Facilitating Protégé Career Development through Skills of Mentors

Abstract

The success of protégé contribution in any organisation today depends more on the type of relationship that an orgnisation establishes with the support of mentors. Research shows that individuals who are mentored have an increased likelihood of career success as a result of the targeted developmental support they receive. Mentors serve as trusted and significant advisors, providing a sounding board for day-today issues encountered on the job and alternative perspectives on issues in terms of both problem identification and problem solving. Mentoring can take on different forms. There are many ways through which mentors can improve the effectiveness of mentoring process. Qualities of mentors, Roles of mentors and Mentoring methods which already have contributed for protégé career development. In this paper author is making an effort to assist human resource department on how in near future protégé career development can be spoken through the new skills of the Mentors. By practicing new skills mentors in organizations can facilitate healthy relationship between the levels of management and in turn try to achieve individual goals and organisational goals. In this piece instigator has made an exertion to bring out new skills effective mentors should contemplate upon to facilitate protégé career development.

Keywords: Counseling, Protégé, Career development, Self-Disclosure.