As a Mentor, you will be paired with a Mentee who can learn and benefit from your skills and experience. A Mentor is there to support the development of the Mentee.
What is the role of a Mentor?
  • Hold regular interactions and conversations. Communicate in a structured way every 4-6 weeks for a total period of 6 months.
  • Help the Mentee identify short and long term goals and help guide their progress.
  • Offer the Mentee feedback, advice and coaching for different scenarios and experience sharing.
  • Listen to the Mentee through questioning and active listening.
What does it take to be a great Mentor?
Leadership Behaviours: Great Mentors must consistently demonstrate leadership, must create trust,openness, confidentiality and psychological safety.
Will & Enthusiasm: Great Mentors take the commitment seriously, are willing to give time to the program and view Mentoring as part of their own personal development.
Knowledge & Experience: Great Mentors have experience and knowledge that will benefit a Mentee.
Do’s and Don’ts for Mentorship
DO
  • Commit to one interaction/hour of support per month.
  • Take responsibility to initiate the relationship.
  • Set aside time for the Mentoring process and honour all appointments.
  • Invite the Mentee to meetings or activities, when possible. Schedule meetings with planned topics.
  • Be flexible on meeting times and places.
  • Arrange frequent points of contact through telephone, email, zoom, face-to-face as appropriate.
  • Respond to emails from your Mentee within 2 days.
  • Keep shared information confidential and discuss things of concern within the Mentoring relationship.
  • Establish open and honest communication and a forum for idea exchange.
  • Foster creativity and independence. Help build self-confidence and offer encouragement.
  • Provide honest and timely feedback to your Mentee.
  • Provide opportunities to discuss concerns and questions.
  • Above all, listen.
DON'T
  • Try to give advice on everything.
  • Encourage Mentee to be totally dependent upon you.
  • Provide your personal history, problems, animosities, successes, failures, etc unless they are constructive contributions.
  • Ignore a request when the Mentee needs your support. Give the Mentee a heads up, so they know they can reachout to you and set up a time.
  • Above all, don’t criticize.
Frequently Asked Questions
What am I expected to do? Mentors are expected to provide approx. one hour of support and interaction with their Mentee per month. Interaction can take place via email, web-related tools, or face-to-face as appropriate. Mentors should work with their Mentee to determine the kinds of support that will be most useful. i.e. feedback related to career growth, courses and training pathways, technical information, personal development, leadership skills etc.
How long will the commitment be? We ask our Mentors to make a 6 month commitment to ensure that the Mentee is able to fully benefit from the relationship. If a Mentor must leave the relationship early, we request one month’s notice in order to identify a replacement Mentor with similar background.
Are there any potential risks to me or my company? No. It is not appropriate for Mentors to engage in any business transactions with their Mentees. The relationship should only involve the flow of general information and advice.
The relationship is not going well or I am concerned about Mentorship. What to do? We encourage an open dialogue which includes letting the Mentee know. Following that the Program administrator should be contacted immediately. We will provide our full support to resolve the situation in a positive and satisfactory manner.
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