Role of Mentorship in Grooming of Professionals

If you cannot sleep peacefully at night wondering, you haven’t utilized your full potential today then that means you need a professional guidance towards achieving greatness. Individuals who want to become successful leaders and positively impact lives of many, they need the right guidance for it.

Leaders who motivate and inspire need genuine mentorship focusing not only on the professional development, but personal development, as well.

Why is mentorship not considered an essential part of learning?

Many companies tend to focus on results rather than improving the individuals’ personally and professionally. They tend to only spare mentorship facility for the employees who they want to promote and see in the upper managerial positions. This might sound as a partial practice but it is meticulously seen in the business world. Hardly 25% people are provided with mentors to guide them professionally and personally.

Another problem observed is that mentors who call themselves as mentors, they often lack focus on personal development. Their primary focus is grooming and training a person to multiply sales for the company, which is often very constricted. The emphasis to capitalize on output and at the end of the day it is the rise in the revenue that matters the most to many companies.

Areas that an authentic mentor should focus 

A legitimate mentor, who is not only looking to multiply sales, will focus on mentoring the individual as a whole person, involve discussions about preferences and choices in life, certain behavior patterns, values and morals, parenting, relationships, managing current and future finances and even spiritual life. This kind of mentoring directly elevates the person’s growth and their leadership skills outshine. This kind of mentorship allows individuals to create very valuable and long-term relationships with many professionals in the business world. These are some of the reasons that makes mentoring completely different from coaching. This however, takes a lot of emotional and moral investment and time. That’s why it is the most effective among the rest. Professionals are able to achieve their maximum potential after receiving such type of mentoring.

Important points to discuss with your mentors

There are certain things that one should keep in their mind while receiving mentoring sessions.

• Trusting your mentor with your life experiences, tragedies and all sorts of events shouldn’t be kept confidential. Everything should be transparent between the mentor and mentee. This is how your mentor will understand your journey and would guide better. There should be no hesitation between the mentor and mentee and if there is any, talk about it immediately.
• Convert your curiosity into effective questions for your mentor. This will show your eagerness and involvement in the journey of learning. Share about the influential people in your life, how you can achieve mental peace at night, how to satisfy the thirst of exploration and how to deal with burn out at work. Share the type of relationship you have with different people and ask ways to improve it.
• Start with keeping your goal in your mind. And keep yourself occasionally reminded of the motive that has brought you two together. The direction should always be clear.
• Convert your confusions into questions and discover where the problem lies after the valuable guidance from your mentor. Don’t be reluctant to share details with your mentor.
• Be honest in all your personality and aptitude tests so that your mentor knows the best about you and be flexible in attitude. Find your unique self and try to explore that side of yourself under your mentor’s guidance.
• Be a good learner. Because at the end of the day, a mentor won’t be able to do any good if the mentee is not willing to learn, or accept and incorporate change.