Sue Gregory is one of DMUK mentors and her profile detailing her extensive experience can be found on the DMUK website. Download profile here
What does mentoring mean to you, your business or your organisation? Have you had experience of mentoring, good or bad? Whatever your current view and concepts of the process it may be worth giving this potentially fantastic tool some more thought.
Every organisation is different, from the megalith of the NHS to the small independent dental practice, thus the capacity to deliver and receive effective mentoring will vary with the environment. Such variation may not directly relate to the size of the organisation, but more importantly to the dynamics within it. The concept of mentoring may be well accepted, as generally within the NHS. The corporate environment demonstrates a much wider variation in acceptance of the concept. In a very controlling organisation the use of external mentors may be frowned upon, internal mentors may then be influencing rather than mentoring.