MENTORING

Mentorship - refers to a personal developmental relation ship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.

In other cases, mentoring is used to groom up-and-coming employees deemed to have the potential to move up into leadership roles. Here the employee (protégé) is paired with a senior level leader (or leaders) for a series of career-coaching interactions. A similar method of high-potential mentoring is to place the employee in a series of jobs in disparate areas of an organization, all for small periods of time, in anticipation of learning the organization's structure, culture, and methods. A mentor does not have to be a manager or supervisor to facilitate the process.


The concept of mentoring has entered the business domain as well. This is different from being a apprentice, a business mentor provides guidance to a business owner or an entrepreneur on the entrepreneur's business. An apprentice learns a trade by working on the job with the "employer". The experience of the mentor can help the mentee overcome hurdles in business easily, given that the mentor has faced similar situations in business himself.


Business professionals with a lot of experience and successful entrepreneurs are lending their time to help others in business.The word mentoring is being often used by organizations such at TiE, which help entrepreneurs start new ventures. Several venture capitalists also claim that they provide mentoring along with capital.


Mentor -   Mentor has been adopted in English as a term meaning a father-like teacher. 

Qualities of a good mentor:

1. Mentors create opportunities and open doors.

2. Mentors know your strengths and abilities. 

3. Mentors set an example. Sometimes it’s just a matter of 

watching your mentor in action—how he or she conducts a 

cruise as chief scientist, prepares a manuscript or presentation, or analyzes data.

4. Mentors want you to succeed and help you learn from your 

mistakes. They are not in competition with you. They don’t 

put up any roadblocks to success. 

. Mentors want you to become independent. The training 

you receive and the associations you build, often through 

your mentor, enable you to eventually function independently—whatever your ultimate career path. 

Work Teams Behavior:

Understanding Work Teams

Team work is “working in team”, Where group of individuals or members or employees are committed to end goal. With there is a common goals, teamwork is essential to success. Many Fortune 500 companies use project teams, which consist of employees from diverse managerial and good professional backgrounds, works for specific period of time on certain projects to produce output which is efficient. Members of show passion for the project and each contributes to its success.

 Skills which are necessary for good teamwork are:

* Respect for team members

* Patience

* Compromise

 * Polite but clear communication

 * No individual glory

 * Persuasive speech

The difference between work teams and work group:

Work Groups	Work Teams
1.Members have individual goals.	1.Members have common goals.
The primary motive of interaction is to share information and to take decisions, thereby helping each other to perform within his or her area of responsibility.	2.The primary motive of mutual interaction is to perform collectively.
2.Performance is nothing but the sum of  each individual’s contribution belonging to the group. Thus there is no positive synergy that would create the performance level greater than the sum of individual inputs.	3. The performance in a work team is greater than the group member’s individual inputs. The synergy is positive which aids the organization to have a performance level greater than the sum of individual inputs.
The responsibility is individual.	4. The responsibility is individual and mutual in nature.
5.The accountability is of individual nature.	5. The accountability is individual and mutual in nature.
6.The skills involved are random and varied. i.e. the skill of one individual does not complement the skills of other individuals.	6. The skills involved are complementary in nature i.e., the skill of one individual aids the other to use his skills to achieve the objective.
6. It has a strong and focused leader with clear objectives.	The leadership is shared among the team members.
8. The purpose of work group is same as that of the organization.	8.The purpose of a team is very specific requiring collective effort.
9. The work group’s products are individual work products.	9. A work team’s products are collective work products
10.The work group meetings are efficiently run.	10.The team meetings are open-ended and problem solving. Allowing every member to participate actively.
11.Effectiveness of performance is measured Indirectly, i.e. by measuring the performance of the organization (for instance, the financial performance of the organization). This is so because the purpose of work group and the organization are same.	11. Effectiveness of performance is measured directly by assessing the collective work product.
12. In a work group. Discussions are carried out, decisions are taken and workelegated	12. In a work team. Discussions. Decisions and real work, all are carried out together (by the members of the team).
13. Groups can be of any size.	13. Teams are needed to be small.

Team Behavior And Processes

Team Behavior and Processes

There are many important elements that effect how a learning team behaves and the processes that a learning team chooses to complete tasks and reach desired goals. The current learning team has established roles and responsibilities, time management skills, and decision making strategies that allow the team to work up to it's full potential. The learning team has maintained a level of trust and responsibility to one another that must exist in order for the team to remain successful 
Roles and Responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities for a learning team should be identified within the first meeting (Thompson, 2000). When roles and responsibilities are established, it opens up the lines of communication and eliminates the need for team members to question each other's motives. Roles and responsibilities can possibly change from week to week, depending on the circumstances.
  Within our learning team, we have established the criteria that we will rotate, on a weekly basis, the responsibility of formatting team papers within the APA guidelines and posting the papers to the assignments newsgroup. We have also established that we will post our individual sections of the team paper to the team newsgroup each Friday.   This will allow the weekly editor to review the input and make any changes as they see necessary. There are times, however, when this is not always the case. All team members currently work full time and have families. Situations do arise when we simply cannot fulfill our responsibilities. If this should occur, it is the other team member's responsibility in making sure that the appropriate actions are taken so that the team can continue to function.
Time Management
When working in a learning team environment, time management skills are a tool that each member must utilize. Each member must make the time to fulfill his or her obligations to the learning team.

Scope of 

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