Mentoring Guidelines: What is Mentoring?
Mentoring is used to describe a range of personal support strategies, in which there is ‘learning by association with a relevant role model’. It can be an extremely valuable tool for facilitating change and development in individuals and their profession.
The essential feature is ‘a focus on a one to one relationship between mentor and learner which ensures individual attention and support for the learner’. A mentor can provide this support in many different roles:
- facilitator
- counsellor
- role model
- friend/buddy
- challenger
- advisor
- coach
- guide
- co-ordinator
- opener of doors
Updated: 05 February 2006