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Mentors Train Proteges in Business |
| Russell Udelhofen | 07.03.2006 | Any/All Industries | Career Choices |
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 Everyone needs mentors to help guide them through the challenges of life. In the business world today, it can be difficult to find mentors to help people develop their skills. Young business people are protégés who need to train under the direction of a skilled craftsman (mentor), honing their skills with the help and guidance of someone who has done what they want to do.
There aren’t enough skilled craftsmen around to work with all of the young protégés. In large companies, many middle and upper management personnel (the skilled craftsmen) have been let go in cost reduction efforts to avoid high salaries and fringe benefits. This leaves a void at companies where they used to have a pool of mentors available. In small companies, many times mentors don’t exist.
I feel compelled to do what I can to act as a mentor to help out less experienced young business people develop into successful leaders. As a mentor, my role is to:
• Provide a non-threatening sounding board
• Ask pertinent questions
• Make suggestions
• Stimulate ideas
• Teach a system for handling new challenges not yet experienced
• Develop tools for making good business decisions
As the relationship between the mentor and protégé develops, the opportunity exists for the candidate to develop into a successful business leader and mentor in their company and their community.
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