Mentoring and Its Major Benefits

Mentoring is a relationship developed between a senior and junior employee with in the same organization. Mentoring can be formal or informal relationship between the two employees. Mentoring also provides information about how the organization goes to achieve its vision and mission to the junior employee. Mentoring is an important strategy in professional development in both the public and private sector. Generally new employees have mentors and the senior employee is assigned as a mentor to assist the new employee to get settled in his role. In mentoring the mentor knows the problems, weaknesses and the areas of improvements in the mentee's performance.

Benefits of Mentoring:

• Mentoring helps the new employees to develop management skills and learn how to work with people with diverse background, culture, and language and personality types.
• Employees who participate in mentoring will have higher job satisfaction which ultimately leads to increased productivity and reduced employee turnover.
• Employees who are mentored stay on the job for longer time periods and mentoring also focus on attitude development in the employees.
• Mentoring programs provide an effective way to provide a career growth path to the employees and it is an effective way of grooming employees to fill key roles as part of organization's succession plan.
• Mentoring gives both mentors and mentees the opportunity to be better and more productive than either could be individually.
• Mentoring decreases the frustration in the employees as the mentor assists and shows them a way how to perform a particular job.
• An effective mentoring program allows and encourages the key employees to share their knowledge and skills with other employees.

Mentoring is very much useful for the development of an employee, hence this should be often followed in an organization.