Become a Mentor
Your time and talent can make a real difference in people’s lives.
Mentoring can be an invaluable professional and personal resource for leaders at every age and career stage. To that end, ICO actively supports formal and informal mentoring activities in many ways. But frequently the benefits of mentoring are focused on the mentees. Based on feedback from leaders who have received mentoring, some of the greatest takeaways for mentees include improved self-awareness, introspective review of capabilities, unique opportunities to learn, personal development, identification of strengths and weakness and much more. But what do the mentors get out of these relationships?
While giving back to the profession by developing the next generation of leaders is a wonderful reason to take on a mentee, mentoring isn’t exclusively an altruistic pursuit. In fact, mentors can often get just as much out of these professional arrangements as the mentees.