Examining effective mentorship: Roles and skills for success

This essay explores the multifaceted roles of a mentor in guiding and supporting new employees within an organization. It highlights the importance of effective mentoring programs and emphasizes the various roles a mentor must fulfill, including being a teacher, sponsor, cheerleader, counselor, and friend. Each role requires specific skills and attitudes to help the mentoree overcome challenges, develop their potential, and achieve their professional goals. By understanding and embracing these roles, a mentor can significantly contribute to the mentoree's personal and professional growth, ultimately fostering a successful mentoring relationship.

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A mentor can become a personal advocate for a new employee or mentee not much in the
public setting but rather in the professional working life. Most of the organizations are seen to
recognize the power of effective mentoring. Therefore, organizations try to establish programs
for helping the younger professionals for identifying and gaining support from the more
experienced professionals in the format (Liaw et al. 2016).
The mentor needs to fulfill the role of effective teacher. This should be involving their
modeling behaviors and thereby provide the mentees with correct information and many others.
This would help the mentors to understand what the mentoree is seeking from the mentoring
relationship. Another important role of the mentor is that of a sponsor. This attitude of the
mentor would help the mentoree for opening door as well as referring mentoree to others and
promoting the talents of the mentoree (Burgees et al. 2017). Another important role of the
mentor is to become an enthusiastic cheerleader. This attribute of the mentor should involve
inspiring the mentoree for achieving the zenith of success, challenge the mentoree in their
assumptions to develop their motivation and potential to succeed and thereby encourage them in
their development. Another important role that mentors need to develop is the role of the
counselor. This attribute of the mentor needs to involve listening as well as probing for
discovering the key issues that affect the success of the mentoree and thereby clarify and advice
the mentoree in overcoming various internal barriers and move forward towards their goals and
aims. Another important role is the role of the friend (Clark and Casey 2016). Here, the mentor
needs to accept the mentoree as the person they are and engage with them in relationship that is
more personal. This would help in supporting the mentoree in their personal and professional
growth.

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By the above-mentioned skills and roles, a person can become a successful mentor and
pass on their knowledge to the new employees under them.

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References:
Burgess, A., van Diggele, C. and Mellis, C., 2018. Mentorship in the health professions: a
review. The clinical teacher, 15(3), pp.197-202.
Clark, L. and Casey, D., 2016. Support for mentors—an exploration of the issues. British
Journal of Nursing, 25(20), pp.1095-1100.
Liaw, S.T., Wade, V., Lau, P., Hasan, I. and Furler, J., 2016. Safe and effective cultural
mentorship in general practice. Australian family physician, 45(6), p.431.