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plan ahead and ensure you organise your work priorities to make contact with your mentees send and email articles and information of interest to your mentees actively encourage your mentees to participate in suitable courses, workshops and other career development initiatives actively support your mentees to apply for appropriate jobs encourage your mentees to consider different perspectives on work provide opportunities for self-reflection be aware of the culture of the agencies where the mentees are working if acting as an advocate on behalf of a mentee, be sure to get the perspectives from the key parties involved challenge others’ perceptions of cultural beliefs involve and support the mentees’ managers when dealing with workplace issues, deal with the person on a one-to-one level. Foster collaborative problem solving, decisionmaking, team work and cultural awareness. Benefits gained from informal mentoring As a mentor, the Principal Project Manager has greatly increased and enhanced her interpersonal communication skills, particularly in providing frank advice. She has also liaised with individual mentees’ managers to enhance their understanding of cultural issues. Gains reported by people being mentored by her are an increase in skills, knowledge and self-confidence, better work and family balance, higher job satisfaction, better understanding of the Public Sector work environment, better perception of career prospects and opportunities to discuss career planning in a supportive environment. 34 MENTORING MADE EASY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE
Advice to others If you are going to act as a person’s mentor you need to take this commitment seriously as it will take time and should remain an ongoing priority. When mentoring people from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background it may be necessary to mediate differing insights from other work colleagues. When dealing with people, be constructive and specific. Ask questions and help them to shift their understanding of Aboriginal cultures and ways of doing business. MENTORING MADE EASY: A PRACTICAL GUIDE 35
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Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Introduction..............
Page 5 and 6: WHAT IS MENTORING? Mentoring is a r
Page 7 and 8: mentoring benefits all concerned
Page 9 and 10: encourages different perspectives a
Page 11 and 12: STEPS TO A SUCCESSFUL MENTORING PRO
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Page 15 and 16: the specific needs of mentees and t
Page 17 and 18: MENTORING AGREEMENT We are voluntar
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Page 21 and 22: ROLES AND ATTRIBUTES OF THE MENTEE
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Page 25 and 26: Mentors can value and learn from ot
Page 27 and 28: PEER MENTORING In small and isolate
Page 29 and 30: CASE STUDIES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONM
Page 31 and 32: ATTORNEY GENERAL´S DEPARTMENT The
Page 33: NSW PREMIER’S DEPARTMENT Principa
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