Do you wish to become an even better mentor and have more tools for the development of your own professional life as well? Here you will find the mentor’s toolbox, with recourses that will help you to support more effectively your mentees, the colleagues in your team and any woman you want to see thriving!
The toolkit includes webinars from the WoT Mentor Training Series, articles on the importance of mentoring, key principles, useful resources, and success stories from other mentors and mentees.
Mentors’ Training #1: Basic Principles of Mentoring
Facilitator: Pinelopi Theodorakakou
Guest Speaker: Nazey Erdilek
Here we explain exactly what effective mentoring is (and isn’t!) and share valuable tools that will make any mentoring partnership more productive as well as more enjoyable for both people involved. We discuss the forms mentoring can take, the good practices but also what to avoid, we answer questions and share useful past experiences.
Mentors’ Training #2: Trust & Active Listening
Facilitator: Stella Kasdagli
Guest Speaker: Samira Eramdani
In this webinar we explore together the role trust plays in the effectiveness of mentoring, suggest tools and practices, and share experiences and tips for more active listening in our mentoring relationships. We answer questions about past or future experiences, with the goal of gaining valuable skills and enriching our own career path.
Mentors’ Training #3: Managing Unconscious Biases
Facilitator: Stella Kasdagli
In the third webinar of the series, we discuss how we can recognize the stereotypes that we carry within us, even without realizing it, which can negatively affect the mentoring relationship or any other part of our lives. We find out tools that help us manage the biases that influence our behavior and which are an inhibitor to our ability to build meaningful and honest relationships.
Mentors’ Training #4: Goal Setting & Confidence
Facilitator: Pinelopi Theodorakakou
Guest Speaker: LaToria Brent
Whether you have years of mentoring experience or just started out, you may be wondering what is the best way to support another woman in clarifying her goals, setting priorities and planning the next steps to achieve them. Here we explore the right tools for the most effective and constructive support and guidance of your mentees, so that you can optimize the goal setting process and achieve even better results for both of you next time.
Funding for Mentors’ Training: The Series is provided by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, with Meridian International Center as implementing partner.
