESTY AND TRANSPARENCY: throughout the Mentoring process.

8. MIND OPENING: to new ideas, opinions, perspectives and ways of perceiving.

9.LEARNING: from the experience and Mentoring process reducing the learning curve and through   learning by doing.

  + MENTORING ARTICLES:
  ⇒ Reverse mentoring and peer coaching as professional development strategies
   ⇒ Mentoring and Coaching
   ⇒ The mentoring as a tool to promote the development (Spanish article)

  + THE FUTURE OF MENTORING
   The following article explains how to implement electronic mentoring, the future of mentoring.

  + SUMMARY 
   The following video summarizes everything explained and teaches us how to find a good mentor.