...(1995), the act of mentoring is defined as a process where a younger individual is paired with an older, person for the purpose of attaining guidance and support. Mentoring is becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s work force, and becoming more of a necessity rather than a consideration. It is likely that most, if not all, individuals will form one of these mentor-mentee relationships during some point in his or her professional career. There are several advantages, as well as possible disadvantages, to forming one of these relationships. When thinking of mentoring, a one on one relationship usually comes to mind; however, multiple-mentor relationships make another valid option available. In any mentoring relationship, there does come a great deal of responsibility. You are responsible for molding that person. Mentoring is a growing trend among working professionals; it has many benefits, and will help individuals gain success, and provide a fulfilling role for the mentor. Disadvantages/Problems Unfortunately, not all mentor-mentee relationships assist in the professional development of an individual. Occasionally, but not always, there can be problems in a mentoring relationship. There is always a chance that personalities and communication styles may not mesh, or poor advice be given by the mentor (Nolinske, 1995, p. 40). Creating an environment in which the mentee is evaluated based solely on his or her skill level and aptitude can also create a problem. The pureness...
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...supervisors. I first feel a mentor is a good coach that is able to teach a specific skill to others no matter what their background knowledge is in the area. Also I feel a good mentor must challenge the mentoree and take them out of their comfort zone. In designing a mentoring program my main focuses would be make everyone familiar with the organization's norms and culture, the mentor must show the mentoree the company culture, the mentor must demonstrate honesty, integrity, respect, and most of all responsibility. In addition the mentor must show the mentoree how to take ownership, demonstrate effective communication skills both verbally and nonverbally. I have always felt communication is key principle to success. In any business, program or situation there can never be enough communication. A mentor will help develop the mentoree through guidance, feedback, and occasionally an insistence on a particular level of performance or appropriate direction. When establishing a mentor program you must also look at the mentor. There are a few things I would look for and expect in my program from the mentor, such as the mentor must be a career focused individual, this person must have a good attitude no matter the situation, willing to listen and think outside of the box. Anyone can be a mentor to almost anyone, the key is the person must be able to make a difference, teach other along the way and willing to make a difference. As I stated anyone can be a mentor, but making a difference...
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...There is an abundance of beauty and good in the world, but it still has plenty of problems. The world could be made better. Many of us would like to help build a better world, but taking on the whole world as a project can certainly seem overwhelming. Where does one even begin? And what can one person with simple resources actually do? Well, good news! There really is an easy answer! Listed below are five things that anyone can do to help build a better world. Now, the actual work may not be easy...but it will be challenging and rewarding. And it will also likely be a lot of fun. So let's get started. If you want to build a better world: OWN YOURSELF. Recognize that you are a sovereign and unique Individual and make the decision to own yourself in spirit, mind and body. Become the owner of your life and destiny and take personal responsibility for them. This essential decision will guide your other decisions in life, re-orienting and re-creating your existence around the principle of personal sovereignty. Recognizing the sovereignty of other Individuals provides the foundation for ethical social interactions. Owning yourself and recognizing the sovereignty of others are both ongoing processes. BECOME POWERFUL. Creating a better world requires the efforts of powerful Individuals. You can contribute to the new population of powerful Individuals by starting with yourself. Empower yourself physically by getting optimum nutrition and exercising for strength, flexibility and endurance...
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...Since becoming a student at Arizona College, I have received a reasonable amount of help from my peers and teachers, which has brought me to make the decision to become a peer mentor. In the short amount of time that I have been attending Arizona College, I have seen many faces come and go and how most of the students here at Arizona College are always willing to help each other out. A meaningful experience to me that I would like to share is that when I first started my journey here as a new student I was a little bit skeptical and afraid since it had been quite some time since I had been a student, but little by little I started getting familiarized with my other classmates and teachers, especially one of my current teachers Ms. Maria Romero who was the one that truly encouraged me sign up and become a peer mentor, her disposition to always help and willingness to even stay after class to tutor has made me realize that I can also help others and make their college experience a bit easier. One of my biggest qualities that I believe will help me achieve the goal as a peer mentor will definitely be the passion I have towards helping others, there is not a single thing that I can think off that will prevent me from helping, and while I may not be the smartest student here I do have the desire and dedication to help out when it is needed, even if I do not have the answer because I know together we will find it. As a peer mentor there is also a lot to be done aside from...
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...The mentorship program should be tailored around highly regarded, knowledgeable, compassionate individuals who work or reside within the vicinity of underprivileged communities. The mentors should be socially responsible, productive and capable of assisting at risk and repeat offenders with personal development, re-examination of poor decision making, and provide guidance which will encourage the creation of law-abiding productive members of society. Mentorship, as the term itself describes, should be a process whereby the exchange amongst the mentor and mentee would be valuable to both...
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...moderately low need for affiliation (Yukl, 2013)." Today, there are many leaders in the world that are highly respected and followed by people in the world. Being respected by your peers also helps a leader to gain confidence to lead, motivate, and powerful. There are different leadership styles such as authoritative. Effective leaders know how to adapt to any environment that they need to lead. Authoritative style is known as bring a team together and solving problems. The leader of choice to analyze was my manager of six years at Cedars – Sinai Medical Center, who pass in 2007 of cancer. Anita Howse was the finance manager who handled the nursing finances in the medical center. During the six years she was my manager; she also became my mentor and motivated me to go back to college. Anita’s leadership style was more of an authoritative style, she was able to solve issues, motivate others, adapt to any changes within the medical center environment, and people came to her for help and her opinion was...
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...Dunny’s face (Davies, 148). Boy never grew mentally. Boy symbolizes the appearance of things, directly conflicting Dunny’s values of reality. And while many may believe that Dunny is the Hero of Fifth Business, he is better suited to the archetype of the Wise Old Man. The Wise Old Man acts as uses his personal knowledge to help offer guidance.To support this claim, one could take the example of his teenage years when he worked in a library. Dunny became focused on his goal of being a polymath. He read encyclopedias and various books on magic. As the novel progresses, Dunny ends up teaching at a private school as well as studying history and becoming a hagiologist, writing a book about saints. After the Great War, Dunny is injured and has to use a cane to walk. With this, he visually resembles an old man. The Wise Old Man is a mentor and teacher, especially to...
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...Hero’s Journey of the Dead Poet’s Society Religion in Film “Carpe diem... Seize the day, boys, make your lives extraordinary.” -Robin Williams (John Keating) Written by Tom Schulman Directed by Peter Weir An English teacher with ideas of free thinking teaches his students not only to think for themselves, but helps to establish a love of poetry. Ultimately, the movie Dead Poet’s Society fills me with nostalgia for New England between its brilliant display of tradition, prep schools and brilliant autumn sceneries. This movie has since sat at the top of my list of favorites since its inception into the theater in 1989. LANDMARKS OF THE JOURNEY Set at the best boy’s prep school in New England, this story introduces us to motivated and impressionable young lads who are inspired and moved by their English teacher, John Keating who was once a student at the same academy. While all the boys we meet have various teenage angst with which they face, there are three main characters who undergo intense transformations as they are faced with different conflicts (INMOST CAVE) that they must face. Neil Perry, the driven lad with a passion for acting must face his father’s strict guidelines for what he has planned for his son. Todd Anderson faces the pressures of following the footsteps of his popular and successful older brother. Struck by the beauty of an unavailable young girl, Knox Overstreet seeks his inner romantic and forges on with being led...
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...Mentoring Mentoring is something that is used every day in life. People are often mentors and do not even realize it. There are two different types of mentoring that can take place. The first is informal mentoring, an example of which would be directing someone to a classroom or helping someone understand an assignment. The second is formal mentoring which takes place in a workplace or school. The organization assigns someone to mentor a colleague, and make sure that they fully understand the tasks given, and are a resource in a situation that the mentee cannot resolve themselves. Both methods are very effective in everyday life and are used by many people. Organizations can bring greater predictability to the workplace by establishing formal mentoring systems. Mentoring is a method people use to help other in making sure that things are done efficiently and effectively and that people have the support they need when they are stuck in a situation they may not be used to dealing with and may not know how to fix. In order to better understand how mentoring can be applied in a real world situation, we interviewed three people in the St. Lawrence Business faculty who are directly involved in mentoring. First we mentored Melinda Vanzanten, who was a mentee, Ann Vadala, who was her mentor, and finally John Conrad, who organizes mentoring in the faculty. Our first interviewee was Melinda Vanzanten, who gave us some personal accounts of how mentoring has affected her professionally...
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...Every choice a person makes changes their life. Those changes maybe good or they may be bad. In The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, there are two people with one name, Wes Moore, but they each have two completely different fates because of the decisions they made. Two qualities of becoming successful in life are having good mentors and setting and maintaining standards. The author Wes had good mentors to guide him through his life and set standards for himself. He had two significant mentors in his life, his mother and father. His father died when Wes was young, but his father still had an impact on him. "'Hey, Main Man, do you mind if I come in?' I'm told that he had many terms of endearment for me, but Main Man is the one I remember" (Moore...
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... It is a powerful empowering and personal development tool that help individuals to progress in their career. Mentoring is recently becoming popular as its potential is being realized. Mentoring is referred to as a mutual relationship that exists between two people. (Mentor and Mentee). A mentor is a person who is mentoring while mentee is the individual being mentored. The two individuals are usually in the same field or are sharing similar experiences. The mentor guides mentee in finding the career direction as well as solving career issues along the process. They usually rely on experiences that are similar to gain empathy and understand issues with the mentee. The whole process provides an opportunity to the mentee to evaluate their career progress and options. A mentor helps to boost the confidence of mentee and to believe in themselves. The mentoring process has several benefits to the mentee. One, the process offers great clarity to the mentee regarding career choices as well as the goals that they want to achieve. Two, it enhances high career satisfaction hence increasing the likelihood of an individual succeeding. Additionally, the process allows the mentor to develop network connections as well as gain access to career role models (Mary & Jung , 2007)....
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...With the singular influences of a mentor to prepare one for a creative career the artist articulation of opinions and voice can become fogged by the mentor's own, The development of opinions and artistic voice is vital to becoming an artist or designer without, the artist may begin to lose their own voice which is necessary to create the impact art is made to enrich others. Therefore a single mentor should be preparing an artist for their career alone. Artist use their voices to create, an artistic voice is created with the development of others voices and opinions. Multiple people play a role in the development of an artistic voice, with a singular person preparing one for their path, an artist may begin to lose a differentiated voice that is unique, an artist must draw inspiration from many places to create a diversity which allows them to stand out. Therefore no single person should be the only source for preparation for a career path. There is no one...
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...Professor Schoenly Importance of Mentoring In Nursing My Vision for nursing is for nurses to become more proactive in mentoring nursing staff both new and old. The role of the nurse mentor is often referred to as preceptorship. Although mentoring and precepting are different, they are still similar but often overlap. By nurses taking part in mentoring their peers, they are helping to promote leadership skills, teaching skills, and foster professional development for all nursing staff. The CNA (2004) states, “Mentoring involves voluntary, mutually beneficial, and long-term professional relationships among nurses if done effectively and respectfully. In this relationship, one person is an experienced and knowledgeable leader (mentor) who supports the maturation and education of a less experienced person, for example, new nurses and returning nurses (mentees) to the work place with leadership. There are so many opportunities for the seasoned nurse to teach new and returning nurses but because of often hectic schedules, staffing issues, and nursing shortages this often falls to the wayside. This can lead to lack of confidence, frustration, and feelings of being “lost” out in the work area. Nurses often streamline their duties to complete their shift in a timely fashion and opportunities to mentor or teach are missed. These missed opportunities would have provided the potential to increase the new staff’s knowledge base, assessment skills, or and confidence in their nursing roles...
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...the opportunity to be in two classes that would help me live my future before it came; teaching may take a while, however the lessons learned along the way, and the outcome, is so worth the wait. Becoming a teacher comes with obstacles, lessons, tests, etc., therefore, going into teaching one needs to know what teaching is, how to get there, and what comes...
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...that Volunteer Mentors have an enormous contribution to make to the prevention of re-offending and bring great benefits in their work with offenders, such as….. * Providing valuable links with the local community * Acting as a positive role model * Bringing new skills and interests * Complementing and enhancing the work of Wiltshire Probation Trust Why become a Volunteer Mentor? Becoming a Volunteer Mentor with Opening Doors will provide you with an opportunity to help reduce re-offending in your local community therebybenefiting offenders, potential victims, your local community and society as a whole. Other benefits include; Personal challenge, development and achievement, new and improved skills, opportunities to meet new people, work experience and increased career options We also offer…. A full Induction / Training Package; We run a three day Induction Package which covers everything you need to know regardless of your level of experience or knowledge Regular supervision; Regular meetings with the Project Co-ordinator will ensure that you are finding your time spent with Opening Doors to be rewarding and beneficial and that we are achieving our aims. Supervision is also held regularly as a group, giving you the chance to meet and spend time with other Volunteer Mentors Regular developmental training; You will be required to attend regular developmental training; this will either be Volunteer Mentor...
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