Mentorship is a trusted partnership between two people sharing their knowledge and experiences with each other to gain new insight, perspective and skills. A mentor nurtures the personal and professional growth of their mentee and in return, receives a sense of pride, knowing that one’s ideas are valued. Both parties give and receive objective and constructive feedback, honing their current abilities and gaining fresh ideas. In an organization, mentoring enables a transfer of important knowledge and creates a network/ community of people seeking to help one succeed. By example mentorship encourages more people to participate in community.
Benefits of mentoring are:
Mentee
- Creates a network of people with different experience and education.
- Reinforces and supports life goals and productivity.
- Receives objective and constructive feedback.
- Gains access to powerful resources, e.g. contacts, career opportunities, education and support.
- Receives invaluable insight and perspective beyond one’s own education and experience.
Mentor
- Gains exposure to new and diverse thoughts, styles, personalities and cultures.
- Provides one with a chance to give back to your community.
- Gains sense of pride passing skills onto the next generation.
- Reinforces ones own identity.
- Establishes trusted relationships.
- Gains satisfaction, seeing somebody one has helped, succeed.
Community and Organization
- Transfers important knowledge.
- Promotes diversity in the organization by reaching out to all social classes.
- Creates community based relationships and enhances public awareness.
- Helps to eliminate stereotypical roles by exposing women to diverse opportunities.
If you would like to volunteer to be a mentor, please fill out our mentor volunteer form.