Recently I have watched the movie Chak de India(not that interested in movies so mostly I watch the movies much later). It was a wonderful movie to watch. Everything in that can be corelated to life. I liked the way it was shown on how a perfect team can be made and also how important the mentor is to the team. Mentorship was one of the important things that we can observe and learn, apart from patriotism, unity in diversity, etc.,
We all form teams in our worklife for various tasks that we do. The team is usually made up of people with different backgrounds, different workstyles, etc., it is now the role of the mentor - may be an external person of the team or team lead in most cases to show the path to the team, get the teamwork and team going inspite of all the hurdles, problems (internal or external) to achieve the task for which the team was formed.
What is mentorship?
Mentorship refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a mentee or protégé -- a person guided and protected by a more prominent person.
It again depends on the number of members in the team. Mentoring can be one-to-one, one-many(team), etc.,
We all form teams in our worklife for various tasks that we do. The team is usually made up of people with different backgrounds, different workstyles, etc., it is now the role of the mentor - may be an external person of the team or team lead in most cases to show the path to the team, get the teamwork and team going inspite of all the hurdles, problems (internal or external) to achieve the task for which the team was formed.
What is mentorship?
Mentorship refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced mentor and a less experienced partner referred to as a mentee or protégé -- a person guided and protected by a more prominent person.
It again depends on the number of members in the team. Mentoring can be one-to-one, one-many(team), etc.,
One of the most important things in a mentor is to enable others grow, that is it also requires that the mentor be sincerely interested in someone else’s growth. Mentor may not win any awards, but he/she will have the satisfaction of having done an important job.
Following are some of the types
Team mentoring offers a methodology for facilitating the learning of an intact team.
Facilitated group mentoring allows a number of people to participate in a learning group and to benefit simultaneously from the experience and expertise of a mentor or mentors.
Peer-group mentoring brings together peers with similar learning interests or needs. The group is self-directed and self-managed. Source
Following are some of the types
Team mentoring offers a methodology for facilitating the learning of an intact team.
Facilitated group mentoring allows a number of people to participate in a learning group and to benefit simultaneously from the experience and expertise of a mentor or mentors.
Peer-group mentoring brings together peers with similar learning interests or needs. The group is self-directed and self-managed. Source
How can mentoring be useful in work life
Even in our worklife, it is important for a mentor to train the team, to show them the direction and to orient them in performing better. The experienced members may become informal mentors and share their experiences, approaches to the babies in the team to enable them to know that approach to perform better. There can be various hurdles one might face during mentoring the team especially when one has to mould the team to go in one direction. There will be all kinds of members in the team having different experiences that may be related to that work we are performing or may not be related. For example in a software testing team working on one particular project may consisting of three or four members. Here each one may have different experiences on various projects or various amounts of experiences, etc.,
It is the challenge of the mentor to overcome these hurdles, to let the team/mentee understand the hurdles, know when to take what decision, utilize all the resources, set a feeling of oness in the team so that the task can be easily accomplished, improve the confidence of the team, eliminate the differences that may exists among the various members, improve the morale of the team, etc., and get things going on track.
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