Mentoring Workshop

I'm attending a mentoring workshop today and tomorrow. This is conducted by an external HR consulting firm called CORE MIND (Corporate Renaissance of Employees Maximization of Individual's Needs and Desires ). The title of the program is "MENTORING - An Invaluable Corporate Lifeline ! Unleash Power of Employee Transformation & Corporate Dynamism".

Perspective
Executives and Managers are feeling battered by the pressures mounting on them and need support, for surviving and growing. Mentoring ideally falls into place and has never been felt more essential. There is an imperative need to meet growing desires of employess to be guided in the work place. Their personal and functional competencies require enhancement. Growing organizations reap utmost benefits by leveraging Mentor - Protégé bonding. Mentoring processes enable mutual growth for Mentors and Protégés which result in overall Organizational Effectiveness, Cultural improvements and Customer delight.

"If every Leader / Manager in Corporate life served as a Mentor to Protégé as well as become a Protégé to a Mentor, we would be more successful and capable of transforming Organizations substantially faster than we do today"

Organization Transformation Model Through Mentoring Process

Voluntarism by and / or Identifcation of Protential Mentors
Integrating willing Mentors and desiring Protégés
Mentors and Protégés relish their journey of togetherness in life
Mentors and Protégés build relationships of mutual acceptance
Mentors enable Protégés in enhancing Personal and Performance Effectiveness
Mentors transform Protégés into emotionally engaged employees
Emotionally engaged employees create emotionally engaged customers
Emotionally engaged customers drive business growth, profits & shareholder value

There are many more to add here to get a perspective of this training program.
The training is conducted by G. Udayakumar, Director of CORE MIND who is a freelancer and excellent corporate trainer.

We were asked to choose a buddy in the beginning of the program. Coincedently, Anand Sinha became my buddy. Then we were asked to mix with another pair of buddies and laer with another set of such group. We were asked to come up with a name, slogan and a song for each team. Here are the teams we formed
1. Phoenix - "Fly High" ( I belong to this group)
2. Disha - "Hum Hein na? "
3. Gurukul - "Reach out"
4. Vanskape - "Passionately Pursuing Potential" ( They say that this name is formed by taking first letter of all members )
5. Enthu Cutlet - "You win, we win, we all win together"

Remaining part of the day was filled with various activities to remember and thus get an inner sight of various people who touched or made a difference in each one of our life.