Essays on Mentor

Mentoring provides critical guidance to a young person on his or her path to success. Mentoring is to support and encourage people to make their own learning in order that they boost their potential, develop their skills, improve their performance and become the person they...

Mentoring enhances your professional life as well as your mentee. To be successful in any field, aspiring contracting specialists require role models and guidance. This is especially true in government acquisition as increasing number of acquisition team members’ turnover or at times work out of...

Life consists of various journeys and adventures that all share a similar foundational trait: a mentor. It is the mentor, whether it be a friend, family figure, or boss that provides you with the opportunity to recognize your skills and potential. In order to successfully...

In this essay, we are going to bring out the contrast that exists between the concepts of coaching and mentoring. To begin with, a coach is an expert of a given field who might be hired by an individual or an institution to in order...

Mentor is an accomplished senior guide who recognizes the academic and proficient requirements of a lesser individual while helping the person in question seek after the chances and encounters to meet them. Mentee is the person in the job of ‘leaner’ in the coaching relationship....

When left alone and allowed to do things their own way, people do not accomplish as much as they would if they had intelligent mentors. Individuals need teachers to guide them in the correct paths to success. This was demonstrated in the American Revolution when...

Job occupations and professions in the United States have a deep history of embedded segregation. Until the 1970s, the term “segregation” suggested the separation of the races, but the concept itself has evolved to encompass more than just racial segregation but physical separation by sex....

Diversity is an important aspect of workforce management in any organisation, healthcare inclusive. Lack of adequate diversity among the workforce in a healthcare facility is a cause for declining number of patients. The leadership in such establishment bears a huge responsibility in reversing the trend...

As I revisit my past a decade ago, I realized I didn’t have a proper mentor to guide me as a mentee. I learnt on my own, using trial and error. Through my journey, I see myself as a mentor, guiding and sharing my expertise...

Young professionals in the accounting and finance industry often begin their careers lacking real-world experience. “There was very little business experience in my family,” says Kari Natale, Director of Planning & Governance for the Illinois CPA Society and Director of the CPA Endowment Fund of...

The 2011 Hollywood film ‘Warrior’ is an inspirational story of two estranged brothers, Tommy and Brendan. The two brothers take part in a Mixed Martial Arts championship in order to win the prize money to support their families (Phillips, 2011). Since the two brothers were...

Engaged pedagogy, the call for student voice in liberatory education, is a needed focus of progressive educational institutions for the sake of individuality and providing a path of enlightenment for students. Presumably speaking, I believe it is safe to state that most students, at one...

At one point or another, whether in a personal or a professional setting, most people have had a mentor. Despite the benefits that mentoring can bring to individuals and organizations alike, it is an underused and undervalued development tool. As a result, there are limited...

Mentors is an abstract sculpture located in the center of the Luria-Towbes Fountain Plaza at Santa Barbara City College. Aristides Burton Demetrios In 2002 won the “Santa Barbara Beautiful Award” for the most beautiful work of public art for the sculpture, the bronze fountain “Mentors”,...