MENTEE:  Role & Responsibilities

• Actively engage with mentoring process & appointed mentor 
• Drive the process - take responsibility for managing mentoring relationship including meeting commitments, arranging meetings etc.
• Set clear objectives and goals & realistic expectations around delivering on development needs 
• Communicate directly, honestly & openly, be curious, pose questions, share ideas
• Be willing to listen & take on board constructive feedback & advice
• Retain responsibility for own learning

MENTOR: Role & Responsibilities

• Provide guidance & support in addressing identified development needs
• Act as sounding board, provide encouragement & source of knowledge, stimulate insight
• Create new perspectives & different ways of thinking
• A figure with whom mentees can discuss their aspirations & concerns; who will listen; provide constructive feedback, challenge as appropriate
• See positives in mentee they may be unaware of
• Support & encourage mentee to take positive action
• Help mentee to understand how things operate in UCC including the unspoken norms & values  
• Introduce mentee to peers & colleagues as relevant to assist them become familiar with & integrate into the wider University

Key Mentoring Skills

A mentor will be someone who:

• Listens
• Is an opposite
• Uses non-judgmental questioning
• Offers different perspectives
• Has specific knowledge
• Fares; is warm; wants to help
• Can relate to issues of the mentee
• Sees patterns
• Has experience
• Is trustworthy / ensures confidentiality