We’ve been hearing a lot about the death of traditional mentoring lately. To paraphrase Mark Twain, we believe the reports of mentoring’s “death” have been greatly exaggerated.
Here’s the thing: mentoring, at its core, is a humble philosophy. Simply put, mentoring involves nurturing and encouraging another person in a way that allows the person to transform and grow in order to reach his or her full potential.
Mentoring has taken place since the beginning of time. (The word “mentor” comes from Greek mythology.) And it will continue long after everyone reading this newsletter is gone.
What will change is the way we mentor, as it has, and as it should. But the concept of mentoring is one that will continue to endure. And that’s a good thing.
This year marks a milestone for mentors. Does mentoring look the same as it did in 1989? Of course not. Think about that time: email access wasn’t widespread. Google and Facebook didn’t exist. From an education perspective, mentors couldn’t offer intellectual guidance or transformative experience to have edge over the others.
As times and technology have changed, so have the ways we’ve approached mentoring (and everything else in life). Millennials are just about all grown up and entering the workforce. At Menticlub, we have several mentors from top-B schools currently studying, who had walked the path, and we help mentee’s to get the right mentors from our mentoring platform that will work for their needs and confusion.
We do feel confident in certain mentoring “truths,” like the following…
1. Mentoring is a Customizable Solution for us, choose your own date and time, with finest students around India.
2. Mentoring doesn’t happen only once in a person’s life. If we’re lucky, we’re constantly being mentored and mentoring others, both formally and informally.
3. Mentoring can happen from home to various people and places around the world, On Your Demand with any one. You need not bandwidth formal mentoring programs, because we have FREE TRIAL SESSION ONLY FOR YOU.
4. Yes, you can have More Than One Mentor at the same time, JUST BOOK MULTIPLE SESSIONS.
5. It is possible to have an enriching mentoring relationship through new media, like Skype, Facetime, Audio calls and text messages. We believe people need to be present (physically, ideally) in order to experience the important nuances of the “unspoken” and nonverbal gestures.
6. We hope you’ll stick around this year because we have lots of fun stuff planned. Our blog writers have some fun posts, Hot Topics for Group Discussions and Personal Interviews, current critics etc planned.
And, of course, we’ll continue to address the issues and challenges that face mentoring today, starting with Our Newsletter and Blogs.
In the meantime, we want to THANK those of you who’ve been with us, using our provided mentoring platform, as well as those who’ve joined us along the way.
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-Anushi Jain
