Seventy-one percent of Fortune 500 companies offer mentor programs to their employees. If you don’t have a mentor program in your dealership, what’s stopping you from implementing a Mentor\/Mentee program in your department and dealership?<\/p>\n
A mentoring program is not just directing a new employee to ask seasoned employees questions, it is a relationship between a less-experienced employee and his or her mentor who is seen as a role model\u2014someone to learn from and to look for advice when needed.<\/p>\n
Benefits for the Dealership: Mentoring reduces employee turnover, improves workforce productivity, extends the careers of older employees, and grooms future leaders. A mentoring program encourages your experienced staff to spread their knowledge and best practices to new employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n Benefits for the Mentee: The new employee will feel less isolated\u2014less like the new kid. A formal mentor\/mentee agreement gives the new employee \u201cpermission\u201d to ask questions instead of muddling through a problem for fear of looking ignorant. Fewer mistakes will be made and the learning curve is shortened. This is a win-win for the dealership and the employee.<\/p>\n Benefits for the Mentor: Peter Drucker (developer of the management by objectives concept) said: \u201cNo one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.\u201d As a mentor you have a new appreciation of your skills, and you learn from your mentee. You become even more of an asset to your Dealership as you fine-tune your leadership skills. If you had a mentor that helped you, contact your mentor to say thank you; express your gratitude on social media or make a financial contribution to a local mentoring program in your mentor\u2019s honor. Best yet, pass on what you received by becoming a mentor to a person in your dealership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seventy-one percent of Fortune 500 companies offer mentor programs to their employees. If you don’t have a mentor program in your dealership, what’s stopping you from implementing a Mentor\/Mentee program in your department and dealership? A mentoring program is not just directing a new employee to ask seasoned employees questions, it is a relationship between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dealership-best-practices","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.profits4dealers.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDoes it take a special person to be a mentor? Anyone who can answer yes to the following questions could be a good mentor:
\n\u2022 Do you enjoy working with people?
\n\u2022 Do you respect your colleagues?
\n\u2022 Do you recognize when others need help?
\n\u2022 Are you patient and tolerant when teaching someone?
\n\u2022 Do you enjoy your work and want to share that excitement with others?
\n\u2022 Do you have sufficient self-confidence to help someone move ahead without feeling threatened?
\n\u2022 Do you see mentoring as an opportunity for personal growth?
\n\u2022 Do you find helping others personally rewarding?<\/p>\n