Definition of Mentoring
Mentoring as a transformational activity involving a mutual commitment by mentor and mentee to the long-term development, as a personal, extra organizational investment… accomplished by the sharing of values, knowledge, experience, and so forth.
Scandura & Schriesheim, 1994, p. 1589
- Positive Developmental Activity Transformative activity
- Insights, challenges and opportunities, direction towards development
- Improving Organizational Communities
- Mutual Commitment
- Helping the mentee plan ways by skillful questioning and different perspectives
- Enhancing Organizational Culture
- Understanding and trust
- Constructive criticism Different doesn't mean incorrect nor inferior
- A Partnership
- Self-reliance
- Confidential and off-line
- Complement one another
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