9 Benefits Of Having A Mentor

Do you know how beneficial it is to have good mentors to better your career? We all need to have someone in our corner?

The bottom line is you need people in your corner who are more senior in position than you are, and who can provide you with support and guidance throughout your career. You could try to progress by yourself, but it will be a lot harder.

Here are 9 Benefits Of Having A Mentor:

Increased Knowledge

Mentors are valuable sources of knowledge. Keep in mind to choose mentors who will give you the best insight at your current career level. Because they have already been through it, they'll provide advice on issues such as how to develop your skills, help grow your staff in their roles, reduce stress, or become more efficient.

Constructive Feedback

Friends and family members may hesitate to provide the type of feedback you need to make a change in your professional life. Mentors offer constructive criticism designed to strengthen areas of your worklife that need improvement. Without this insight, career growth may take longer to achieve. Ask mentors to tell you how you can improve your strategy to better reach your goals.

Career Growth

Mentors look for ways to encourage your growth. Once they understand your skills and abilities, they may put you to work on a specific task to see how well you perform. Based on your performance, they might give you another challenge to test you or give you detailed feedback on what you did well and what you may improve upon.

Words Of Encouragement

When you need an extra boost of confidence, mentors offer support and words of encouragement to keep you going when work gets tough. Without a mentor, negative thoughts may become more prominent in your worklife, especially when dealing with a difficult subject or issue. Positive encouragement helps motivate you to keep trying your best, despite the challenges.

Mentor Relationships

Successful mentor relationships define expectations, make you feel you are in safe hands and that conversations are confidential. For example, mentors help set priorities, define successful habits and behaviours and provide guidance regarding balanced work-life scheduling. Mentors help bring awareness to any issues that may be affecting your emotional well-being and provide solutions to overcome any negatives.

Unbiased Opinions

Because mentors play a neutral role in your life, they have the ability to give unbiased opinions on subjects you care about. For example, if you have several ideas but need help choosing the best option, mentors are great resources for advice. Drawing on their past experiences, mentors provide opinions that they believe fit your circumstance best.

Goal-Setting

If you need help setting and achieving goals, mentors are the perfect allies to keep you accountable. Your mentor can help develop your career by assisting with setting new stretch goals for you and providing clarity on how to take action. When you first begin, write down a list of goals that make you feel uncomfortable in a positive way. You need to be award that this discomfort comes from a fear of change. Once you achieve your goals, notice how this fear transitions into excitement.

New Perspective

Working with a mentor is life-changing because it helps you understand who you are and what you want to become. While mentors are not therapists, they help promote feelings of awareness and discovery that only come through conscious effort. Once you've experienced life with a mentor, you may want to share your experiences with others too, which helps you become a better leader yourself and provides you with a new perspective.

Networking Connections

Mentors commonly offer to share their network connections with their mentees. When you enlist the help of a mentor, you may increase your chances for new professional contacts, which could possibly lead you to new opportunities.

The purpose of having mentors is to have someone more senior than you with a fresh eye to give you support and advice based on their experience. With the right guidance, mindset and determination you will be amazed at what you can achieve.

If you have been toying with the idea that coaching sessions may be beneficial to helping you achieve more of your career goals, you are welcome to book a 20 minute complimentary chat - simply message me on LinkedIn. Like everything in life, having someone to lean on makes things much easier.

Take good care of your workself

Cheryl