The IEE Mentoring Service

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The IEE Mentoring Service Presents Energise
Your Career Development Get a Mentor. By
Tony Johns Mentoring Consultant to IEE
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The IEE Mentoring Services

• objective is
• to enable IEE members of all grades to
• recognise
• and realise
• their full career potential.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• helps members to cope with changes
• in Society,
• but particularly with employment,
• in large companies,
• in small and medium sized companies,
• and in self employment.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Case Studies
• Telemachus (Son of Odysseus)
• Michael Faraday
• Bill Gates
• Richard Branson
• and ?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 1
• Who in your past do you feel most
• influenced your decision
• to pursue your current career?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Complements the informal network of-
• family, friends and neighbours
• school and college teachers, tutors, and
  fellow students
• work managers and colleagues
• by activating the network of fellow
  professionals within the IEE

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• recognises the equal importance of the
• Mentees role by -
• maximising informality
• providing guidelines but no contract
• treating Mentors and Mentees as professionals
• And minimising formality.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• recognises that
• the Skills required for mentoring come naturally
  to most people,
• but
• like all skills, they can be honed and improved
  with training and practice.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• stresses that Mentoring requires questioning and
  active listening skills,
• with mutual trust, confidence, respect, and
  openness
• to help, guide and encourage,
• and is NOT about counselling, advising, coaching,
  training, teaching, or therapy.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• I keep six honest serving men
• (They taught me all I knew)
• Their names are What and Why and When
• And How and Where and Who.
• From The Elephants Child
• by Rudyard Kipling

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 2

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 2
• What do you consider to be your greatest
• achievement in your life so far?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 3

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 3
• What do you consider to be your
• unfufilled blue sky ambition?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Mentors help mentees to recognise their own
  achievements and potential
• These exercises were designed to give you
  practice in doing just that.
• As well as enabling you to practice your
  questioning and listening skills.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 4
• How would you as a Mentee define your Mentors
  role?
• Complete the following statement, My mentor will
  help me by

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• A mentor provides HELP and GUIDANCE to enable a
  mentee to recognise their own development
  POTENTIAL.
• A mentor also provides ENCOURAGEMENT to realise
  that potential,
• PRAISE and CELEBRATION when progress is made,
• and then the CHALLENGE to do more.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 5
• What would you consider to be the appropriate
  attributes of a Mentee?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• A Mentee seeks and accepts HELP and GUIDANCE to
  recognise their own development POTENTIAL
• A Mentee is OPEN, THOUGHTFUL and HONEST when
  responding to the Mentor
• Is DETERMINED to make progress
• and RESPONDS to the CHALLENGE to do more.

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Workshop Exercise No. 6
• Networking can be a source of mentors, but how
  can networking be of use in mentoring?

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Use Your Network
• Its not only what you know that matters, but who
  you know
• and who knows you
• and if you dont know each other,
• introduce yourself!

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The IEE Mentoring Service

• Wishes you the best of luck in realising YOUR
  future
• But dont just rely on luck,
• Give luck a chance to work
• via your network
• and via your mentors
• The End