Why would you need mentoring?
Fri, February 26, 2010 at 11:55 
Our last memo provoked many questions about mentoring and why we think it’s important for people and organisations. Look around: very often, you find mentoring for leadership, personal development or for speaking. What you don’t find is mentoring for managing your business processes. The result of this gap: lower performance and more frustration within organisations. Read more about our suggestion how to tackle this issue.
So, what to expect from a good mentoring? We think these three characteristics – published at the Harvard Business Review – are really important.
Good mentoring...
- … tells you things you may not want to hear but leaves you feeling you have been heard
- … interacts with you in a way that makes you want to become better
- … makes you feel secure enough to take risks and seize opportunities
What makes mentoring valuable for you? Post your comment below.
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Reader Comments (1)
For me there are two major positives in working with a mentor. Firstly there is that strange fact that two people looking at a problem together are much more than twice as smart as two people looking at the same problem separatley. Working with someone else just get you to a smarter answer.
Secondl it allows me to try and work out higher risk ideas in a safe environment and to float half complete thoughts without feeling the need to really justify all my rationalle.