What is professional mentoring?____

  • Professional mentoring is the process of developing and maintaining a trusting partnership between the mentee and mentor, such that the mentee can self-develop over the medium to long term.

  • The focus of conversations is on the whole of the mentee’s situation – personal and professional – to develop the mentee as a holistic individual within the framework of their career.

  • The mentee develops a range of career-oriented goals and timeframe for achievement.

  • The mentor/mentee partnership works through a range of strategies, interspersed with the mentor’s own life experiences and knowledge, to develop goal realisation actions, and manage to them.

  • At certain times, the mentor may adopt workplace performance coaching strategies. At other times, the mentor may act as a direct trainer or assessor, to ensure the mentee’s development is progressed.

  • At all times, the mentee has the responsibility for continuing the relationship, and for setting/varying the goals to be achieved.