Mentoring other people is a great leadership skill to develop. Creating a mentoring culture within your workplace is an excellent way to develop a positive supportive team culture. Mentoring brings out the best in you, in leading your people and in developing a supportive motivated and confident organisation.
One additional significant positive outcome from mentoring is often a cascade effect where mentored leaders recognise that they are improving their leadership skills. That shift in culture may work throughout the organisation, not just at the leadership team level.
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Mentoring the people you lead, generates confidence, inspires trust and fast-tracks team development. It also gets leaders closer to the frontline of their business by breaking down vertical silo mentalities, which often exists within organisations.
For leaders, being prepared to mentor defines what sort of leader you want to be. Mentoring is at the heart of the most successful, respected and desired leadership styles. Richard Gourlay develops positive mentoring to support leaders deliver transformational leadership. Mentoring is also at the heart of servant leadership model which are often seen as the most effective mentoring cultures.
Effective Leadership Development
Effective leadership development depends upon leaders being able to inspire employees. At the heart of motivating employees is effective communication.
Mentoring leaders requires supporting leaders develop their existing skills in what and how they communicate. To lead you must have somewhere to lead people towards. A set of goals you can effectively define, and then communicate in a language which engages with your people and motivates them to deliver their roles successfully. Mentoring creates that space and time to review, plan and practice these skills.
Mentoring Creates a Culture of Trust & Engagement Throughout The Organisation
Another key skill leaders need to develop within their people is an open engagement culture, where ideas are cultivated throughout the organisation. Leaders do not have all the answers, but they should be able to ask the right questions! Learning that you do not have to be able to answer every challenge immediately and that is is all right to not know (yet) is an important element in developing yourself.
Creating an open engagement culture is where leaders encourage the whole team to positively openly discuss and work together. This actively encouraging all employees to share ideas in a positive conversation.
Mentoring creates and sustains better, stronger and more resilient teams. For leaders looking to reduce the pressure on themselves mentoring is a vital skill for themselves and others within their organisation. Leaders reduce pressure on themselves and their fellow senior people and to get the best out of their people by creating a mentoring culture. This seen as the most effective way to sustain a positive business culture.
Mentoring Culture
Mentoring cultures can reduce tension, friction and frustration by fostering an open, sharing and trusting culture.
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