What is mentoring? Find out how it can help you achieve your goals

 

Mentoring is a teaching practice andI turned onzaje, which is carried out with the advice and guidance of a figure known as a "mentor".

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The mentor is that professional and competent person who shares his experience to help others. It is a source of inspiration on a specific topic or field. In this sense, a good mentor is characterized by being empathetic, fostering creativity, orienting towards results, having the ability to listen and knowing how to deal with obstacles. Instead, on the other hand, a good apprentice remains active during the process to, with the help of his mentor, achieve the desired goals.

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Currently, there are several types of mentoring, although they are all based on listening, asking and giving an opinion: 

 

• One by one: Private sessions for professionals in which the specific needs of the case are worked on.

• Bidirectional: Two professionals from different fields exchange their experiences and knowledge to complement each other's.

• group: A mentor shares his experience with a group of professionals.

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Likewise, this practice can be focused on many sectors, but mentoring for businessmen and collaborators or employees stands out. However, as Eva Icarán, a professor at the European University, emphasizes, mentoring can also be applied to the educational field with the possibility of guiding students to develop and take advantage of their skills and, thus, insert themselves in the best possible way In the laboral world.

And it is that, as indicated by Richard Branson, a British businessman and co-founder of the Virgin Group, who requested the guidance and support of the entrepreneur Freddie Laker, "it is always good to have a helping hand at the beginning or, on the contrary, without the mentoring of Sir Freddie Laker, you wouldn't have gotten anywhere in the airline industry."