MENTOR IN EDUCATION AND BUSINESS - INTELLIGENCES AND COMPETENCIES

Mentoring is one of the most effective tools at promoting professional development. In literature there is a subtle line between mentoring and coaching activity within organization. This research aims to highlight the importance of intelligence in developing competencies for a mentor. In practice, we find mentors with different abilities and competencies according to the environment where they develop activity, in a private or public organization. Depending on situation, the mentor can make recommendation for training, provides continuing advice and assistance and evaluates progress of the mentee. For this occupation the article provide an analysis based on observation, for different professional or occupational standards, in countries as USA, Canada, UK. From this comparative analysis we can observe that the mentor does not operates only in education field, he can also influence the organizational culture at the workplace. A good mentor is defined by a strong emotional intelligence, social and interpersonal competencies and also skills. Another aspect analysed in this paper is related to formal or informal mentoring. Practice activity shows that employees are getting benefits especially from informal mentoring relationships. Through this empirical research we try to identify new patterns of behaviour in mentor training and correlate them with organizational benefits of mentoring.