This document outlines a presentation on mentoring for career development, leadership, and business growth. It defines mentoring as an ongoing structured relationship aimed at developing the mentee's competence and potential. The presentation discusses why mentoring is important for career development, leadership journeys, and business growth. It addresses common myths about mentoring and best practices for effective mentoring relationships, including setting expectations, communication, time investment, and mutual learning. The overall message is that mentoring builds a legacy by developing people and allowing them to achieve more through example, empowerment, and humility.

1. Mentoring for Career, Leadership
and Business Growth
• Ngnaoussi Elongué
Cedric Christian
• Mentor & Knowledge manager
• christianelongue@hotmail.com

2. If you die today, what
will be your legacy?
What will you
remembered for?

3. Objectives
Highlight the strategic role of
mentoring in career development,
leadership and business growth
Facilitate experience sharing on
best mentoring practices
Promote intentional and fruitful
mentoring relationships

4. Plan
What is mentoring
Why mentoring for career development?
How can mentoring influence your leadership
journey?
How can mentoring contribute to your
business growth?
What are the best practices

5. Activity 1
• WHAT IS MENTORING ?
• CAN ANYONE BE A MENTOR/MENTEE?
• WHAT IS THE #CE BETWEEN A
MENTOR/COACH/COUNSELOR?

6. WHAT?
• ongoing, structured relationship with a
trusted individual aimed at developing the
competence and potential of the mentee
• Odysseus, Telemachus, Mentor
• Key elements in mentoring:
• Person
• Process
• Product

7. WHY ?
There is no success without successors.
There is no power without distribution
Empowerment is better than employment
It takes a village to raise a child
Building a legacy

8. Mentoring
& Culture
• Do we have an “African way” or culture to mentoring?
• Have you ever been mentored by someone from the other sex?
• Have you ever been mentored by someone younger than you?

9. Mentoring
Myths
• Mentors are not needed when you are gainfully employed
• A mentor cannot be a mentee (Reverse mentoring)
• A mentor must be older than the mentee
• You must have only one mentor

10. Myths about
mentoring

11. Activity 2
Do you have a
career mentor?
What critical
support have you
received from
him/her?

12. Career
Mentoring
Why : Key to make critical professional decisions
(career growth opps, soft skills, strategy advice etc.).
Help to look at opportunities and obstacles from a #
perspective or refine your leadership philosophy.
Who : A strong and trusted mentor is someone who
can provide you a solid baseline of career support.
Close to your profession or industry
How: Respect. Mutually beneficial. Time & emotional
investment.
Get a career mentor and develop a corporate
mentoring culture

13. Activity 3
Is there any leader that you admire?
Why? Name 3 qualities or values
Do you also portray them?
What do you need to be an effective mentee/mentor?

14. Mentoring
&
Leadership
• Leadership is the capacity to influence others through
inspiration generated by a passion motivated by a vision,
birthed by conviction, produced by a purpose.” Dr. Myles
Munroe
• Leadership is all about influence.
• True leadership can’t be taught but caught.
• “Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only
way.” Albert Schweitzer
• Leadership is not measured by how many people serve you,
but how many people you serve. Great leaders never seek
to be leader, they were serving a cause.

15. Mentoring
&
Leadership
(Con’t)
• True leader do not focus on themselves, but on
other people
• Authority and power is for distribution.
• Good leaders employ people people, Great Leaders
deploy other peope. (Mt 28:19)
• Elijah vs Elisha (Cloth),
• David Vs Solomon (Crown)
• Jesus Vs Peter (Church)

16. Challenges
• Trust
• Time or lack of commitment
• Competence of the mentor
• Poor communication skills
• Personality differences
• Lack of funding
• Mentee not taking initiative
• Gender & power dynamics
• Unrealistic expectation

17. Best practices
• Set realistic expectations in a written plan
• Know your worth and your limitations
• Have multiple level of communication
• Time & emotional investments
• Learn from each other
• Mutual accountability
• Empower, don’t solve
• Respect differences
• Celebrate milestones

18. Final
Remarks
• Mentoring is about building a legacy.
• Jesus Christ never build a building
• He built people. People outlast building.
• The greatest investment in life is in people.
• The greatest influence on people is through example.
• A true leader leads in humility through service.
• A true leader want people to be bigger than him.
• Every mentor also needs a mentor

19. Thank you ☺