What is mentoring?
Mentoring is based on sharing experiences, guidance, and support, and can help you tackle the challenges you face in your professional life more effectively.
Your mentor, a woman more experienced than yourself, from the same or similar professional field, can help you overcome even seemingly insurmountable problems. She can offer a fresh perspective and help you make your career one of the best parts of your life.
Mentoring can take different forms, depending on the needs and availability of each mentor and her mentee: in-person meetings, remote communication (via email, phone, Zoom), or job shadowing, where the mentee watches her mentor at work.
Who is it for?
For all women, 16 and over, who want to find a job, grow professionally, start their own business, change career paths, and/or accomplish their professional dreams.
It is also for women with more than 3 years of professional experience, who want to become volunteer mentors and share their stories with less experienced women.
How does mentoring work?
Explore our active mentors on the Women On Top platform
Buy the mentoring package that suits you best
Register and find the right mentor for you
Start your mentoring relationship
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Mentors' Toolbox
Do you wish to become an even better mentor and gain skills for your own professional development as well? Here you will find the mentor’s toolbox, with tools that will help you provide more effective support to your mentees, other members in your team and any woman you want to see reaching her full potential!
FAQ
Perhaps you feel that your friends or family are not the best people to help you address your concerns about work. Or you might feel that the issues you are facing are too thorny to ever be resolved. Even so, mentoring through WoT can in fact offer a fresh perspective and help you make your work one of the best parts of your life.
A very important aspect of the mentoring process is the sharing of mentor’s knowledge and experiences with the mentee. Moreover, the mentee can ask for her mentor’s opinion and feedback. In coaching relationships, on the other hand, the coach must remain objective and refrain from expressing their personal views and opinions or sharing their personal experiences. Coaches use specific methods and tools to assist in the personal and professional growth of their coachees.
In addition, in the context of mentoring, as designed and implemented by WoT, mentors are volunteers coming from different fields of work and sectors, whereas coaches offer their services in a professional capacity.
Lastly, mentoring can become a long-term relationship, whereas coaching is (usually) a more short-term collaboration.
The main difference between mentoring and counselling/therapy is that mentoring focuses on the professional growth of the mentee instead of any personal issues/challenges they might be facing. Counselling/therapy, on the other hand, mainly focuses on self-consciousness and personal growth. Moreover, as in the case of coaching, counsellors are specialised professionals, offering their services against payment.
Nonetheless, all three approaches use some common tools and practices, and, of course, skills, such as active listening, building of a safe framework of trust, and empathy.
Perhaps you feel that your friends or family are not the best people to help you address your concerns about work. Or you might feel that the issues you are facing are too thorny to ever be resolved. Even so, mentoring through WoT can in fact offer a fresh perspective and help you make your work one of the best parts of your life.