What is mentoring?
Mentoring is a mutually beneficial relationship that involves a more experienced person helping a less experienced person achieve their goals.
Mentoring can increase:
- self esteem and confidence for individual employees
- the quality of professional relationships between employees
- productivity for the business.
How does mentoring help employers support an employee with disability?
An on going benefit of the mentoring process is a wider workplace understanding of the barriers faced by people with disability and an increased awareness of their abilities. It can help create disability confident organisations.
In many cases, the assumption that the employee with disability will be the one that benefits most from a mentoring arrangement is proved to be untrue as the following case study demonstrates:
Fact Sheets
The following fact sheets can be used to discuss the benefits of mentoring with employers and co-workers:
For employers:
For co-workers: