Mentoring Basics
Why Mentoring?
Mentoring is used to acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to progress in your career. Good mentoring results in
- personal and career growth
- network building
- leadership development
- experiential learning
- knowledge exchange
- career development and skills exchange
Mentoring Principles
Mentoring has a few key principles that form the core of the relationship.
- The mentee is the driving force behind the mentoring relationship.
- Mentoring is based on a committment of trust and confidentiality between participants.
- The mentor and the mentee are mutually committed to a beneficial mentoring relationship.
Mentoring is a Win-Win Situation
Benefits to the mentor
- Builds professional network
- Enhances leadership skills
- Provides new perspectives and insights into problems and issues
Benefits to the mentee
- Builds professional network contacts
- Deepens the core knowledge of the profession
- Develops skills and expertise
- Receives career guidance
Benefits to the profession and the UPA
- Disciplined approach to developing and retaining usability professionals to further the profession
- Leverage experience and leadership of our senior members and practitioners
- Improve communications, encourage teaming, and enable knowledge transfer across the community