Two fold impact of Mentoring

Today, i wondered as to how mentoring can impact individuals and specifically employees. Primarily, this can happen at two macro levels:

1. At an intellectual level
2. At an emotional level

Considering that "the intellect is the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge" , mentoring can have a huge impact. In fact, mentoring is an intellectually empowering process. Mentoring enables the mentor and the mentee to reflect and refine their intellectual capability through the constant process of learning.

At an emotional level, mentoring helps us to separate "affect" from"effect" and helps us to separate feelings from thoughts.

In the organizational context, knowing and relating to the difference between "affect" and "effect" can truly create a mature class of employees who are emotionally empowered.

There could be several benefits for an organization to have intellectually and emotionally empowered employees. It can result in very effective interpersonal relationships among teams. It can move the organization to a level of intellectual competence which can be a distinguishing factor in the competitive world.

I know i can go on but wish to leave my thoughts here until my next blog...