First things First – What is Mentoring Sample Clauses

First things First – What is Mentoring. Mentoring is a means of supporting individual learning and development. It is about increasing an individual’s competence and confidence. It involves one person helping another to make significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking. It should be a clearly structured, time- bound and self-managed process with clear, mutually agreed roles and goals. For this reason we have developed the following handbook, which will guide you on these issues. It is essential that both mentor and mentee formulate their own expectations and goals for the relationship to establish a solid foundation for development, mutual learning and an equal dialogue. WIIS Austria has designed a Mentor Agreement to facilitate an understanding between the mentor and the mentee as to the ground rules, confidentiality and responsibilities of the relationship. As a mentor you should • Listen, ask, guide and be a partner; • Be an honest conversation partner; • Show respect; • Be willing to open your own networks to another person; • A mentor cannot and must not be an expert in everything. Meetings with the mentee should be held once every two months, once a month you should communicate via mail or text about progress, planed meetings, suggestions or any other pressing issues. Some of the things you should go over with, with your mentee should be CVs, cover letters, interview training, potential jobs and internships, and relevant networking events or panel discussions. Closer information on this can be found in section ##