BENEFITS FOR MENTORS

• Develop Mentoring/coaching skills
• Gain a sense of fulfillment and growth
• Develop leadership and management skills
• Gain new perspectives
• Practice accepting feedback
• Skill & competency development
• Potential for Networking
• Boost confidence and communication skills
• Strengthen active listening skills

BENEFITS FOR MENTEES

• Enhance skill/competency development
• Identify and establish career goals
• Gain practical advice
• Increase self-awareness and motivation
• Identify gaps in skills and knowledge
• Intellectual stimulation and direction
• Support during career transitions
• Develop Networking Skills
• Improve social and academic confidence
• Improve interpersonal and decision-making skills

BECOMING A MENTOR

Why should you consider becoming a mentor?

• Are interested in improving supervisory or coaching experience
• Have project management experience
• Have effective interpersonal communication skills
• Are interested in improving your skills to develop or influence others
• Have worked with multidisciplinary teams
• Have ever gone through a career transition or taken on a new job

BECOMING A MENTEE

Why should you consider becoming a mentor?

• Going through a career transition or starting a new job
• Are struggling with work-life balance
• Need help to achieve professional development goals or develop SMART goals
• Need help to develop your cross-functional team skills
• Want to develop leadership and management skills
• Improve work relationships or adjust to a new work culture
• Want to learn how to build effective teams

MENTORS ARE EXPECTED TO:

• Commit the necessary time and effort
• Create a positive relationship with open communication
• Be an active listener
• Provide advice to mentee’s career plans and aspirations
• Be open to learning from the mentee
• Establish trust and rapport
• Be willing to share knowledge experience and perspectives
• Maintain regular communication
• Provide open and candid feedback and coaching
• Stimulate thoughts, discussion, and insights while mentoring
• Respect your mentee’s time as much as your own

MENTEES ARE EXPECTED TO:

• Take the initiative to drive the relationship
• Dedicate time and energy to the relationship
• Identify competencies you would like to develop
• Be an active learner
• Seek and be open to feedback from mentors
• Maintain confidentiality and frequent communication
• Be open to learning and actively consider advice from mentors
• Follow through on commitments
• Respect mentor’s time and prepare in advance
• Assume the mentoring relationship to be strictly professional