What are the benifits of Mentoring?

Mentoring has benefits, these benefits are summarised below:


Knowledge and skills benefit
• Faster learning
• Widens experience
• Developing new knowledge and skills
• Supporting innovation

Managing change
• Support for culture change
• Support for reorganisation and restructuring
• Support for people in new roles and new jobs
• Helps develop a positive attitude to change

Motivation
• Improved job satisfaction and motivation
• Improved commitment to employing organisation
• Improved career progression
• Potential rejuvenation of longer serving staff

Performance
• Enhanced achievement of targets
• Increased productivity
• Reduced complaints

Policy implementation
• Improved staff retention
• Improved implementation of diversity policy
• Better management of "talent"
• Aids development of empowerment policies

Succession planning
• Leadership skills
• Improved succession planning, confidence and well being in change situations

Mentoring can also promote cultural diversity and can be used as a positive tool to enhance quality.