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A guide for mentors A guide for mentors

How to help your mentee’s career beyond advice, and close the relationship well.

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What this guide covers

What this guide covers

What this guide covers

Where advice stops

Advice alone may not move careers

In one study, having a mentor raised men’s promotion odds but not women’s.

2 years Later, a mentor had raised promotion odds for men, with no effect for women; the gap was sponsorship Ibarra, 2019

Two jobs

A mentor does two jobs

Career help opens doors and personal support builds confidence, so plan for both.

  • Sponsorship speak up for them
  • Visibility show their work
  • Stretch work a project that tests them
  • Support confidence, a sounding board

The sponsorship ladder

Know which step you are on

Advice, strategy, connection, opportunity, sponsorship: each step asks more of you.

Warm introductions

Make warm introductions

A short email says who, why them, and asks for twenty minutes.

  • Who a colleague ready for a bigger stage
  • Why you you run the leadership forum
  • The ask twenty minutes, any week
  • An easy out a no is fine

A good ending

End the last meeting on purpose

Review the goals, name what they now do alone, and agree what comes next.

  • Goals reviewed what moved, what did not
  • Done alone now skills they own
  • After this colleagues, the odd coffee
  • Thanks said in specifics

Doing it on Mentornity

Track it on Mentornity

Lists, past meetings, certificates and events keep the record straight.

Use to-do lists

Unfinished items also show on your home page.

Add a past meeting

Record a meeting you held so the program sees it.

Follow certificate progress

The program team publishes it once the conditions are met.

Join program events

Meet the people worth introducing your mentee to.

Use to-do lists

Unfinished items also show on your home page.

Add a past meeting

Record a meeting you held so the program sees it.

Follow certificate progress

The program team publishes it once the conditions are met.

Join program events

Meet the people worth introducing your mentee to.

Pick one door to open

Choose one introduction or stretch task to offer before your next meeting.

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