Mentoring and Supervision are closely related managerial tasks identify their similarities and differences?
October 26th, 2007 Posted in Mentoring
akilasa asked:
Please i need some help on the subject above its assignment in Diploma level I have got no idea how to start and where to end im stuck!!
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Please i need some help on the subject above its assignment in Diploma level I have got no idea how to start and where to end im stuck!!
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5 Responses to “Mentoring and Supervision are closely related managerial tasks identify their similarities and differences?”
By Jon B on Oct 28, 2007
Mentoring someone is about teaching them what you know and helping to coach and develop their skills. (Creating a mini-me)
By lovethesun on Oct 30, 2007
Mentoring is more hands on -
EG ,
taking someone under your wing
Teaching them what you know
Helping them learn new tasks
Supervising is less envolved, but not completely removed.
EG
letting them get on with it themselves
Letting them learn from their own mistakes
Does that give you any ideas to go on?
By Caro on Nov 2, 2007
Mentoring is helping someone to learn & develop skills – you share what you know, lead by example. Supervising is watching over somebody &/or their work. You might not be expected to help them or to have any input, just to oversee them. In a work situation a newcomer might be assigned to a mentor for training; both the mentor & trainee might be supervised by somebody else. They are the differences. Similarities are that in both cases somebody is being monitored; they aren’t being left entirely to their own devices. A mentor can be a supervisor & a supervisor can be a mentor – often the 2 roles are combined. Hope this helps.
By Janice E on Nov 4, 2007
mentoring is all about showing and helping someone to do their work
Supervising is overseeing how they have done their work and reporting back to management how they are doing. Supervision is also used for employees to get things off their chest about work practises and work relationships not just about the procedures.
By moggy on Nov 6, 2007
Nurse and clinical mentor:
Mentoring means so much more than simple supervision of work or practice.
Mentoring is an enabling activity. The role is to encourage, to enthuse, to model, to shape behaviour, to reduce stress in the workplace, to provide social and pastoral support, to teach and educate (with appropriate guidance on how to access learning materials and information) and so to give broad support and encouragement with academic, professional and personal development.
It is challenging, because outcomes depend very much on the quality of the relationship, and the ability of the mentor to create and foster a productive, ‘give and take’ partnership. Quality control is a part of the role, but the aim of mentorship is not simply ongoing ’supervision’ but to enable another human being to become an independent professional – like yourself.