LEADERS AS MENTORS

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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INTRODUCTION
Mentoring is an essential leadership skill. In addition to managing and motivating
people, it's also important that you can help others learn, grow and become more
effective in their jobs.

Helping people move their careers in the right direction is a key element in
developing people.

CASE STUDY
BOBRICK WASHROOM EQUIPMENTS
Bobrick Washroom Equipment, Inc. has been manufacturing high quality washroom accessories for over 100
years. Headquartered in Hollywood, California, this family-owned business boasts six manufacturing divisions
across the United States and Canada and business operations that extend into 85 markets worldwide. In 2013,
Bobrick wanted to take its employee development to the next level by investing in emerging leaders who showed
potential for long-term growth, engaging with them in meaningful ways, and focusing on their specific
development needs. In addition, the company wanted to tap into existing leaders and find a way to help them
share their wisdom with others within the organization. Elizabeth Bayee, Bobricks Learning & Development
Manager, says that building significant interpersonal relationships with emerging leaders and executives was
critical because the company wanted the emerging leaders to have individuals they could consult with regarding
unfamiliar situations whenever they came up. It soon became clear that developing a strong mentoring program
with a focus on leadership would be necessary. As a result, Bayee set out to find the right mentoring partner to
support Bobricks initiative and to help her successfully develop and manage the companys new program.
Bayee and her team did a thorough search for a mentoring vendor and narrowed the field to Management
Mentors and another company. Bayee says it was Rene Petrin, Management Mentors founder and president,
who helped seal the deal, because his approach and mentoring philosophy aligned with her teams vision for
Bobricks mentoring program. She also appreciated the many resources (such as free white papers) available on
the companys website. And, of course, there was Mentoring Complete, the signature software fromManagement
Mentors.

ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDY

The company wanted to invest in emerging leaders for potential long term growth and thus
wanted the experienced leaders to mentor the budding ones.

The company developed to initiate the new programs for building significant interpersonal
relationships with emerging leaders and executives.

They wanted to develop the program for facing any unfamiliar situation which may occur.

Initially the mentors and mentorees were hesitant but realising the objective they had to
achieve, they found a specific structure.

CONCLUSION- The leaders shared the knowledge possessed by them and which helped the
budding individuals to grow and move towards the same objective of the organisation. The
leaders as mentors could also enhance their own knowledge and develop social relationship
and also their communication skills

ARTICLE REVIEW

A mentor acts as a role model to the other person by demonstrating traits, skills
and behaviours.

For the overall organisational growth mentoring is very important aspect for a
leader.

Mentorship and leadership are used interchangeably.

A leader is someone who guides and commands a person or a group towards one
objective and leadership is well defined goal assigned by person or organisation of
authority.

For example- A owner hiring a manager.

How to develop better mentoring skills-

TRUST

WALK AND
TALK

MUTUAL
COMMITMENT

CHOOSING
YOUR
MENTOREES

Mentoring partnership helps in developing leadership,

communication skills and leads to career advancement.

BY-

AYAN SINGH- 1620309

MANISH AGARWAL- 1620384
NIHAL JAWANDHIYA- 1620369

SHRESTH PARMAR- 1620333