Developing the mentor/mentee relationship

Following on from my last post, Julie Osborn, Michael Peile, Jill Hetherington and I finally got to meet our mentees yesterday at the student induction day at Richard Rose Academy.

Our aim as a mentor is to help and develop the mentees succeed in their careers through working together to set short and long term goals that will hopefully lead to life-long success – however I don’t think it’s going to be all one way and I’m sure we as mentors will all learn things about ourselves over the next 18 months that will help us to develop our own goals.

Yesterday, we started off with some random ice breaker questions that gave us an insight into them as individuals, into what drives them and what they hope to achieve with our help and it was great to see that they were all extremely positive and enthusiastic about the journey ahead.

For me personally, I can’t wait to get started – my mentee has already joined our David Allen football team and I am really looking forward to integrating him and our other mentees into the David Allen group. Overall there are 44 students involved in the project, each with their own mentor.

At David Allen we strive to provide the best possible experience for our mentees and hope that the relationships that we develop turn into valuable friendships.

Kirstie Somerville