REDEFINING MENTORSHIP Online
Redefining mentorship online
Whenever a person starts a new avenue, a new business or anything new, then the experience they have is relatively less and there is a need for someone to be by their side who is experienced and has a gist of know-how of the business. Someone like a mentor that can guide them through their journey.
“The traditional definition of a mentor — someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person — needs to be both updated and broadened for today’s workplace.” — Susan R. Meisinger, former president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management
But in this fast-paced digital world, it is very hard for a mentor and mentee to meet regularly and discuss the strategies to be used in future business aspects. So the need for an online mentorship form where the mentoring process can be done at ease is the need of the hour.
There should be tools available in the online mentoring platform like:
Whiteboard
This is a plug-in that enables online team collaboration to be used for brainstorming, tutoring for education/ discussion. One can collaborate to share blueprints, strategic plans, system drawings in real time. Associated features of wireframe sketching tool help in freehand drawing and line smoothing and shape recognition algorithm helps in display pretty shapes. The post-it attachment makes it very helpful for brainstorming. The whiteboard can be saved as an image into a pdf file and can be shared across the team. In addition, the whiteboard can have a live audio chat (Skype for example) whiteboard sharing, image sharing and document sharing is ideal for online tutoring, design communication or having productive meetings.
Video Conferencing
This plug-in is like any other video conferencing tool that enables up to 4 people to the conference and creating a dedicated/ locked room with a flexible layout. One can then share their screen as well as chat during the video conference. Additional features of recording the conference are as well available.
Document Manager
The Document Manager allows the user to create different documents that are going to be consumed by the team/project. Each file gives information about its author when it was created and other file credentials.
File Manager
The File Manager allows the users of the team to organize the files created in the process to store it on the server so that it can be downloaded later on for reference or otherwise.
Chat
The chat tool will enable the mentors and the mentees to interact one on one at the time of discussion.
Tools like these are the necessary requirements of an online mentoring platform that will help the mentors and mentees to get the mentoring process done at ease.
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