Monday, October 20, 2008
Mentorship and experience
Should a mentor be experienced and a senior always? i have been attacked by this question by many of my colleagues - especially the less experienced ones and i have wondered why? maybe there is a beautiful aura in just " being a mentor" the feel and the experiences it can create for mentees. Coming back to the question, i am not only totally confused but remain unconvinced yet. By the definition of a mentor, yes, he/she is a mentor since he/she is knowledge intense. Can we relook at the definition? am mulling over... Do less experienced people not have relevant experience, maybe they have an entirely new set of experiences from which we could seek to learn. Its all in the mind anyway? am not going further on this today....
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From the experiences one goes through within the first two decades of one's life especially with various factors and information being available in abundance(or overload:))contributing to one's exposure. Experience becomes a some total of the many exposures one has...Being a relatively younger mentor I havent been under stress or discomfirt in my association and engagement. Being open, communicative and honest more than one's chronological age will help build collective experience which help both the mentor and metee experience and grow. Since there are no rigt or wrong answers, and situations dominate one's choices it's important to find meaning and purpose in the responsibility one takes up either as a mentor or mentee :)irrespective of what is accepted as norm...
Hey Kaaya, Good to see you back. I truly appreciate your honest responses each time. Keep writing. Am loving it
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