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Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
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Join the mentor program
Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
Summary
What is mentoring? Why you should join the program as a
mentor. How far do you engage? How you can do it.
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Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
What is mentoring?
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Mentoring consists essentially in connecting 2 persons, where the experienced one is providing support, encouragement and guidance to the other.
As the concept of “experience” is only relative to a particular field or environment, it paves the way for cross mentoring where the 2 persons are alternatively embracing the roles of Mentor & Mentee.
In the digital area it is not uncommon, and often very rewarding, to implement reverse mentoring where a junior person provides guidance to a more senior one in the use of new equipment, software and social media.
Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
Why you should join the program as a mentor
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• It’s useful for the mentee. You cannot imagine how your experience can be valuable for a person who is only starting in a particular field or environment, be it a field of studies, a new place to work and live, a new career,…
• It’s rewarding. The best way to value your own experience is to get positive feedback from a person who is taking benefit of it. The more challenging and demanding the person, the more opportunities the relation is providing to revisit your experience, to conceptualize and synthesize it.
• You have the capacity to do so. People are often underassessing the width of their experience. They may consider mentoring is an affair of experts. But mentoring is neither coaching nor training, it is merely a question of transmission, of active listening and benevolence.
Because:
Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
How far do you engage?
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A typical mentoring program is extending over a period of 3 to 6 months.
You are having regular exchanges with your mentee, either face to face or via tel, skype and e-mail.
What the mentee is expecting from you is:
•To be present and focused on him and his development needs•To provide feedback and guidance to answer questions or to make choice•To be a facilitator (when it is possible), to help him access resources and information, connect with useful persons,…
Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
How you can do it
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Very simply:
•You tell us: an e-mail is enough
•We contact you to understand your career path and experience, identify your areas of interest and fields of expertise.
•You complete your personal information: you can choose to limitate the access to your personal information to members of the Mentoring group and/or of company/institution groups that you have joined)
•We facilitate the matching
•We provide support throughout your mentoring journey
Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
For further information
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Log on to http://www.career.dualexpat.com
•In the member section/guides/mentoring, read the Mentoring guide •(http://career.dualexpat.com/fr/node/2152)
• General presentation• For Mentors• For Mentees• Organizing mentoring• Mentoring Toolbox
Dualexpat.com – Why become a mentor Oct 2011.
Your contacts:
Paris
Raphaelle CollombTel: 06 82 07 72 [email protected]
Singapore
Bertrand FouquoireTel: + 65 9857 [email protected]
Sylvain PouillyTel: + 65 8265 [email protected]
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