mentoring
(noun)
Acting as a teacher or guide; providing advice and direction for one less experienced.
Examples of mentoring in the following topics:
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Financial Rewards for Managers
- These may include coaching, higher education, mentoring, reflective supervision, technical training, and consultation.
- Mentoring – Mentoring is an excellent approach to enhance career success in which a manager matches two employees of different experience levels to learn from one another.
- Mentoring is usually accomplished by allowing an outside observer to evaluate and suggest improvements for newer employees who have had less time to develop in a particular role.
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Mintzberg's Management Roles
- Mentor: seeks and receives a wide variety of special information (much of it current) to develop a thorough understanding of the organization and environment; emerges as the nerve center of internal and external information for the organization.
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Key Behaviors of Transformational Leaders
- Individualized consideration is the degree to which the leader attends to each follower's needs, acts as a mentor or coach to the follower, and listens to the follower's concerns.
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Employee Orientation
- Orientation is a reasonably broad process, generally carried out by the human resources department, that may incorporate lectures, videos, meetings, computer-based programs, team-building exercises, and mentoring.
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Middle-Level Management
- Because middle managers work with both top-level managers and first-level managers, middle managers tend to have excellent interpersonal skills relating to communication, motivation, and mentoring.
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Non-Monetary Employee Compensation
- These can include benefits (including medical or other insurance), flex-time, time off, free or discounted parking, gym membership discounts, retirement matching, mentoring programs, tuition assistance, and childcare.
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Frontline Management
- These frontline managers will be directing operations at the facility, tracking employee behavior and interaction, assessing efficiency, and using technical skills to mentor workers and improve processes.
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Four Theories of Leadership
- Individualized consideration: the degree to which the leader attends to each follower's concerns and needs and acts as a mentor or coach
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Fulfilling the Leading Function
- Good leaders use their own inner mentors to energize their team and organizations and lead a team to achieve success.
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Developing Leadership Skills
- Support—which comes in the form of bosses, co-workers, friends, family, coaches, and mentors—enables leaders to handle the struggle of developing.