"Equipping and Empowering" the Mentee (Protege) is a very important dynamic that (sadly) is frequently missing in the Mentoring relationships we've seen over the years. While we feel that the Mentee is ultimately responsible to initiate moving forward in the relationship, the Mentor can add great value by finding an appropriate balance between these two positions - "Equipping and Empowering".
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| Dr. William A. Gray |
We've enjoyed getting to know and work on projects with Dr. William Gray from British Columbia (Canada). The following comments were originally shared in our post of May 24, 2016 and in an accompanying YouTube Video where he further discusses aspects of "Equipping" and "Empowering" Mentees with the use of his Mentoring Style Indicator (MSI) tool. Thank you Dr. Gray for your contributions to the building and maintaining of healthy mentoring relationships!
Why Mentoring Style Flexibility is Essential
By Dr. William A. Gray
President, Mentoring Solutions
Researchers of mentoring agree that the mentoring relationship between mentors and their protégés is the key to successful mentoring and achieving desired goals. If you cannot work well with your partner, you stop meeting and no goals are attained. I also discovered this and then created the Mentoring Style Indicator (MSI) in the early 1980s as a tool for training mentoring partners. Mentors learn to use two Mentoring Styles to equip protégés like the dictionary definition or classical concept describes – passing on knowledge, wisdom and practical know-how. Mentors also learn to use two other Mentoring Styles to empower what protégés want to learn, do and become. During Partner Training, proteges learn to be receptive to these different kinds of assistance – and to request appropriate assistance when needed. Employing such Mentoring Style Flexibility has helped over 100,000 mentoring partners to develop a good working relationship that achieves desired outcomes. If inflexibility occurs, mentoring relationships fall apart and goals are not achieved.
* Thank you once again Dr. Gray for sharing your insights. For the convenience of our readers, URL links can be found for the following related resources:
- The Provision Mentorship BLOG post from May 24, 2016 at: CLICK HERE
- The Youtube Video with related comments from Dr. Gray at: CLICK HERE
PLEASE feel free to share your comments to our post.
We'd be very pleased to hear from you and let others benefit from comments related to your experiences for improving Mentoring Relationships.
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