Approach this person and see if they can spare you 20-30 minutes to help you and briefly outline the problem in your ask.Research the community and find someone ‘Willing to Help’ who also has the skillset you need.don’t ask ‘How do I get a promotion?’ but ‘How can I gain the experience of managing someone to help me towards the promotion to manager?’ Understand why you want a mentor and be specific in your ask.Micro-Mentoring: Best Practice and Advice We also have our very own ‘Micro-Mentor Champions’. Micro-mentoring relationships can last anything from a few hours through to days or even weeks, and we’d encourage everyone to give this a try and seek advice within our community by using the ‘Willing to Help’ section on Charterhouse Connect. Equally, it is much easier to accept this kind of request for a few short meetings, without feeling as if you’ve over-committed.

It can also be a great first test to explore a relationship which then may grow into something resembling a more traditional mentoring partnership.įrom the perspective of the mentee it is much easier to approach someone to ask for two or three coffee catch-ups (of half an hour or so) than to ask someone ‘Will you mentor me?’.

It’s used in many companies and industries where individuals are time pressured, or have certain specific challenges they want to discuss, such as career progression, technical job expertise, client relationship management and so on. Micro-Mentoring reduces some of the pressures of mentoring by looking to create shorter relationships, and advising in smaller blocks of time. Here at Charterhouse we encourage the use of 'micro-mentoring' to start you on your mentoring journey and begin to harness the power and network of our vibrant community. With so many demands on our time, even with the very best intentions, it can be difficult to commit to a mentoring programme. The benefits are numerous and some are listed below: For the mentor: It can be an important and useful tool for self-development in the workplace and on a personal level. Mentoring is a two-way opportunity that benefits both parties.

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