With an attitude of modesty, you offer no danger or threat to those around you. (Mentoring: The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom)

Mentor: Barbara Rawlins, Monitoring and Evaluation Team Leader, Maternal and Child Survival Program

Another feature of this blog is bringing you advice and perspectives from people who mentor, by answering 3 questions.
Here are Barbara Rawlins’ responses:
What are mentees looking for? · Career guidance · Technical advice · Moral support · Advice on how to negotiate politically-sensitive or controversial situation
What 1 piece of advice do you give every mentee you work with? Figure out what they want to do (in the long term) and what steps they can take to get there
Why are you interested in mentoring? To support younger colleagues, especially women, to help attain their career goals

Expanding Mentoring Help from SueMentors: A New Webinar

I enjoy the individual mentoring that I do for organizations and for personal clients. For several years, I’ve wanted to make mentoring help more widely available. Writing my blog was a start at that.
But my mentor-mentee interactions have reinforced that mentees want – and need – real-time examples of advice that addresses their issues.
So I am pleased to be partnering with my graduate alma mater, the Tulane University Office of Alumni Relations, to initiate a monthly Mentoring Help webinar, with the first webinar in May 2018. The 30-minute format will include 3 sections: A brief review of the mentoring topic for the monthA case example of the mentoring topic with a mentee and mentor working through the mentee's issue in real timeSueMentor’s Question Time (aka answering questions submitted in advance of the webinar).

This form solicits information from you about your interest in attending the webinars, identification of the issue(s) that you'd like the mentor to address, and des…

I feel like an Imposter – Am I one?

I am always surprised when a mentee tells me they feel like a fraud or an imposter – and I know how accomplished they are.
And then I remember the times I have felt this way.
Learn what Imposter Syndrome is – and isn’t, what it “means,” and how to deal with it. This is all in the Boost Your Career webinar, Imposter Syndrome: Am I the Only One?
Bitly: https://bit.ly/2Oup9UD or Full: https://www.gotostage.com/channel/5117533204124515078/recording/08edf5645cf749f5b22d0f47a7293f5c/watch?source=CHANNEL

Register here for updates on new webinars: https://forms.gle/o6s2sYwiQ4Sf5eW87
And the full Boost Your Career webinar list so far….

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