A mentor can help you t
- find direction in your career
- access networks and contacts
- improve your managerial or leadership skills
- gain the opportunity to work with someone who understands your business from the inside
- achieve an insight into another person’s challenges, skills and responsibilities
- develop your own mentoring skills
Because of the departmentalised nature of the organisation, there’s a whole aspect of leadership that you don’t have access to, because it falls outside of your current job role. Mentoring gives you a valuable window on to another job – another set of challenges, another set of responsibilities – that you can take back with you and use in the context of your own role.
Participant on the City University Cultural Leadership Programme
