Mentoring

“It’s exciting to be a part of something that is truly on the cutting edge. There are so many unexplored benefits doing it anonymously. It really helps me ‘listen’. I suppose it will sharpen my senses as those who are blind and deaf experience a sharpening of the senses they do have. Thank you for letting me help others, for it is helping me.”   Mentor

EQmentor is literally redefining the term “mentoring.” Traditional mentoring is typically a relationship between someone older and more experienced with someone younger and less experienced. Mentoring itself is not an outcome – it is a process. It is a relatively ancient way to get knowledge from where it is (historically in the minds of wiser people) to those who need it (protégés). So the outcome of mentoring is to get knowledge to those who need it so that they can make better decisions. With this definition, we should be open to multiple sources of knowledge.

The EQmentor Model 21st Century Mentoring: Learning from multiple souces at the point of need.

EQmentor is proud to present a 21st Century Mentoring Model where knowledge is transferred to those who need it when they need it from three sources, in a safe learning environment.

Source 1:  The traditional mentor relationship. Mentors continue to be a great source of experiential knowledge.

Source 2: Peer Community.  Web 2.0 technologies allow for collaborative learning from a global community breaking down traditional barriers of geography, industry, and cultures.

Source 3: Knowledge Sources. These are professional databases as well as user-generated content that harness and house repositories of knowledge.

EQmentor provides all three: Custom-matched mentors, a cross-industry peer collaboration area (EQ Village) and knowledge sources of Gale and our own user-generated content. EQmentor provides all this 24/7 asynchronously, accessible from anywhere at anytime (point-of-need learning) and anonymously, creating a safe environment to learn.

Experience
Human beings thrive best when growing in the presence of others who have gone before us.  We learn from these seasoned professionals, who impart lessons in the “art of living.”

• EQmentor has certified mentors from across the country, and from most industries and vocations. These mentors are typically of the Baby Boomer generation or retirees, have had successful professional careers, and are genuinely and intrinsically, interested in mentoring others. Mentors work asynchronously and online, allowing EQmentor to recruit the best mentors from across the nation.

• Our industry-leading comprehensive screening, education, certification and matching process, ensures mentor-mentee relationships of the highest quality.

Knowledge
Our mentors bring a unique combination of their experiential and professional knowledge to help create . . . the perfect learning experience.

• Our custom-built online EQ Room allows our mentors and mentees to communicate asynchronously. Asynchronous communication allows mentors to ask thought-provoking questions, rather than just providing quick and simple answers.  Our anonymous online environment allows for emotionally safe, honest, non-threatening, unbiased and non-judgmental communication.  Mentors also communicate with mentees via instant messenger (myEQim) or participate in scheduled online chats (EQchat).

• Our mentors bring to mentees their personal experiences complemented by access to professional knowledge and EQ tools (myEQtoolkit). With over 200 custom EQ learning and developmental tools as well as Gale (a database with over 9,000 periodicals, housing peer-reviewed articles on most industries), working professionals have an effective and simple way to obtain relevant and current knowledge.

Wisdom
True wisdom is the use of one's experiences and knowledge for the betterment of the community at large. Wisdom is a higher state of actualization where satisfaction is achieved in making others' lives better through one's own skills and talents. Mentoring and enhancing Emotional Intelligence are key pieces to achieving wisdom.