Careers Professional Development & Mentoring

It’s an Advisor… It’s a Role Model… It’s a Mentor!

Mentoring relationships are difficult to classify. Mentors wear the hats of advisor, friend, teacher, role model, coach, and listener. Mentoring is a two-way relationship; both mentors and protégés benefit from their experiences:

Benefits of Having a Mentor	Benefits of Being a Mentor
Increased skills and knowledge; Increased potential for career mobility and promotion; Improved understanding of professional roles and responsibilities; Insights into professional cultures and unwritten professional rules; Supportive environment in which successes and failures can be evaluated; Smoother transition through management levels; Developing tools to acquire competencies and professional experience; Potential increased visibility; Networking opportunities; Development of professional self-confidence; Advice on how to balance work and other responsibilities.	Challenging discussion with people who have fresh perspectives; Enhanced knowledge of other areas of the profession; Improved ability to share knowledge and experience; Satisfaction from contributing to the protégé’s development; Opportunity to test new ideas; Expanded network of professional colleagues; Opportunity to meet a prospective employee; Use or develop new skills and interests; A new and reinvigorated outlook on your own career.

Benefits of Having a Mentor

Benefits of Being a Mentor

Increased skills and knowledge;
Increased potential for career mobility and promotion;
Improved understanding of professional roles and responsibilities;
Insights into professional cultures and unwritten professional rules;
Supportive environment in which successes and failures can be evaluated;
Smoother transition through management levels;
Developing tools to acquire competencies and professional experience;
Potential increased visibility;
Networking opportunities;
Development of professional self-confidence;
Advice on how to balance work and other responsibilities.

Challenging discussion with people who have fresh perspectives;
Enhanced knowledge of other areas of the profession;
Improved ability to share knowledge and experience;
Satisfaction from contributing to the protégé’s development;
Opportunity to test new ideas;
Expanded network of professional colleagues;
Opportunity to meet a prospective employee;
Use or develop new skills and interests;
A new and reinvigorated outlook on your own career.

Source: WTS Boston, MA Chapter Mentoring Program

SWEP-MA Professional Development & Mentoring Program

Are you interested in participating in our new Mentoring program? If so, please fill out our interest form, and send your completed form to SWEP Programs Committee member Janet Connolly at jkconnolly@sanbornhead.com.

SWEP Mentoring Program Sign-Up Form

Download the SWEP Mentoring Program Sign-Up Form [PDF].