Get up-to-date on the latest research in women's leadership to help you articulate your challenges to your mentor. Learn how to ask for the insights you need from your mentor.
Basics
Empowering Framework
Ground yourself in your core responsibilities in the mentoring relationship. Understand what's reasonable to expect from your mentor and what's not.
Tools
Templates & Guidelines
Goal-setting, discussion agendas and topic prompts to support you in both formal and informal mentoring relationships.
Relationship
Powerful Discussion Topics
Not sure what to talk about? Choose from a curated collection of women’s leadership and career topics and resources to stimulate in-depth discussions with your mentor. 50+ articles and video links included. Updated regularly.
Resources
Coaching Tools
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Introduction
Welcome!
This toolkit is designed to be used by mentors with female protégés to help you navigate the specific challenges women face in today's workplace.
In the sections below you’ll find basic guidelines, worksheets and approaches to building a healthy mentoring relationship from which both parties benefit.
You’ll also find a variety of topics, including research and data, which mentors and protégés can use as base content to use as a starting point in more in-depth conversations. We've highlighted leadership, career and women's content here to help you stimulate meaningful dialog in your mentor relationship. Use these topics and resources a kickoff points to discuss how some of these issues manifest in your experience.
You can use the materials below in either a structured or unstructured manner to facilitate meaningful and fruitful conversations to support a beneficial relationship for you both.
Want to help your mentor get off on the right foot? Guide them to the companion program designed just for them.
Tropes & Truths: updating your frame on women in leadership
Whether you're new to mentoring or not, these core templates and refreshers will get you start off on the right foot.
What does success look like for mentoring?
Mentor vs. Sponsor
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How do you get a mentor?
The Mentoring Agreement - Formal or Informal?
Mentoring Do's and Don'ts
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Gender and Mentorship
Where things go wrong (and how to prevent this)
Goal-setting and Structuring Your Conversations
Discussion Topics for Mentors and their Female Protégés
Below in this section, you will find a number of articles and resources on various topics relevant to mentoring women into greater effectiveness, productivity and career growth.
Feel free to share the resources with your mentor directly and come to your meetings ready to discuss. This should give you some good openings to ask for specific advice and insights you can apply in your day-to-day work.
These conversations can be invaluable to both of you when it comes to updating your perspectives on employee, gender and generational issues relevant to your own leadership effectiveness and career growth.
Fact Sheet: Getting women and men on the same page
Often a mentoring relationship will surface issues that require deeper exploration, and which are not appropriate for the mentoring relationship itself.
In these cases—whether you’re a mentor or a protégé—you want to reach out to someone skilled at coaching and counseling around the issues women face in the workplace.
