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Positive Effects of Mentoring

Published on 10/17/2019

Positive Effects of Mentoring

In a Harvard Business Review article, “Stressed at Work? Mentoring a Colleague Could Help,” Michael Gill (University of Oxford) and Thomas Roulet (University of Cambridge) explain the findings of research in mentoring programs for police forces in England and Wales.   Their experiment showed that people who served as mentors “experienced lower levels of anxiety and described their job as more meaningful, than those who did not mentor.” Mentors and mentees realized that they had common pressures and mentors felt that they were able to do something important for someone.

 

In AISH and AAIE’s joint Mentor and Coaching program, mentors similarly express that they enjoy the personal connection and collegiality that evolves from the conversations between two International School Heads.  Mentees express gratitude and relate that, “His contextual knowledge of my situation was extremely helpful,” “I was able to reach out as needed to have important conversations,” and “There are a lot of unknowns and firsts moving into a headship and having my mentor available provided a sense of security.”  Forty-eight Heads of International Schools responded to our latest request to be a coach or mentor, indicating a remarkable and laudatory desire of experienced Heads to support their colleagues.

 

With so many willing mentors/coaches, we are now putting out an “all call” for people who would like to be matched with a leadership coach or mentor for the school year.  The program is free for AISH and AAIE members and one need not be a new Head of School to put in a request.  In fact, several of the experienced Heads who volunteered to coach have also requested one for themselves. For information, write debwelch@academyish.org.

 

Link to the article:

https://hbr.org/2019/03/stressed-at-work-mentoring-a-colleague-could-help