What are the benefits of mentoring?

-Mentoring helps both the mentee and the mentor recognise their abilities and limitations, thus highlighting areas for future development.

-It helps prompt thought about career development and come to a realistic conclusion about their career potential.
      
-It can help increase the motivation of both the mentee and the mentor. The mentee gains a new direction or perspective while the mentor feels a sense of achievement when their mentee succeeds.
    
-It will develop communication skills. As well as the obvious listening/questioning skills, you will gain experience of talking to a younger or older colleague. This could help you interact better with your own immediate colleagues at work or university.
    
You will be grooming future allies. Within the same company this could help with internal promotion prospects for both the mentee - gaining a senior supporter, and for the mentor - being seen as someone able to communicate with staff at any level and with an interest in developing future leaders within the company.

In addition the mentor or mentee may find themselves in a position where they are looking for a career change or new position. By developing contacts in other companies you can find out early if there is a vacancy that would suit you.

Thanks for the referral Mr Nikhil

This is a give and take relation where experiences can be shared both by the mentor as well as the mentee.

Yes U r right Anand. and I would add another idea here.

Benefits To Mentee:

@ A mentor can provide a welcome point of stability during a time of change.

@ A mentor can provide guidance on areas you are unfamiliar with, such as attending interviews or pitching to a client.

@ A mentor will be an independent voice, outside your direct sphere of activity. You can bounce ideas off them without fear of comeback.

one more thing , it helps in updating our knowledge by having conversation with fertile mentee who give different angle

True mentoring comes when you look at others as your own extensions. To know others as expanded Self is ultimate wisdom. When this occurs, love, empathy, patience, service, encouragement etc naturally flow. In that consciousness, there is no room for the pride of teaching, but only a joy of loving and serving. The mentee is to be encouraged to motivate oneself. Remember, all motivation is essentially self-motivation ; we can only inspire others to motivate themselves. The proverb is, you can take a horse to the well, you cannot make it drink. Yet, when the horse is aware of its thirst, it drinks. Mentees are helped by the mentor to be first aware of their higher needs such as self-esteem, self-actualization etc. and then enabled to nurture these at workplace and in personal life. Development of right perceptions and attitudes are most important here, and these in turn flow from right values and principles. It's a holistic self-development that includes self-awareness, self-discipline, self-motivation, and eventually, Self-realization.