
Mentoring and career building
A successful career requires much more than technical and professional skills. Excelling at your job is not enough to climb the ladder. Effective communication, professional relationships, networking and career vision are just as essential.
This is where mentoring can make all the difference, especially at the start of a career.
The mentor can help the mentee acquire new skills, navigate the company's internal politics, challenge his or her ideas and foster professional development. Most executives who reach a high level of management cite mentoring as an important factor in their professional success.
Here are six key benefits of mentoring for professional development:
✔️ Improving communication :
The mentor can act as a role model for the desired behaviors, which often include communication skills. The interaction between mentor and mentee gives the latter the opportunity to observe the mentor and adopt certain effective behaviors. The mentor can also provide feedback on the mentee's communication style and effectiveness.
✔️ Develop your professional network :
Mentors generally benefit from greater work and leadership experience, which often translates into a wider and deeper network from which they can benefit their mentee by introducing them to people in their network to whom the mentee would not have access on their own.
✔️ Overcoming obstacles :
By talking to their mentors, mentees can work on career issues, whether immediate, operational or long-term. Mentees can benefit from mentors' experience, rather than learning "the hard way" through trial and error.
✔️ Identify development objectives :
At the start of a career, people can often lack self-awareness and a good understanding of their professional strengths and weaknesses. The mentor helps to identify the skills that are essential for the mentee's potential future roles. The mentor can help uncover these professional blind spots, enabling the mentee to focus his or her development efforts.
✔️ Developing and refining your leadership philosophy :
As we grow in our careers, we need to determine what kind of leader we want to be, and be prepared to face tough ethical choices. Often, this is done through numerous situations, large and small, that test our limits and put our values to the test. The mentor can act as a sounding board to help the mentee overcome ethical dilemmas and other difficult situations. A good mentor is an excellent listener. While not imposing his own values, he can make suggestions, help his mentee reflect on his choices and ask questions that will help him question his way of thinking.
Finally, mentors help their mentees develop a broader perspective. By sharing their point of view, they can help mentees broaden their own perspective and understand the viewpoints of different sectors or stakeholders. In addition, mentors can draw on their experience to help their mentees reflect on the impact of their potential actions.
If you'd like to find out more, contact us at mentoring@ponts.org or visit our https://www.ponts.org/fr/les page .

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