What led you to mentor or coach others?
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Being a mentor gives me the opportunity to network with younger generations, and understand their way of working and thought processes and also it helps me to grow networks.
Mentorship also gives me a feeling of fulfilment and recognised as a leader.
It's also one way to learn (self-paced continuous learning) and build strong relationships, finally mentoring produces better leaders which are the most important and the most satisfaction in life cycles.
I received valuable input from a mentor that helped me to reach my knoledge and let me achieve my goals. I participate in Tech community events, in which we try to tech and show new aspects and features of new technology. So in my job and outside of it, i try to share what i know to all people who need it too.
Varied experience within industry and across verticals makes me to mentor and coach others.
I received valuable input from a mentor that helped me to get to the next stage in my career. I would like to pay that forward.
It happened very naturally and organically for me. As a manager or leader you should always be coaching and mentoring the individuals on your team. Eventually you end up either being asked by individuals outside your team and/or company for mentoring and coaching. As noted below it is a great experience and you often learn just as much from your mentee.
I would like to mention that as much as coaching and mentoring is incredibly valuable sometimes Sponsorship is more important. Often what your really need is an introduction, or a recommendation, etc which in many cases can be more important for your career advancement. Don't be afraid to ask for actionable help and be sure to acknowledge should they not be open to the request that you ask why so it becomes a learning opportunity for you. And perhaps you need to cultivate other sponsors.