1. Performance Coaching:
Mentoring

2. Benefits of Mentoring

3. Organizational Benefits
• Emphasizes the importance of teamwork in overall
professional success

4. Organizational Benefits
• Emphasizes the importance of teamwork in overall
professional success
• Improves communication between managers and
employees

5. Organizational Benefits
• Emphasizes the importance of teamwork in overall
professional success
• Improves communication between managers and
employees
• Rekindles managers’ passions for their careers

6. Organizational Benefits
• Emphasizes the importance of teamwork in overall
professional success
• Improves communication between managers and
employees
• Rekindles managers’ passions for their careers
• Improves strategic and succession planning

7. Individual Benefits
• Improves your interpersonal skills

8. Individual Benefits
• Improves your interpersonal skills
• Enhances your status in the organization

9. Individual Benefits
• Improves your interpersonal skills
• Enhances your status in the organization
• Advances your career

10. Individual Benefits
• Improves your interpersonal skills
• Enhances your status in the organization
• Advances your career
• Increases your motivation and enthusiasm toward
your career

11. Individual Benefits
• Improves your interpersonal skills
• Enhances your status in the organization
• Advances your career
• Increases your motivation and enthusiasm toward
your career
• Helps you influence the mission and direction of the
organization

12. Mentor Qualifications

13. Mentor Qualifications
• Excellent interpersonal skills

14. Mentor Qualifications
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Extensive knowledge of your organization

15. Mentor Qualifications
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Extensive knowledge of your organization
• Technical competence to help employees overcome
deficiencies

16. Mentor Qualifications
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Extensive knowledge of your organization
• Technical competence to help employees overcome
deficiencies
• Charisma

17. Mentor Qualifications
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Extensive knowledge of your organization
• Technical competence to help employees overcome
deficiencies
• Charisma
• Credibility

18. Mentor Qualifications
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Extensive knowledge of your organization
• Technical competence to help employees overcome
deficiencies
• Charisma
• Credibility
• Responsibility for someone else’s growth and
development

19. Mentoring Activities

20. Mentor Activities
• Serving as a confidant in times of personal and professional
problems

21. Mentor Activities
• Serving as a confidant in times of personal and professional
problems
• Providing feedback on observed performance

22. Mentor Activities
• Serving as a confidant in times of personal and professional
problems
• Providing feedback on observed performance
• Providing information about the mission, goals and
strategic direction of the organization

23. Mentor Activities
• Serving as a confidant in times of personal and professional
problems
• Providing feedback on observed performance
• Providing information about the mission, goals and
strategic direction of the organization
• Developing employees’ political awareness and savvy

24. Mentor Activities
• Providing employees with insights into the
organizational philosophy

25. Mentor Activities
• Providing employees with insights into the
organizational philosophy
• Teaching employees how to function within the
organization

26. Mentor Activities
• Providing employees with insights into the
organizational philosophy
• Teaching employees how to function within the
organization
• Helping employees with long-term career planning

27. Mentor Activities
• Providing employees with insights into the
organizational philosophy
• Teaching employees how to function within the
organization
• Helping employees with long-term career planning
• Advocating for growth opportunities

28. Mentor Activities
• Providing employees with insights into the
organizational philosophy
• Teaching employees how to function within the
organization
• Helping employees with long-term career planning
• Advocating for growth opportunities
• Encouraging risk taking

29. Mentor Activities
• Providing advancement opportunities

30. Mentor Activities
• Providing advancement opportunities
• Encouraging involvement in visible projects and
programs

31. Mentor Activities
• Providing advancement opportunities
• Encouraging involvement in visible projects and
programs
• Serving as an honest, open and direct adviser

32. Employee Activities
• Assuming responsibility for their own growth and
development

33. Employee Activities
• Assuming responsibility for their own growth and
development
• Assessing their potential for success within the
organization

34. Employee Activities
• Assuming responsibility for their own growth and
development
• Assessing their potential for success within the
organization
• Being receptive to positive and negative feedback

35. Employee Activities
• Assuming responsibility for their own growth and
development
• Assessing their potential for success within the
organization
• Being receptive to positive and negative feedback
• Accepting challenging assignments

36. Employee Activities
• Sharing personal information with their superior

37. Employee Activities
• Sharing personal information with their superior
• Accepting suggestions and advice from another
person

38. Employee Activities
• Sharing personal information with their superior
• Accepting suggestions and advice from another
person
• Relinquishing some control over their career path

39. Employee Activities
• Sharing personal information with their superior
• Accepting suggestions and advice from another
person
• Relinquishing some control over their career path
• Trusting the suggestions of others

40. Mentoring Steps

41. Mentoring Steps
• Create a Network

42. Create a Network
Provide your employees with access to your network for a
diverse perspective of the organization.

43. Mentoring Steps
• Create a Network
• Allow Freedom

44. Allow Freedom
Help your employees select a mentor who will challenge
them.

45. Mentoring Steps
• Create a Network
• Allow Freedom
• Invest Your Time Wisely

46. Invest Your Time Wisely
Invest your time in employees who are willing to assume
responsibility for their own growth and development, are
receptive to feedback, and are willing to accept
suggestions and advice.

47. Mentoring Steps
• Create a Network
• Allow Freedom
• Invest Your Time Wisely
• Give It Away to Get It

48. Give It Away To Get It
Allow employees to know you’ve experienced failure, rather
than just accomplishments.

49. Mentoring Steps
• Create a Network
• Allow Freedom
• Invest Your Time Wisely
• Give It Away to Get It
• Develop Patience

50. Develop Patience
Develop your mentoring relationship slowly and base it
on self-esteeming principles.

51. Mentoring Steps
• Create a Network
• Allow Freedom
• Invest Your Time Wisely
• Give It Away to Get It
• Develop Patience
• Use Active Listening to Enhance Mentoring
Relationships

52. Use Active Listening
Listen to your employees’ needs.

53. Mentoring Steps
• Have Chemistry

54. Have Chemistry
Develop a deep connection between you and the
employee you’re mentoring.

55. Mentoring Steps
• Have Chemistry
• Formally Establish a Mentoring Relationship

56. Formally Establish Mentoring Relationship
Create a development plan with each employee that will
serve as a contract between you and the employee.

57. Mentoring Steps
• Have Chemistry
• Formally Establish a Mentoring Relationship
• Establish Relationship Boundaries

58. Establish Relationship Boundaries
Set boundaries to develop trust and honesty, as well as to
establish what is inappropriate.

59. Mentoring Steps
• Have Chemistry
• Formally Establish a Mentoring Relationship
• Establish Relationship Boundaries
• Create Relationship Reciprocity

60. Create Relationship Reciprocity
Make sure your mentoring relationship is two-way in
order for both of you to benefit and learn from each
other.

61. Mentoring Steps
• Have Chemistry
• Formally Establish a Mentoring Relationship
• Establish Relationship Boundaries
• Create Relationship Reciprocity
• Develop Synergy

62. Develop Synergy
Develop synergy and create reciprocal self-esteem.

63. Performance Coaching:
Mentoring