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Mentoring is a powerful tool which, though
one-to-one action, can often have the biggest impact in transforming
lives. It can involvementors and mentees of virtually any
age, whether they be in schools and colleges or adults in
work. There
are so many personal stories of how a mentor or a friend
has helped someone out of difficult circumstances or given
them the guidance they need. One of the essential goals of
mentoring is to enhance the self-confidence and self esteem
of those individuals whose inner resilience may have been
diminished by their life circumstances. Mentoring can empower
individuals to become energised, more focused towards positive
actions and outcomes, and is a great motivational tool.
In
industry Mentoring based schemes could provide a cost-effective
way of addressing the UK's
skill shortage.
Here are a few famous mentors and mentees:
- Warren
Beatty mentor to Diane Keaton
- Mel
Gibson mentor to Heath Ledger
- Tom Sharpin mentor
to Russell Crowe
- Madonna
mentor to Gwyneth Paltrow
- Jonathan
Winters mentor to the comedian Robin Williams
- Richard
Burton mentor to Sir Anthony Hopkins
- Adam
Farrar mentor to Leonardo DiCaprio
- Johnny
Carson mentor to Garry Shandling and Jay Leno
Acumen can provide the expertise to set up a mentoring scheme
in your organisation, including the induction training for
mentors and mentees.
Click here to see mentoring
examples: www.thesaharaproject.org.uk
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