Mentor Characterization and Profile

The mentor is considered someone with experience, reliable, able to balance functions, stimulating, encouraging and supporting evolution of other people.

There are six dimensions of knowledge that, articulated with each other, allow to outline a profile of skills required for mentoring. 

These dimensions are:

1. Didactic knowledge, which consists of having knowledge and being due to current themes.
2. Problem-solving, where there is a need to be proactive in identifying, preventing, and solving problems and revealing availability in the development of mechanisms for continuous improvement and elimination of inefficiencies.
3. Development of a plan, which includes challenge actions to support the mentor adjusted to mentored audience.
4. Ability to communicate, i.e. able to convey information and ideas in different contexts.
5. Emotional mastery, in the sense of being able to guide the mentoring to the emotional state necessary for a certain action they are addressing.
6. Willingness for continuous learning and collaboration with learning from others. The mentor should be able to guide learning in practice to another professional and know knowledge building processes.