Navigating future leadership roles – Tips for Mentors and Mentees!

An organisation’s talent pool takes similarity to that of a royal kingdom. When the right time comes for one ruler to step down, the next in command is usually groomed and ready to take the place. In the context of a work environment, when a management level member is getting closer to a retirement age, or decides to leave they encourage that they pursue and mentor a potential leadership role take over the position when the time comes. Now the organisational norm is much different to that of a kingdom, where the next in line is air to the throne and groomed from childhood, whereas at an organisational level, it involves mostly the performance levels that determines ones suitability to reach the next level. When you look at it from a distance mentoring simply feels like a ‘follow me around’, where the chosen employee simply gets to know the details involved in the role. Well there’s more to it than just a look into the life of a manager, during the process, the individual goes through extensive grooming to learn the responsibilities and challenges that comes with the job. Then comes the hardest part of guiding one’s own self to find the leader within. Here is a guide for the mentor and mentee.
Mentee:
Leadership is a journey of which many realize their true identity and the traits and values that makes one stand out of a crowd. Being selected is a great achievement alone but navigating towards finding the true purpose and calling becomes a challenge. The work load gets heavier and most often the breaking point becomes closer than victory. Which is when guidance feels much needed, although guidance does not mean babysitting. Finding the right sense of direction becomes a tough one when it comes to a significant decision that has it fair share of positive and negative. There are many options to which leadership roles turn to for help, some of which are technological tools that aid them to make the right call. Analytical dashboards provide an info graphical view of the organisations crucial information in a way that ease the decision making process. This is much better than simply looking at a sheet with a bunch of number that make no sense at stressful situations. PeoplesHR provides attractive and information rich charts that take away that hassle of looking through multiple documents that not only cloud judgment calls but also confuses the mind off clear direction.
Mentor:
To those confused and stressed doe eyed newbies that walk through your door seeking guidance, help can come in many different forms. It is not just professional guidance they seek, but also moral support to get through the dream that is slowly turning into a nightmare. This is an addition to your schedule and it can become bit of headache although the experience can give you more than you think. This is a trip down memory lane to reminisce the good times that you went through when you were there and a refresher to hear new perspective of someone new. Feedback can be constructive criticism or even praises that will help shape the individual’s career completely. Although feedback often tends to be forgotten or missed amongst tasks of a busy day. Keeping a manual record may not always be the most practical choice. Which is when a HRIS comes more in handy to keep it all intact in one place. With PeoplesHR you can simply track KPI’s and even add feedback into a critical incident journal that will record all important points that require attention during performance appraisals. If you mentor multiple candidates, use the common critical incident journal to track all the necessary feedback along the way.
Leadership comes with many different challenges, some that can be handled with a logical explanation and some that resolve over time, with experience. To which assistance is required to lift that extra step of work that takes up time unnecessarily. In a world where there is an application to help you with everything, PeoplesHR is a HRIS that can help you stay on top of the game every step of the way.
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