In a mentorship relationship, an experienced person, a mentor, provides coaching, support, advice, guidance, and feedback to someone with less experience, a mentee. The ALGA mentoring program was established to provide auditors with the opportunity to
have regular conversations with a more experienced auditor from outside their organization. Mentors volunteer their time to discuss career goals and paths, technical issues, organizational or interpersonal challenges, and other areas of interest to
the mentee.
Goals of the Mentoring Program
Share business knowledge and experience to benefit audit professionals interested in career advancement
Enable audit professionals to explore career paths
Demonstrate leadership within the audit industry
Enhance networking opportunities
Increase understanding of diverse business operations and opportunities
The Process
Mentors and mentees are paired together based on what the mentee hopes to gain from the program and the mentor’s experience and self-identified strengths. Typically, the pair have a monthly phone conversation and exchange emails.
First, complete an application form for mentor or mentee. You’ll be asked about your audit experience and what you hope to gain from the program.
The Mentoring Subcommittee will use your responses to select an appropriate individual whom we think would be a good fit to serve as a mentor or mentee.
The Subcommittee will contact you to provide you with a short bio of the selected mentor or mentee so that you can determine if you’d like to be paired with each other.
If it is a good fit, the Subcommittee will contact the mentor and ask him/her to contact the mentee to arrange the first phone meeting.
Why was this program started? The ALGA mentoring program was established to provide auditors an opportunity to have regular conversations with more experienced auditors from outside their organization.
How does the program work? Mentors and mentees are paired together based on what the mentee hopes to gain from the program and the mentor’s experience and self-identified strengths.
What are the benefits of the program?
Career advancement through shared business knowledge and experience
Exploration of career paths
Audit industry demonstrated leadership
Networking opportunities
Increase understanding of diverse business operations and opportunities
What topics are addressed during mentorship?
Lessons the Mentor learned that they wished they had known before.
How to build or supplement a skillset with a less familiar skillset
Discuss how to apply new ideas so you can grow
Who can I contact with questions? Please contact Frank Mayhew at (214) 670-5015 or frank.mayhew@dallas.gov
Documents
These resources are available for mentors and mentees who would like tools to consider as you develop the structure of your mentoring relationship.
Mentoring Made Easy: A Practical Guide—This booklet provides tips for choosing a mentor, and key
roles for the mentor and protege (mentee) (esp. pp. 20-22).
Responsible Conduct of Research Portal, Course 2: Mentoring—The Responsible Conduct of Research education portal is a project of Columbia University's Center for
New Media Teaching and Learning. The Mentoring course (Course 2) is designed primarily for professionals in the science field, but has a wide variety of principles that are useful to all professional mentoring. After choosing Course 2, the
subsection Foundation Text contains a wide discussion on elements such as effective mentoring; roles and responsibilities of mentors and proteges; and the ethics of mentoring.
Coaching and Training for Leadership Development in Civil Society—This short research paper prepared
under the auspices of the International NGO Training and Research Centre (INTRAC) looks at the related ideas of coaching and mentoring. The paper develops the concepts of coaching and mentoring, looks briefly at some cases studies, and assesses
factors related to successful coaching and mentoring. Finally, the paper provides an appendix with several coaching models and tools.
ManagementMentors.com is a business mentoring assistance site, offering myriad paid and free products. See the Resources drop-down menu for free mentoring information, including
tips for mentors and proteges (mentees).
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