10 Awesome Reasons for Hiring a Mentor
No longer are professional career mentors just for the elite. In fact it’s actually considered a great strategy for anyone, especially for those wanting to get ahead much faster. It’s a bit like a personal trainer but for your work fitness – consistency, accountability and with an end goal. In fact, in the gender diversity space mentors for women are part of a recommended strategy to help keep women focused on career progression, “leaning in” and leadership pipelines.
In order to find a mentor, you could ask a senior person in your circle of influence to mentor you for free. Or in the absence of a senior person, you could pay for a mentor. Why not consider a combination of the both? And one of the big benefits of the paid mentor over a free mentor is that the paid mentor’s first priority is you.
So to help you make your mind up about whether or not Ambition Revolution mentoring is for you here are my top 10 reasons why you could and should have a mentor.
1. You’ll end up working on a program tailored to suit your exact requirements. Your program will be a combination of practical, tactical and strategic – blending long term goals with short term strategies and vice versa.
5. You have someone to keep you confident and feeling self assured. Did you know that when it comes to success, confidence correlates at least as closely to confidence as competence?
“Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence.”— Katty Kay & Claire Shipman
Want to know more about that? Read Katty Kay and Claire Shipman’s telling article in the Atlantic The Confidence Gap
6. Your commitment is only one hour per fortnight – with tactical, specific homework on your career strategy between sessions (not some random case study).
7. You’ll have someone to help you focus. As you’ve probably heard about with recent research into the flow state – there is an amazing correlation between flow, focus and results and a quite telling inverse correlation between focus and effort. So here’s the thing. When focus increases? Perceived effort seems to fall. You find yourself in the zone and work becomes more meaningful and you become happier. Want to learn more about flow? Check out Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s TED talk
8. Wisdom and guidance from someone who has been there or at the very least has other clients working through the same issues.
9. You’ll feel like you are growing and developing even though the focus is on your work. Work on your career will have never felt so much like fun!
10. You’ll feel like you have more time left in your week to focus on all the other things that are also important – friends, family and wellness. We’ve all heard that old maxim that when we are lying on our death bed we’re not going to say “I wish I spent more time at the office”.
Curious? I’ve been having fun again with technology. Check out my latest video on the benefits of mentoring!
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