LEADERSHIP AND MENTORING

Leadership and Mentoring

Leadership and Mentoring

Leadership is defined by Osgood as a social influence process in which an individual can help his subjects accomplish a given task that has been assigned to them. As a leader, the aim is to organize a group of people towards the achievement of a common goal. Mentoring on the other hand, is defined by Rodd (2001, p. 10) as the informal transmission of knowledge, psychosocial support and social capital to a recipient and the knowledge has to be relevant to his work. As a mentor, one is expected to deliver informal communication that has ...