Mentoring Benefits

Mentoring is a meaningful commitment that provides professional and person support to facilitate growth and success. Mentoring complements training and coaching. . Mentors aid by giving advice on dealing with frustration, giving constructive criticism, handling disappointment, behaving with humility and compassion. Mentoring ensures mentees with the security of feeling not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges. Proverbs 27:17 states
“Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” Research has shown that mentoring relationships can have a positive effect on improving the quality mentees bring to personal and professional situation. Ultimately, mentoring connects mentees to personal growth, development, social and economic opportunities.
However, no demographic is more in dire need of mentoring as women and minorities. Women and minorities are seriously underrepresented in the workplace. Mentoring has been identified as one of the significant factors in addressing this underrepresentation. This papered will discuss the role of mentors in enhancing opportunities for women and minorities. In addition, it will discuss how peer mentoring can be used effectively when mentors cannot be found.
The role of mentors for women and minorities is to address in enhancing opportunities for this demographic. Minorities and women can experience hostile work environments from colleagues, by not being familiar with workplace expectations. Also, women may also experience biases dues to being a mother decreases others’ perceptions of the woman’s competence and commitment to her career. In addition. Women may also deal with the struggle of achieving a balance between spending more time on childcare and other home duties than men. Mentoring support is needed to overcome these issues. However, Women and minorities face a disadvantage in getting mentoring. Women and minorities have fewer mentors, which led to isolation, and may be less access to network to gain opportunities. “There is nothing more isolating and alienating than to be the first or only person of one’s race and/or ethnicity to be hired in a department, and a mentoring relationship is one way to escape from that isolation,” (Stanley and Lincoln 2005, p. 45).
Addressing the lack of mentors is difficult. There is an assumption that mentoring is more beneficial when the mentor and mentee are of the same gender and race or ethnicity (Stanley and Lincoln 2005), but that is not necessarily true. Cross-race mentoring is necessary because numbers of women and minority mentors remains small. Cross-race mentoring requires extra sensitivity because racial, cultural, and ethnic differences strongly influence how individuals view and experience the world (Stanley and Lincoln 2005). In addition. Another issue with lack of mentors can be overcome by using peer mentors. Peer mentoring takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee). Peer mentoring offers several benefits for both mentor and mentee. Peer mentoring is a mutual way of learning and allowing both participants to develop transferable skills that will help them during their entire career. Provers 22:6 states” Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.”
In, conclusion Mentoring is a meaningful commitment that provides professional and person support to facilitate growth and success.
Mentoring provided a complementary relationship to training and coaching. Mentors aid by giving advice on dealing with frustration, giving constructive criticism, handling disappointment, behaving with humility and compassion. Mentoring ensures mentees with the security of feeling not alone in dealing with day-to-day challenges. Research has shown that mentoring relationships can have a positive effect on improving the quality mentees bring to personal and professional situation. Ultimately, mentoring connects mentees to personal growth, development, social and economic opportunities. However, no demographic is more in dire need of mentoring as women and minorities. Women and minorities are seriously underrepresented in the workplace. Mentoring has been identified as one of the significant factors in addressing this underrepresentation. However, there are storages is the available resources for experienced and appropriate mentors. Peer mentoring can address this issue. Peer mentoring takes place between a person who has lived through a specific experience (peer mentor) and a person who is new to that experience (the peer mentee). Peer mentoring offers several benefits for both mentor and mentee. Providing mentoring is a unique way of exerting a life-on-life influence on people so that they can be transformed. It is a Christian way of on passing on blessings and faith to others, by being a light, truth and unselfish. Mentoring allows mentors to appreciate the grace of God and provide blessings and a path to success to
mentees.