Mentoring

What is mentoring?

Mentoring is a process of sharing and transferring knowledge and experience. A mentor will usually have knowledge and experience in a specific area of expertise, and the mentee will seek the guidance of the mentor in those areas.

A mentor might be a more experienced colleague elsewhere in an organisation, who can support a mentee as they undertake similar experiences that the mentor has undertaken. A mentor, having specific experience to share with the mentee, will often give the mentee the answer to a question.

However, a coach does not necessarily have to have the specific experience required to answer a specific question. Coaching will help the coachee to find their answer.

Mentoring and coaching can be very similar and their use will often overlap in the course of a project – a coach might mentor a client and a mentor might also coach a client, whilst working within appropriate boundaries.

Who are your clients?

Our mentoring work focuses upon specific areas of our experience that we seek to share with clients. The subject areas for mentoring would cover the sharing of interpersonal skills, leadership, personal effectiveness, emotional intelligence, coaching skills etc.

Our mentoring clients are usually CEOs, MDs, and business owners. We have worked with numerous mentees in the Help to Grow program.

How is a mentoring project structured?

A mentoring project under the Government-sponsored Enterprise Nation Help to Grow scheme is delivered according to that programme’s nationwide structure, offering a defined number of hours. 

Outside the Help to Grow structure, we deliver mentoring-style support as an integral part of the tool kit deployed in every coaching project.