Employee mentoring

Employee mentoring

You probably know about employee induction programs and may even be familiar with employee orientation and probation. However, looking back, do you wish someone had told you how to make the best use of the benefits employment provided you? You may have done better along your career if you had someone mentor you on how to get the best out of a job.

Most employers will provide on-the-job training and engage staff on skills development programs to ensure that employees become productive as quickly as possible. This provides employees with confidence and competence to do their jobs well. However, forward looking employees will also take personal initiative to ensure that they develop the skills they will need in future to remain relevant, employable and accumulate wealth in the years ahead. This requires effective personal development planning.

Employee mentoring helps staff achieve career milestones alongside meaningful personal development goals. For example, while employers faithfully pay staff a salary to meet their living expenses, mentoring might go further and help employees investigate how best to use their pay to improve their quality of life and make wise investments for the years ahead. Employers are not obliged to give this kind of counsel to employees or teach them How ToProsper on the job, but successful and socially responsible employees take the initiative to develop themselves and mentor those around them to improve themselves as well.