Mentors, Mentees and Relationships

There are many different ways to define mentoring; when we define mentoring as a learning alliance, the focus shifts to the relationship: how mentors and mentees work together and learn through working together. Both parties in the learning alliance are responsible for their own learning, and both are responsible for bringing all their knowledge and skills into the relationship in order to create … [Read more...] about 10 Tips for a Successful Mentoring Relationship

Mentoring has become very popular in organizational life. Formal mentoring programmes are established where leaders and employees with long history in the company will mentor newly hired leaders/employees, high potentials, and talents of many kinds. Top executive may have had the opportunity to be mentored during their careers, but after their arrival at the top leadership level, they will find … [Read more...] about Why it Can be Lonely at the Top Without a Mentor

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