Benefits of getting a mentor
With many employees doing more than one job, and a lot of stress and busyness about at work, plus training budgets under pressure, getting a mentor can be useful in more ways than one. They help you to learn and develop and when you are job hunting or looking for a career change, they can also broaden your network.
This career guide shares 21 benefits of getting a mentor.
1. Helps you grow and develop
2. Costs nothing but time
3. Guides you; guardian, teacher and father/mother figure
4. Helps you reach your goals
5. Enables you through who or what they know
6. Promotes your welfare, training or career
7. Makes time for you
8. Listens to you
9. Provides a mixture of advice and helping you to come up with your own answers
10. Someone you can learn from and leap up the learning curve
11. Someone with time to give you time
12. Gives you first hand practical advice
13. Encourages your natural strengths and talents
14. Shares expertise with you
15. A wise loyal personal advisor
16. Provides constructive feedback
17. Someone to bounce ideas off confidentially
18. Helps you deal with politics at work
19. Stops/lessens the likelihood of you making mistakes from sharing their experiences
20. Introduce you to new contacts to build your network
21. Helps you grow and develop
