Understanding Good Practice in Workplace Mentoring

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Understanding Good Practice in Workplace Mentoring I am a Watch Manger at Crewe Community Fire Station in Cheshire. I have spent 3 years in Operational Training Group and I am competent in an Operational and training role. I now need to mentor my team and Fire cadets within the organisation. There are also new firefighters that I will mentor, our phase two firefighters. Mentoring is one of the important and essential skills for leadership and management. First of all we need to define what Mentoring is? According to Wikipedia mentoring definition is “Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and during a sustained period of time, between a person who is perceived to have greater relevant knowledge, wisdom, or experience (the mentor) and a person who is perceived to have less (the protégé)". Another definition is “A mentor opens a space in their life for another to step into. A mentor is there”. Danielle Carey Understanding the context for effective workplace mentoring * Describe and define the purpose of workplace mentoring (16 marks) Workplace mentoring is a learning partnership between employees for purposes of sharing technical information, institutional knowledge and insight with respect to a particular occupation, profession, organization or endeavour. Mentoring is perhaps best described as a developmental process - dynamic and unique to each person. Informal mentoring relationships may develop in the work setting when a more seasoned employee takes a new employee “under his/her wing.” Formal mentoring programs allow organizations to create and nurture those relationships by matching more experienced employees (mentors)

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