Week 22 - Performace Management

Week 22 – Performance Management

At Bucks New University they keep a keen eye on your performance, every assignment or presentation is graded and then handed back to you, this is how your performance is measured. Assignments can also be handed in early and looked over by your lecturers, and feedback can be given to improve the assignment before the official hand in date. Personal tutors are also available to talk to about help for assignment and feedback on work done so far. 

How to be a successful mentor – 

• ·         A mentor has to know the people he is mentoring, he/she needs to know a person’s capabilities and weaknesses, how to motivate them and stop them getting distracted. The mentor needs to be clear about the person’s goals.
•         Mentors/team leaders are normally very busy, but a good mentor needs to make sure they have time when their team needs help or suggestion. They will need to listen to their teams problems and suggestions and give appropriate feedback.
• ·         Mentors need to make sure their people are passionate about their work. Workers will try harder if they are passionate about their work as opposed to working just for the sake of earning money.
• ·         A good mentor is usually experienced in their field and has learned from their mistakes.
• ·         A mentor must be patient with its team. They will need to handle lots of queries and deal with lots of varying problems from the team.

There has been one main mentor in my life, my uncle. He has always been there for me through everything. He would always be there if I needed help with any school work for my GCSE’s, A-Levels and even uni work. I greatly look up to him being an extremely successful business man, he always knows how to motivate me in times that I really need it. From seeing him prevail in the industry I want to go into makes me want to try harder so I can be as successful as him.