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Become a Mentor

Mentoring Requirements and Benefits

Requirements for Mentors. Mentors will have prior experience as mentors, with no less than 10 years’ experience and immersion in mentoring programs

They will have verifiable proof of leadership skills and capabilities in any field or area of expertise. They will demonstrate additional experience in social entrepreneurship, advocacy, and community mobilization. All these underlined qualities are to ensure that the mentors come with a range of diverse experience that cuts across sectors and industries.

MENTORING BENEFIT

Mentors and mentees benefit hugely from the mentoring process in very diverse and overlapping ways. However, the greatest beneficiary of a mentoring process is society at large. The congruency of goals and the collective outcome of a mentoring process has a trickle-down effect that will go on to greatly benefit families, friends, colleagues, neighbors, acquaintances, clients, customers, and anybody within the sphere of control and under the influence of all participants in a mentoring cycle.

The feasibility and benefit inherent in mentoring are found in increased job and personal satisfaction. Incremental zest, passion, and positive stimuli. There is a visible increase in innovation and creativity.

A mentor often acts in the best and general interest of the mentee by providing expertise that leads to the following benefits for the mentor themselves.

THESE RESPONSIBILITIES CAN BE ACHIEVED USING THE FOLLOWING METHODS:

  • Accessing and evaluating the Mentees’ personality type.
  • Evaluating mentees’ previous work experience including failures and successes.
  • Avoiding every form of stereotyping.
  • Being warm, open, and approachable.
  • Being critical in judgment, but gentle in disposition.
  • Providing leveraging opportunities.
  • Motivating mentee and provide them positive reinforcement when needed.

BENEFITS OF THIS PROCESS TO THE MENTOR

  1. Reinforcement of knowledge, transfer of skills and expertise
  2. Increase in overall productivity
  3. Expansion of network and increase in social capital
  4. Personal fulfillment and goal validation
  5. Improvement in leadership capacity

MENTORS’ RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Onboarding the mentee.
  • Helping mentee with inputs on vision board design.
  • Supports mentee in the design and activation of mentee’s work and personal action plan.
  • Critical evaluation and assessment of inputs within the action plan such as deliverables, resources needed, budget and cost implication, timelines, and milestone achievements.
  • Helping mentees identify area of needs or struggles.
  • Attending Mentors’ events and relevant engagements of the Funmi Babington-Ashaye Mentors Programme and provide reasonable feedback on progress and limitations.
Become a mentor