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How Can a Mentor Help You?
Some ideas about how a mentor can be particularly helpful:
- Help during a transition, when facing decisions, analysing problems, sorting through options, setting goals, planning and implementing actions
- A guide in a new field, role or organisation
- A counsellor to encourage self-exploration, listen, question, provide feedback and build self-reliance
- A coach to share your goals, to help you acquire and practice skills, to motivate you with support and challenges and to sometimes be stern and tough but always on 'your team'
- A role-model to demonstrate desirable behaviours and attitudes
- Information or expertise beyond your current experience
- New challenges to revitalise or regain lost enthusiasm
- Vision to see possibilities and potential and to set new goals
- A critical friend to evaluate your performance or a piece of work and give you honest feedback
- Assistance in an unsupportive environment
If you are considering a career change or need career planning advice take the first step today. Contact Helen who is a professional careers counsellor and psychologist in Adelaide.