At KMP+ House of Mentoring we define mentoring as a mutual learning process, where both mentor and mentee learn through their conversations. A successfully learning partnership demands the right match between mentor and mentee and here comes the important of matching the right mentors and mentees. Because how will you define a right match? "A right match is a match where both mentor and mentee … [Read more...] about 5 tips to match mentors and mentees

Mentoring programmes are implemented to improve learning on the job, to support the development of female executives, to integrate ethnic groups, to support newly appointed leaders, to develop project managers, to introduce new employees to the job and the company culture, etc. However, in most programmes the focus is on developing the mentee! Sure, that is the original meaning of the word: that a … [Read more...] about Why and how mentors also learn from a mentoring relationship

The concept of careers has changed with the changing focus in the work place. The meaning of career has changed from being an objective, externally defined concept to a subjective, internally defined concept. In the knowledge-based economy we are now talking about intelligent careers and boundaryless careers. Technology and knowledge are changing so fast that there can be no guarantee of a … [Read more...] about Are you taking ownership of your career? Benefits of having a mentor through career transitions