Mentoring
Mission
The objective of the CIO Network Mentoring Service is to provide
managers in member organizations access to invaluable peer
experience to assist in addressing business, management and
leadership challenges.
Benefits to Member Organizations
- Increase in morale and motivation
- Greater productivity
- Enhancement of leadership and people management skills
of managers
- Re-energize managers
- Development of inter-organizational networks
- Improve staff retention
Benefits to Mentors
- Renewed enthusiasm for their role
- Higher level recognition of their worth and skills by taking on a mentoring role
- Challenging discussions with people who have fresh perspectives and who are not already part of the organisational thinking
- Satisfaction from contributing to the protégé's development
- Opportunities to reflect upon and articulate their role
- Develop deeper awareness of their own behaviour
- Improved inter-personal skills in counselling, listening, modelling and leading
- Improved ability to share experience and knowledge
Benefits to Protégés
- Increased skills and knowledge
- Increased potential for career mobility and promotion
- Improved understanding of their roles in the organisation
- Insights into the culture and unwritten rules of the organisation
- A supportive environment in which successes and failures can be evaluated in a non-confrontational manner
- Smoother transition through management levels
- A powerful learning tool to acquire competencies and professional experience
- Potential for increased visibility
- Networking opportunities
- Development of professional skills and self-confidence
- Recognition and satisfaction
- Empowerment
- Encourages different perspectives and attitudes to one’s work
- Develops greater appreciation of the complexities of decision-making within the organisational framework.
Why Become A Mentor? - Article in Computerworld "Mentoring is a Two Way Street"
To enroll as a mentor or for additional details on the mentoring process, please email
customerservice@cionetwork.com.au. |
