Mentoring to Adulescents

Running Head : Mentoring to Adolescents

Mentoring to Adolescents

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The success of many adolescents in their careers can usually be tied back to others who influenced them . These adolescents frequently mention coaches who were particularly helpful as career developers . Many of these adolescents also mention others at high grades that given guidance and support to them in the development of their careers . These coach adviser , and supporting teachers called mentors

Results indicated most students had a mentor , and mentors were most helpful through role modeling , verbal

encouragement , personal support and providing career guidance . Gender differences were found on several outcome variables but were not detected based on sex or ethnic match , or the presence of a mentor ' Lisa Y . Flores , Ezemenari M . Obasi 2005

Generally , the mentor initiates the relationship , but sometimes adolescents will approach a potential mentor for advice

Most mentoring relationships develop over time on an informal basis However , in proactive organizations there is an emphasis on formal mentoring plans that call for the assignment of a mentor to those employees considered for upward movement in the organization . Under a good mentor , learning focuses on goals , opportunities , expectations standards , and assistance in fulfilling one 's potential (Starcevich and Friend , 1999 . Also Available at HYPERLINK "http /www .indiana .edu busx420 /Book-Excerpts /chap07 .doc http /www .indiana .edu busx420 /Book-Excerpts /chap07 .doc

Mentoring roles vary , according to need , from a vocational to an interpersonal focus

Vocational mentoring roles include : enhancing the subject 's skills and intellectual development helping to build up a set of educational values consulting to help the subject to elucidate goals and ways of implementing them helping to set up a set of personal and professional standards and networking and sponsoring by providing opportunities for the subject to meet other professionals . These roles help lately qualified teachers , new appointments , and those new to middle management or headships to adjust to changes in their career pattern and to advance within the profession

Interpersonal mentoring roles include : sharing role modeling and allowing the subject to get insight into how the mentor works in a professional capacity . A mentor must also encourage the subject to build his or her self-confidence by acknowledging successes . A mentor is also a counselor who listens to but does not tell the subject what to do . Not all mentors will fulfill all of these roles , but the more extensive the roles , the richer the relationship . These roles enable the subject to explain his or her identity and to develop professional confidence and self-esteem

Basically , mentoring is an idea and a practice that has progress eventually in different cultures and contexts . Natural mentoring occurs incidentally in a diversity of life settings through friendship teaching , coaching and counseling 'Planned ' mentoring involves structured programs with clear objectives , where mentors and mentees are matched using formal processes

It is unsurprising therefore , that today there is considerable confusion over its meaning . The essential elements of a mentoring relationship are

A recognizable procedure , formal or informal

A clear...