Mentoring can help the younger generation to develop new skills to overcome their problems and to make them confident in making their own decisions. Also mentoring can help in the development of effective communication skills that can help young people in their interviews or form network.
Here is how mentoring can help the young generation go through challenging life transitions.
Provide knowledge:
When you connect with a good mentor, they will provide you with knowledge through their long-term experience that can help you in your development for both professional and personal careers. You should be confident in asking for any help you need from your mentor because all difficulties that you are facing at the current time, you mentor has already experienced that and they can provide you many ways to deal with such type of problems.
Help you improve:
Well, a good mentor will always be honest towards you and through your performance, they will tell you the areas where you need improvement and will guide you in better ways to make improvements in yourself.
Great mentors are well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of their mentees and motivate them to develop new skills to tackle their weaknesses.
Broaden professional network:
“The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves,” said Steven Spielberg, Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter and producer known for films such as ‘Jaws,’ ‘E.T.,’ ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Schindler’s List,’ among many others. Steven Allan Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He began his career in the New Hollywood era, and is one of the most commercially successful directors in history.
Your mentor will already have a strong network with many other successful people due to their life-long experience. A mentor can help in building a good mentoring relationship with their mentees. When you have a good mentoring relationship then your mentor can introduce you to their professional network that can offer you lots of opportunities for your goal.
Improving communication skills:
The most important thing that you will need to succeed in your life is effective communication skills. A good mentor will guide you in better ways to develop your communication skills and also they will provide you knowledge about why effective communication is important in life.
Developing your communication skill can help you to connect with many people and to form many networks that can help you in achieving your goal. Also when your mentor provides you good communication about tasks and guidance this will offer a great mentoring relationship.
Advice:
When you want to make any important decision for your career or for any personal matter, you will need somebody’s advice. Having a good mentor can help to get that important advice because they have great experience in things that you are struggling with right now. They can provide you better guidance to make the right decision also they can help you to develop your decision-making skills.
Reza Satchu is the Co-Chairmen at NEXT Canada founded in 2010 is one of the leading examples of a perfect mentor who provides education, mentorship, and start-up funding to the most promising entrepreneurs. Reza Satchu is also a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School where he teaches Launching Technology Ventures and The Entrepreneurial Manager.