Personal mentoring is a non-directive interaction to help you make your own career and life choices. The non-directive aspect is what distinguishes mentoring form both coaching and training. Non-directive means that you develop your own conclusion and decisions based on your own analysis. Examples can include for example, career changes, personal development plans and role development.
The mentoring is based on enhancing self-awareness by providing feedback on your traits, values, preferences and behaviour. The heart and soul of mentoring is about thinking about your work, social and family influences and balances in order to identify common patterns, sources of energy and motivations. In particular, it involves considering the impact of your behaviour on others and the impact of the behaviour of others on you.
Your enhanced self-awareness improves confidence, reduces stress and anxiety and leads to greater personal effectiveness, both professionally and personally. Being more aware of, and sensitive to, how people perceive you reduces barriers and increases your own sphere of influence.
As part of the interaction, participants will be offered the option to complete and receive feedback on their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. This provides a constructive framework for looking at how people prefer to take in information, make decisions and live their lives.
Personal mentoring is distinguished from:
The interaction and agreement normally involves:
Example question: What sort of job would you do if you were not paid?