Mentoring Services

What's Mentoring?

Mentoring is a relationship in which one person - usually someone more experienced, helps another to discover more about themselves, their potential and their capability. It can be an informal relationship, where an individual leans on someone else for guidance, support and feedback, or a more formal arrangement between two people who respect and trust each other. Mutual respect and trust is the essence of a successful mentoring process.

Mentoring is not the bringing together of a trainer and a trainee, nor a line management arrangement where seniority and rank come into play. Instead the mentor's role is to listen, ask questions, probe for facts and career choices, and to act as a source of information, experience, contacts and opportunities from other sources from which the learner can benefit.

The mentor should not give instructions; rather the mentor’s input helps the learner form their own views, develop different perspectives and develop as a person and as a professional. The mentee should not expect to be told what to do in detail as an order to be done without question and thought.