Stay Bright Mentoring

What Is Mentoring?

A mentor is someone who can listen, support and advise you. Their role is to use their experience to understand a mentee’s situation, and offer a fresh perspective to help work towards a successful solution.

Stay Bright Mentoring supports any business or organisation with young people in their staff team or on placement. Designed to work alongside line manager supervision, Stay Bright delivers one-to-one sessions with young staff to build confidence, enhance performance and increase loyalty.

THE BENEFITS OF MENTORING

Personal Development

With a focus on goals, working relationships, soft skills, decision making and more, mentoring empower self development.

A Fresh Perspective

A mentor uses their experience to show the mentee alternative viewpoints, separated from the mentee’s emotions.

Confidence Growth

Exploration, understanding and a solutions based focus help mentees to build confidence in the workplace.

How Can Mentoring Positively
Impact Young Employees?

Builds Resilience And Maturity

The workplace presents many challenges for those new to it. Mentoring supports young people to overcome setbacks, handle conflict and develop emotional growth.

Building Closer Connections

A mentee can develop a closer working relationship with their line manager through mentoring, as well as the wider team and company/organisation.

Increased Motivation

A mentor’s work complements the employee’s line manager, making them feel more heard, and building motivation and company loyalty.

“Martin was a listening ear, a helping hand to guide, and at times, a much-needed shoulder to lean on.”

Supporting Work Transitions

Mentoring works most effectively to support transitions. Young employees have a variety of transitions they will face in their early career, starting from the moment they begin their first job.

Education To Employment

Staring any job can be nerve-racking. Your first job from education see you not only have to adapt to your role, but the rules and etiquette of the workplace.

Moving Jobs

Taking up a new job means different responsibilities, a new line manager and getting to know and work with a new set of colleagues.

Starting A New Role

Whether through a promotion or a change of direction, starting a new role

Hybrid Working

The modern workplace spans the office and home. The approach brings pros and cons for a young person in employment, and can lead to weakened relationships.

Returning To Work

Coming back to the workplace after a period away, whether through illness, mental health, or training/learning, can bring anxiety to a young employee.

Location Change

Starting a new job can sometimes mean more than just a new workplace. Moving to a new location at the same time can present a difficult transition for a young employee.

Testimonials

The testimonials below are from employers and employees who have seen how Stay Bright Mentoring can transform you confidence, performance and ambitions of young people in work.

“Before I started mentoring, I don’t think I realised what an impact it would have on my life. I have now realised that mentorship can be whatever it is the mentee needs at that time.

“The flexibility and easy acceptance of my mentor meant that sometimes we’d be discussing typical career focused issues, while at other times Martin was a gentle voice of reason when I was struggling to cope with my responsibilities.”

Mentee

“Martin is a very experienced and skilled mentor, able to adapt his approach for a wide range of clients, their individual circumstances and objectives.

“He’s friendly, intuitive, supportive and very encouraging. He has the great knack of being able to build a warm working relationship with his clients very quickly and effectively, enabling them to comfortably achieve their developmental goals.”

Employer

“When I met Martin, I was clueless. Every workday I felt like a hamster on a wheel and asked myself “Why am I doing this?”

“Martin helped me figure out what path I want to follow career-wise in a logical hands down style. He asked the hard questions I was either afraid to ask or not aware of their importance.”