Good morning! I wanted to give you an update on the process underway to identify mentors for the upcoming Beacon intern group. After getting feedback from the current group of interns and mentors, we determined a little different approach for this year. As you recall, last year, SLT identified a number of potential mentors; along with HRBP’s; we then checked to see if they had interest and confirmed approval with their leaders. We selected a final diverse group primarily based on HRBP feedback and our own personal knowledge of the individuals. We were really pleased with the outcomes. There were a couple of the mentors that just weren’t the right fit for the intern and struggled a bit connecting –however that certainly could happen again but it did help us to think …show more content…
The next steps will be for Izaah to personally meet with each mentor candidate to talk more about what the Beacon program is, the expected role/responsibility of a mentor and the time commitment involved. He will also seek to understand their passion, life experiences and relatability factor. We wouldn’t consider this an interview as much as a conversation to ensure the mentor candidate fully understands what this means as well as gives us an idea of how well they might connect with a high school student intern in this demographic. Once he has met with all those interested, he and I will discuss and determine those that will be selected. Izaah will then personally reach out to each mentor – selected and non-selected to hold a follow up discussion. From there, there will be additional pre-meetings, training and group mentor discussions to best prepare the mentor group. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback.
As a program coordinator for Colonial Mentors, I demonstrated my ability to effectively plan, develop, and implement organizational structure to a program. Colonial Mentor is a mentoring program designed to aspire college students to succeed in their academic careers. With my role, I was responsible for the organizational direction of the program and communicating the progress to the program director, my supervisor. I began the planning process with researching and gathering the materials needed to compose an effective mentoring program. I developed the program curriculum, policies, code of conduct, procedures for recruitment, training, and matching of mentors and mentees. Once the innovations were approved by the program director, I introduced
Everyday Soldiers separate from the military, and everyday Soldiers are left without jobs. I read an article recently entitled “3 Important Reasons Why Having a Mentor Matters” by Joshlyn Ross. This article discusses why it is so important to have a mentor when looking into starting your own business, and what benefits it can have on your success. The first focus is that a mentor can provide you with expertise you might not have such as hiring needs, accounting needs, or marketing needs. Along with helping you identify the correct direction, the second reason mentors matter, is that a mentor can help you avoid common mistakes through real life experiences. The final focus is that having a mentor can set you up to be a lifelong learner in that as a business owner you are going to have to learn and adapt to changes
When dealing with women and minorities in the work environment, there are challenges in training effectiveness. Women and minorities need mentors in order to be effective, because they need someone that can lead them in a direction that will help their career. Mentoring is a big factor when dealing with this type of employees. There is a great need for mentoring and helping these groups associate their goals with their careers. Some mentors are on the same level, but it is critical that they recognize the need in helping others that have been in the same situation. Counseling and career programs that help accelerate their goals while moving them up the corporate chain is a valuable need that mentors must utilize. “The fact remains that people generally seek out and maintain mentoring relationships with people who are like interns of race, gender,
Having a mentorship would allow interns to feel free to ask questions. Not only would it allow them to ask questions, but it would also give them the chance to express their own opinions on how the company is running. Also, a mentorship relationship not only benefits the mentee, but it also can be good for the mentor. This semester I was a mentor to a freshman boy, and I benefitted more than I ever expected. I realized how important it is to go out of my way when making a connection or relationship with someone; it will not happen over night. Therefore, a business could flourish if its members were better connected and have deeper relationships than surface level interactions.
The questions I ask are broad - and the gyst is that I am looking for you thoughts about mentors you have had - and of those you have mentored (or are currently mentoring). Based on your answers, I will follow up with additional questions in order to get a clear story.
The media industry is one that is largely based off of “who you know.” As an aspiring A&R and music executive, I think that it is extremely vital for young professionals, like myself, to have mentors in the media industry. A mentor is traditionally as someone who teaches or gives help and advice a less experienced individual. The media industry is one that is fast paced and requires a lot of knowledge. Having the opportunity to seek advice from someone who holds a position that I one day hope to attain, or even surpass, is invaluable. Having a mentor will allow me to learn from an experienced professional and can show me the ropes in my chosen field. A mentor can also provide wisdom about breaking into the industry and career challenges that
It is my great pleasure and honor to be a mentor for Dr. Jiafen Hu for the KL2 scholar award from the clinical and translational science institute (CTSI) of Pennsylvania State University (PSU). I am the interim chair of the Pathology Department. I had the chance to interact with her and got to know her work during different department meetings. As a key co-investigator in several NIH grants, she also received an awarded R21 last year as PI together with her mentor Dr. Christensen. Over the years, she had emerged as a productive junior faculty in the department by displaying her amazing ability to studying significant subjects related to papillomavirus-associated diseases and cancers, and her passion and dedication to the research. Her work has resulted in more than 32 peer-reviewed publications and 51 presentations at national and international meetings. She has received recognition in the papillomavirus field among scientists worldwide.
This has been my second year with ACE Mentors and it has been even better experience than before. This year,I have taken everything I learned previously and improved upon it. With the confidence I have gained, I attended the ACE Summer Camp,exploring other fields. I also learned about lesser known careers in ACE such as construction law or materials engineering. In addition, using the advice from my mentors last year, I applied and have been accepted into 8 ABET accredited colleges.I have also been chosen as the leader of our ACE team, helping me to improve my soft skills. I hope to put these skills to use alongside the experience I’ve gained in ACE, to improve my community as a civil engineer.
I am currently a First Year BA student who will be transitioning into my second year of college. It would be a privilege to take up the role of a peer mentor, especially since my experience of the program had a sublime impact on me. I came into the college not knowing anyone but through the peer mentor program, I was able to meet new people and build friendships which definitely changed my college experience in a positive way.
Mentoring is when the teachers regularly set up a time to personally talk to and focus on the student’s progress, challenges, and goals. When I was asking Ms. Quinn about this, she is one of the teachers testing out summit, she said she felt as if this particular part of Summit allows the relationship between teacher and student to strengthen, and makes
As soon as classes start we will also be attending as many classes as possible so that people come to our first informational. We plan on recruiting the high school students through their open house. We did this with the purpose of announcing the program in front of their parents, family members and teacher so that they help us to motivate them to show up. Since we plan on recruiting members earlier than usual next year we do plan on having a good portion of mentors however I hope that the ratio of mentors to mentees is the same so that we continue to have one to one peer mentoring. I think that they benefit more from the program when we dedicate the entire time to just one mentee rather than two or three.
In my Preliminary Topic Memo, I stated that “mentors can also reap the benefits of a Mentorship Program”, but I neglected to explain how that will be possible. While I was first developing the idea of the program, I completely overlooked the fact that not everyone is built to be a mentor. For many of the interns, this will be their first time teaching someone.
"Isn't this such a treat?" Semmia marvels as she pulls apart the platinum doors and escorts us into a dining room filled with beautiful cakes and snacks that even District one hadn't the pleasure of seeing. I bite my lip and she motions to the two center seats and we automatically adopt a nervous pose in them. I had never felt so frightened in my life.
A mentor is a facilitator with no agenda except to have a mutually beneficial relationship towards improving the mentee. When the mentorship program is established properly, it will guide upcoming professionals by providing them a support structure to help the employee succeed and to improve the organization. A good example of mentoring is the General Electric (GE) entry level mentorship program which is designed for new college graduates with a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, relevant business or science degree to participate in the two-year Commercial Leadership Program (CLP). The focus of the program is to accelerate career talent with assignments to develop and expose candidates in the sales and sales support area of the company. This entails 3 or 4 rotational assignments in education from sales and leadership. The training is designed to guide and advance the participants to further their knowledge and skill of their field of business within the nine business units of GE. If the participants are successful in the Experienced CLP, they will be hired for future growth in the individual businesses within
During the mentor experience, my group and I had many experiences both good and bad. Personally, I enjoyed this experience very much as it was a learning process for all of us and our group came a long way after all.