Organization

• Facilitate the alignment of staff and organizational needs and mission
• Orient staff new to the profession or new to the organization
• Increase job satisfaction
• Create a learning organization where skills and knowledge are shared and enhanced, making best use of talents in the organization
• Help staff in planning, developing, and managing their careers
• Encourage the development of leadership and management competencies, increase readiness for more responsibility
• Actively address issues of recruitment, retention and succession planning
• Increase minority employee representation in key positions, and support greater diversity
• Encourage cross-departmental and cross-system learning and network development
• Increase workforce flexibility, address changing needs and roles
• Support management through these changes

Mentor

• Gain new insights and perspectives
• Increase job satisfaction
• Increase peer recognition
• Develop and improve communication skills
• Share expertise and experiences to benefit others
• Incentive to stay current
• Have a greater understanding of the changing skill set being brought into the profession

Mentee

• Clarify personal vision for career
• Come to recognize barriers to performance
• Overcome barriers
• Get support in developing career objectives
• Develop new skills
• Greater job satisfaction
• Have non-threatening opportunity to ask questions about organization and profession
• Improve communication, negotiation, decision-making and self-assessment skills
• Have increased opportunities for networking
• Experience benefits of learning organization
  

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