“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” Research has shown that mentoring relationships can have a positive effect on improving the quality mentees bring to personal and professional situation. Ultimately, mentoring connects mentees to personal growth, development, social and economic opportunities. …show more content…
Mentoring provided a complementary relationship to training and coaching. Mentors aid by giving advice on dealing with frustration, giving constructive criticism, handling disappointment, behaving with humility and compassion. Mentoring ensures mentees with the security of feeling not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges. Research has shown that mentoring relationships can have a positive effect on improving the quality mentees bring to personal and professional situation. Ultimately, mentoring connects mentees to personal growth, development, social and economic opportunities. However, no demographic is more in dire need of mentoring as women and minorities. Women and minorities are seriously underrepresented in the workplace. Mentoring has been identified as one of the significant factors in addressing this underrepresentation. However, there are storages is the available resources for experienced and appropriate mentors. Peer mentoring can address this issue. Peer mentoring takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee). Peer mentoring offers several benefits for both mentor and mentee. Providing mentoring is a unique way of exerting a life-on-life influence on people so that they can be transformed. It is a Christian way of on passing on blessings and faith to others, by being a light, truth and unselfish. Mentoring allows mentors to appreciate the grace of God and provide blessings and a path to success to