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"Mentoring works best when it focuses on the entire person versus focusing on skill development alone." Source: Harvard Business Review
Most mentoring programs are designed for the benefit of mentees, and they encourage participants to come into a relationship with specific goals and expectations. The benefits of mentoring, however, often extend far beyond the relationship's initial purpose and affect everyone involved: mentees, mentors, and the organization.
Benefits for Mentees
- Access to a support system during critical stages of college and career development
- Insider perspective on navigating their chosen career
- Clear understanding and enhancement of academic and career development plans
- Ability to develop mentoring relationships in industries where mentoring is not readily available
- Enhanced understanding of the importance of mentors
- Exposure to diverse perspectives and experiences
- Direct access to power resources within the professions of audiology; speech-language pathology; and speech, language, and hearing science
- Identification of skill gaps before leaving school
- Greater knowledge of career success factors
- A lasting career network
Benefits for Mentors
- Exposure to the emerging talent pool
- Ongoing attention to mentor's own career development
- Satisfaction from imparting wisdom and experience to others in the profession without a huge time commitment
- Enhancement of coaching, mentoring, leadership, and management skills
- Chance to be exposed to a diversity of thought, style, personality, and culture
- A way to recruit employees for the mentor's industry/company
- Feedback loop to students and school regarding curriculum needs
- Greater knowledge of recruiting success factors
- A way to "give back" to their association
- A lasting career network
What is Mentoring? | Role of the Mentee and Mentor
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