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WHY MENTORING ?
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Today with more technology, more aids and more focus on individualized attention
to personality development of each child, schools are facing a gamut of challenges.
With these new demands schools are in the process of evolution, trying to keep the
old values and traditions intact and at the same time trying to integrate the modern.
Any school today is in the process of continuous growth and revamping and so it
has to prepare to face changes. Lot of systems are evolving and in years to come
still new work methods will be put to experiment and more interventions for achieving
excellence will be initiated. In such a phase its important to have a system for
employee development, that can provide learning opportunities to employees on one
hand and on the other hand keep the employees aligned with the vision and mission
of the organization. Mentors will provide a networking to support employee development,
build communication network and will be instrumental in providing valuable feedbacks
at each level of operation in the school for strategic academic and co-curricular
planning. Mentoring also becomes a tool for providing intrinsic motivation and sets
in a culture for encouragement and appreciation.
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ROLE EMPOWERMENT
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The mentor serves as an effective tutor, counselor, and friend who enables the mentee to sharpen skills and hone her or his thinking.
• Share knowledge, experience, skills.
• Help the mentee establish networks
• Provide insight into the department’s culture
• Help the mentee set goals and meet challenges
Effective mentors stick
with helping, not interfering. They share, they model, they teach, they do not take
over someone else`s problems unless there is a crisis that requires immediate action.
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MENTORS RESPONSIBILITIES
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1. Providing appropriate information
- Information that is factual and neutral to empower a mentee.
- Occasionally provide information that a mentee can use to guide his action and decision
making process.
2. Assigning responsibility - To assign means
to trust a person to be able to do a job, however he should be empowered to make
key decisions. 3. Identifying feelings - The capacity to detect the emotions and
feelings of others and to respond appropriately is a critical art of mentoring. 4.
Encouraging exploration of options - Help mentee`s consider possibilities beyond
the obvious or tried and true. 5. Brainstorm together.
6. Productive confrontation.
7. Discuss negative intentions or behaviors without being judgmental.
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