Question

its a discussion responding we are responding to. Does your organization have a formal mentoring program and/or leadership development program, explain Do you currently have a mentor or serve as a mentor, explain Discuss some goals that you can set for yourself to further develop as a leader.

Help responding in 150 or more words given details.

My organization has a mentoring program that partners up individuals wanting to move up in the company. We use Individual Development plans in order to guide training and development. This is a tool assists employees in career path and personal development. IDP’s are essential to being able to assign learning activities to specific competencies. We assign actionable tasks and track their progress in reasonable time frames. We also offer internships to college students in which they spend six weeks in leadership roles and provide them with the training and knowledge of how to become effective leaders. I am currently serving as a mentor to a new employee that has less experience. I allow individuals that I am mentoring to tell me what their expectations from me are. I also set up times for scheduled meetings to set goals, give and receive feedback, and find out what they may need from me. Goals that I could use in order to further develop myself as a leader by strategic thinking. “Improve my ability to see the big picture and take a longer range, broader business perspective. Learn to step back from the day-to-day tactical details of my business and focus on the “why”, not just the “what” and “how” (McCarthy, 2010). Looking at the big picture would guide me in becoming a more effective leader by being able to see what the importance of things is instead of just doing. Another goal would be to support and manage change in the organization because this would the transition of things easier during role outs of new programs or practices. There are many things one could do to become a better leader, but at the end of the day being sincere and honest is the best practice.

Answer 1

Mentoring programs are needed in organisations to help workers in reaching their potentials by realising some of their latent qualities in the presence of a leader or mentor. Thinking in this tracks, my organization keeps a program in which me and other mentors help the employees to do their work with ease and help to guide them out of their problems may it be work related or personal.

I have been working as a mentor for some time and I have understood one thing pretty well is that knowledge about being a leader is secondary to empathy. Through my experience I have learned that I need to have proper leadership skills such as being an active listener, interacting well with employees and understanding their problems. On the other hand, the most important potential which a leader must have is to let all employees participate in the total act and not be a autocratic leader who only believes in his own statements. Thus, according to me and my experiences, I can develop myself as a leader more by understanding the needs of the employees working under me. I must try to make a balance between the needs of the organisation and the needs of the employees. I think I can term myself as a good leader when I will be able to make the employees motivated in a way in which they will feel satisfied in working for the growth and development of the company and thus, the needs of both employees and organisation will be the same in this case.