Mentoring - CIPD
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1. Introduction – About mentoring 3
2. Mentoring programmes 3
3. Conclusions and recommendations 5
4. References 5
Introduction
"Mentoring is to support and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be." Eric Parsloe, the Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring.
Mentoring can have multiple purposes for our organisation as support the talent management process, enabling personal and professional development of individuals, support career planning and development process, offering knowledge transfer and guidance from more experienced colleague to a less experienced one. Mentoring can also offer a role model and provide contacts and access to different opportunities for the mentee.
A mentoring relationship is not restricted to one of these purposes but can refer to one or more of them, facilitating the exploration of needs, motivations and skills of individuals. The real benefit of the mentoring process is that mentors and mentees can work together using different models of mentoring that best suits their needs.
Mentoring programmes
Our company’ strategy is to maintain its position of leader on sports betting market in a very competitive environment. As we already know, one of our strategic objectives is to develop our people in order to meet the group strategy that is why I consider a mentoring programme can help us in order to transfer good practices and knowledge from our senior colleagues to junior ones especially to those who were just promoted on a superior position.
Recently, three of our collegues from the Bucharest Sales team were promoted to managerial positions and faced already different challenges in shops activity’ coordination, especially with the shop operators. For them, I
1. Introduction – About mentoring 3
2. Mentoring programmes 3
3. Conclusions and recommendations 5
4. References 5
Introduction
"Mentoring is to support and encourage people to manage their own learning in order that they may maximise their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they want to be." Eric Parsloe, the Oxford School of Coaching & Mentoring.
Mentoring can have multiple purposes for our organisation as support the talent management process, enabling personal and professional development of individuals, support career planning and development process, offering knowledge transfer and guidance from more experienced colleague to a less experienced one. Mentoring can also offer a role model and provide contacts and access to different opportunities for the mentee.
A mentoring relationship is not restricted to one of these purposes but can refer to one or more of them, facilitating the exploration of needs, motivations and skills of individuals. The real benefit of the mentoring process is that mentors and mentees can work together using different models of mentoring that best suits their needs.
Mentoring programmes
Our company’ strategy is to maintain its position of leader on sports betting market in a very competitive environment. As we already know, one of our strategic objectives is to develop our people in order to meet the group strategy that is why I consider a mentoring programme can help us in order to transfer good practices and knowledge from our senior colleagues to junior ones especially to those who were just promoted on a superior position.
Recently, three of our collegues from the Bucharest Sales team were promoted to managerial positions and faced already different challenges in shops activity’ coordination, especially with the shop operators. For them, I
References: 1. What is Mentoring? – Mentor SET, http://www.mentorset.org.uk/pages/mentoring.htm_br) 2. http://www.mentoring.org/downloads/mentoring_415.pdf 3. http://www.cipd.co.uk 4. Kathy Beevers and Andrew Rea, Learning and Development practice (2013), Chapter 9 Developing mentoring skills for the workplace. 5. Pompper, D.; Adams, J. (2006). "Under the microscope: Gender and mentor-protege relationships". Public Relations Review.