The benefits of an effective and productive mentoring relationship can:
• Help new employees learn the culture and inner workings faster.
• Help newly promoted staff understand and fulfill their new responsibilities faster.
• Increase communication and strengthen employee bonds.
• Ensure that accumulated knowledge and experience is shared and passed on, reducing the impact when employees leave.
• Promote underrepresented employees
• Develop future leaders
• Project a strong and positive employer brand
However, mentoring relationships can be a disaster when:
• Mentor and Mentee are not a good match.
• Unrealistic expectations on the part of either parties.
• Trust and rapport never established.
• Lack of skills, time, or commitment on one of the parties.
• Protégé’s supervisor sabotages the relationship.
• Resentment on the part of other employees.
Mentoring can be a very successful method of tacit knowledge transfer. However, the success of a mentoring relationship is highly dependent on the ability of the Mentor and Mentee to connect and build report, which requires a level of trust and respect as well as very good interpersonal skills.
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Thanks Dr. Debby McNichols,
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Keep up the good work!