The Importance of Mentoring

Leaders realize many benefits from mentoring, including personal satisfaction and fulfillment, enhanced creativity and professional synergy, career and personal rejuvenation, development of a loyal support base, and recognition for developing talent.

People who are mentored also gain many benefits: access to leadership opportunities, career mobility, better rewards, increased adaptability when facing new situations, improved professional identity, greater professional competence, increased career satisfaction, greater acceptance within their organizations, and decreased job stress and role conflict. Additionally, mentees enjoy some of the credibility and influence of the mentor through association.

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