mentoring

Examples of mentoring in the following topics:

• Financial Rewards for Managers

  • These may include coaching, higher education, mentoring, reflective supervision, technical training, and consultation.
  • Mentoring – Mentoring is an excellent approach to enhance career success in which a manager matches two employees of different experience levels to learn from one another.
  • Mentoring is usually accomplished by allowing an outside observer to evaluate and suggest improvements for newer employees who have had less time to develop in a particular role.

• Mintzberg's Management Roles

  • Mentor: seeks and receives a wide variety of special information (much of it current) to develop a thorough understanding of the organization and environment; emerges as the nerve center of internal and external information for the organization.

• Key Behaviors of Transformational Leaders

  • Individualized consideration is the degree to which the leader attends to each follower's needs, acts as a mentor or coach to the follower, and listens to the follower's concerns.

• Employee Orientation

  • Orientation is a reasonably broad process, generally carried out by the human resources department, that may incorporate lectures, videos, meetings, computer-based programs, team-building exercises, and mentoring.

• Middle-Level Management

  • Because middle managers work with both top-level managers and first-level managers, middle managers tend to have excellent interpersonal skills relating to communication, motivation, and mentoring.

• Non-Monetary Employee Compensation

  • These can include benefits (including medical or other insurance), flex-time, time off, free or discounted parking, gym membership discounts, retirement matching, mentoring programs, tuition assistance, and childcare.

• Frontline Management

  • These frontline managers will be directing operations at the facility, tracking employee behavior and interaction, assessing efficiency, and using technical skills to mentor workers and improve processes.

• Four Theories of Leadership

  • Individualized consideration: the degree to which the leader attends to each follower's concerns and needs and acts as a mentor or coach

• Fulfilling the Leading Function

  • Good leaders use their own inner mentors to energize their team and organizations and lead a team to achieve success.

• Developing Leadership Skills

  • Support—which comes in the form of bosses, co-workers, friends, family, coaches, and mentors—enables leaders to handle the struggle of developing.