Mentoring has benefits, these benefits are summarised below:
Knowledge and skills benefit
- Faster learning
- Widens experience
- Developing new knowledge and skills
- Supporting innovation
Managing change
- Support for culture change
- Support for reorganisation and restructuring
- Support for people in new roles and new jobs
- Helps develop a positive attitude to change
Motivation
- Improved job satisfaction and motivation
- Improved commitment to employing organisation
- Improved career progression
- Potential rejuvenation of longer serving staff
Performance
- Enhanced achievement of targets
- Increased productivity
- Reduced complaints
Policy implementation
- Improved staff retention
- Improved implementation of diversity policy
- Better management of “talent”
- Aids development of empowerment policies
Succession planning
- Leadership skills
- Improved succession planning, confidence and well being in change situations
Mentoring can also promote cultural diversity and can be used as a positive tool to enhance quality.
If this strikes a chord I would be delighted to talk with you, contact me by email or visit our website.
I am passionate about helping others manage their business (people, processes and profit) to the maximum effect.
I focus on operational improvement and mentor business owners/managers to ensure they have a successful business.