This document provides tips for effective mentorship. It recommends that institutions provide mentoring guides and templates. Mentors should build rapport, respect confidentiality, and help mentees solve their own problems rather than giving direct advice. They should plan individual and group sessions, maintain records of sessions, and develop communication, listening, and interpersonal skills. Mentors can take on guiding, challenging, and modeling roles for mentees. Distance mentoring through email or apps can also be useful.
This document provides tips for effective mentorship. It recommends that institutions provide mentoring guides and templates. Mentors should build rapport, respect confidentiality, and help mentees solve their own problems rather than giving direct advice. They should plan individual and group sessions, maintain records of sessions, and develop communication, listening, and interpersonal skills. Mentors can take on guiding, challenging, and modeling roles for mentees. Distance mentoring through email or apps can also be useful.
This document provides tips for effective mentorship. It recommends that institutions provide mentoring guides and templates. Mentors should build rapport, respect confidentiality, and help mentees solve their own problems rather than giving direct advice. They should plan individual and group sessions, maintain records of sessions, and develop communication, listening, and interpersonal skills. Mentors can take on guiding, challenging, and modeling roles for mentees. Distance mentoring through email or apps can also be useful.
Annasaheb Dange College of Engineering & Technology,
Ashta Department of Basic Sciences Counseling Cell
Effective Mentorship tips
1. Institute should have Mentoring Guide with templates and worksheets
2. Build a healthy rapport with mentee, develop trust and respect, clear expectations from the program. 3. Identification of the student’s concern or the problem is important 4. Maintain confidentiality 5. Be empathetic while mentoring, don’t be judgmental( unconditional acceptance is important) 6. Know the difference between student and mentee 7. Help the mentee solve his or her own problems, rather than giving direct advice. 8. Plan individual as well as group session also 9. Plan a debate, discussion, presentation or guest lecture for group session 10. For individual program it is not necessary to have some problem each time 11. Be professional but flexible also 12. Mentor should be assertive not aggressive 13. Each mentor should have minimum five skills (Rapport building skill, communication skill, questioning skill, listening skill, interpersonal skill) 14. Mentors can help mentees as a ‘Guide’ (hands on guidance, explaining how and why, creating opportunities to learn), as a ‘Challenger’ ( ‘Making waves’; challenging, stimulating, questioning), as a ‘Role model’ ( The mentee unconsciously adopts aspects of the mentor’s thinking, behaviors and style) 15. Sometimes Distance mentoring can be helpful ( e-mail, whats app, telephonic mentoring ) 16. Keep the record of each session 17. Session length should be planned before session ( Max 45 to 60 min.)