Why should you be or have a mentor? Based on Ann Rolfe's 20 years experience setting up mentoring programs, this presentation describes many benefits of mentoring for nurses but applicable for all professionals.

1. What does mentoring offer nurses?

2. Support for new leaders

3. A relationship to discuss leadership issues and challenges

4. a sounding board
for ideas

5. confidence-building
feedback

6. Ongoing Education

7. Conversations for continuous learning

8. Reflection, insight from experience

9. Transfer of learning into practice

10. Nurturing champions & leaders

11. Furthering knowledge and information sharing

12. Engaging
emerging
champions and
leaders

13. Fostering
networking and
group
participation

14. Extended Networks

15. Linking peers within and beyond regions

16. Recognition and development

17. Personal, professional
development and
encouragement

18. Support

19. Reducing isolation

20. Feeling connected, belonging

21. Problem-solving

22. Leadership Opportunities

23. Ways to “step-up” to
further develop yourself
and others

24. Recognising and valuing the knowledge you have to share

25. Empowering
nurses to take on
leadership roles

26. Creating A Mentoring Culture

27. Supporting emerging
nurse-leaders

28. Increasing informal mentoring, networking and sharing
expertise

29. Valuing and practicing
mentoring as a core skill
of nurse-leaders

30. Want to be or
have a mentor?

31. Produced by
Ann Rolfe