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<div class=teaser-text><div style="background: #eee; float: left; padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px; margin-right: 5px;"><i class="fas fa-arrow-left">&nbsp;</i> [[During]]</div> [[File:Mentoring.png | 220px | right]]Mentoring is a relationship between people with different levels of experience. Its main goal is to enable learning and growth, often understood as non-formal practical learning. The more experienced mentor guides the mentee for a certain duration of time. In general mentoring is a tool for personal and professional development. The uniqueness of the mentoring comes along with its grand source of intrinsic motivation, support and understanding. It depends from a more personalized relation between the mentor and the mentee.  
<div class=teaser-text>[[File:Mentoring.png | 220px | right]]Mentoring is a relationship between people with different levels of experience. Its main goal is to enable learning and growth, often understood as non-formal practical learning. The more experienced mentor guides the mentee for a certain duration of time. In general mentoring is a tool for personal and professional development. The uniqueness of the mentoring comes along with its grand source of intrinsic motivation, support and understanding. It depends from a more personalized relation between the mentor and the mentee that is not usual for other forms of learning.  
 
 
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Today there are numerous programmes that create more focused structures for mentor-mentee relationships, which can take place in companies, in institutions, universities, schools, or social work.  They formalize the traditional informal mentoring relation in programs and use in this way mentoring as an approach of competency-based learning.  
 
Today there are numerous programmes that create more focused structures for mentor-mentee relationships, which can take place in companies, in institutions, universities, schools, or social work.  They formalize the traditional informal mentoring relation in programs and use in this way mentoring as an approach of competency-based learning.  
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===Mentoring: Definition===
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Mentoring represents an informal relationship between two people. An (often older) mentor supports a (less experienced) mentee by sharing his or her own personal experience and expertise, motivating and encouraging, advising and coaching.
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==A Personal Relation==
 
==A Personal Relation==
The personal connection and relationship between the mentor and mentee is one of the essentials for sucess and sustainability of the moentoring process. This is rather unusual for common forms of learning and teaching. Even if we know today how important personal relationsships and role models are in the development of people's personalities and their learning processes, especially in informal practical education.
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The personal relationship carries the learning process more than in other learning approaches. This is what makes mentoring stand out. The need to design the mentoring process in a way that values and supports personal relation and own commitment to the mentoring relationship and at the same time strengthens the autonomy of the mentees is one of the most important foundations of good mentoring.
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===Mentoring in Youth Work Practice: Shadi Zatara===
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Source: European Training Foundation, project [https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/what-we-do/teacher-booster Teacher Booster]
 
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===[[Checklist: Planning a Mentorship]]===
 
[[File:Check.png | left]]Mentorship is an inherently open-ended process. It lasts as long as both mentor and mentee want it to. Mentorship often takes place as part of a mentorship program or focuses on projects of specific duration such as a mentee's first year at a university. The mentor’s and the mentee’s needs help develop a structure to define roles.
 
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===[[Phases of Mentoring]]===
 
[[File:Article.png | left]]The model describes a typical process of mentoring. Most mentorships are embedded in a program’s framework and these programs last from a few months up to a year, in some cases even longer.
 
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[[File:Article.png | left]]Mentors’ and mentees’ awareness of their own responsibilities can change throughout the course of a mentorship. This can lead to lack of clarity or, at times, disappointments. Therefore, we advise that responsibilities be addressed in every phase of a mentorship, not just the first part.
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===[[Documentation of a Mentorship]]===
 
[[File:Check.png | left]]Documentation can be done in different ways - in form of a protocoll, an assessment or by using journals.
 
 
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===[[Checklist: Preparing a Mentoring Meeting]]===
 
[[File:Check.png | left]]As a mentor you decide about the flow and the nature of a meeting with a mentee. This checklists could help to decide about your way of hosting this meeting.
 
 
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[[File:Check.png | left]]Standard template for a goal oriented documentation of a meeting
 
  
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[[File:Check.png | left]]An assessment sheet is for reflecting and evaluating the process of a meeting. This template is a tool for mentors, but mentees can also complete assessment sheets.
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Providing Systemic Support for Mentees and Their Projects
 
Providing Systemic Support for Mentees and Their Projects
  
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Latest revision as of 15:32, 15 April 2024

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Mentoring is a relationship between people with different levels of experience. Its main goal is to enable learning and growth, often understood as non-formal practical learning. The more experienced mentor guides the mentee for a certain duration of time. In general mentoring is a tool for personal and professional development. The uniqueness of the mentoring comes along with its grand source of intrinsic motivation, support and understanding. It depends from a more personalized relation between the mentor and the mentee.

Today there are numerous programmes that create more focused structures for mentor-mentee relationships, which can take place in companies, in institutions, universities, schools, or social work. They formalize the traditional informal mentoring relation in programs and use in this way mentoring as an approach of competency-based learning.

Mentoring: Definition

Mentoring represents an informal relationship between two people. An (often older) mentor supports a (less experienced) mentee by sharing his or her own personal experience and expertise, motivating and encouraging, advising and coaching.


Purposes of Mentoring Programs

Building Personal Relationships

Mentoring creates positive personal experiences and trust. It forges connections between mentors and mentees.

Learning Life Skills

The effect is most evident in the mentee, who gains knowledge and experience.

Teaching

Transfer of knowledge from the mentor to the mentee with an emphasis on results.

Assisting in Transition

Support of mentees in transforming personal interests and skills into forming new perspectives.

Sharing Power

Qualifying people for particular psoitions. Closer connections between various hierarchical levels.

Close to Practice

By its nature mentoring is accompanying the everyday activities of mentees, helping mentees in learning and growing. Therefore, mentoring as a mixture of knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences, motivation and encouragement, an counceling and coaching.

In a successful mentorship mentee and mentor will typically have profits like

  • Support in work and career
  • A bigger personal network
  • Gain of expertise and knowledge
  • Closer relation to an institution, party or company, that provides a mentoring program
  • Trustful and authentic feedback regarding their action and social competencies as leaders
  • Shared values and idealism

A Personal Relation

The personal relationship carries the learning process more than in other learning approaches. This is what makes mentoring stand out. The need to design the mentoring process in a way that values and supports personal relation and own commitment to the mentoring relationship and at the same time strengthens the autonomy of the mentees is one of the most important foundations of good mentoring.

Mentoring in Youth Work Practice: Shadi Zatara


Source: European Training Foundation, project Teacher Booster




Inspiring Handbooks and Resources


Nils-Eyk Zimmermann

Nils-Eyk Zimmermann

Editor of Competendo. He writes and works on the topics: active citizenship, civil society, digital transformation, non-formal and lifelong learning, capacity building. Coordinator of European projects, in example DIGIT-AL Digital Transformation in Adult Learning for Active Citizenship, DARE network.

Blogs here: Blog: Civil Resilience.
Email: nils.zimmermann@dare-network.eu