Mentoring- A critical path to leadership
Striving for a leadership role, but doing it alone? This might not be the smartest move. Embarking on a leadership journey requires support, guidance and hand-holding to a certain extent. Invariably the most promising tool to achieve all you desire resides in the power of mentoring. In fact, over 71% of Fortune 500 companies invest in formal mentoring to accelerate their employees’ professional growth for 3 primary reasons-
Navigate challenges
A mentoring relationship can help you navigate challenges that come across your personal and professional life. You may not find all the answers, but mentoring will unleash avenues to tackle those challenges with confidence.
Constructive Criticism
Having a mentor is like having a critic on your side pushing you to better yourself and step out of your comfort zone. Their constant feedback can be your guiding light to taking better decisions and actions
An Outside Opinion
A mentor, especially one outside your immediate personal and professional circle, can offer exceptional outside and external opinion giving you fresh perspectives to leverage from.
Being part of a mentorship program, commitment from both the mentor and the mentee plays a critical key to success. Take your time to choose the one mentor whom you believe can unlock yourself, once you have done the selection approach them with an open mind and share what are you looking for and come up with a plan with mutual agreement. I strongly recommend not to start evaluating your mentor's skills and attributes once the selection is done. Complete the program as planned and try to get on another mentorship program if need be. All the Best!!