VIH Mentoring Program Mentee Guide Week 1: How to attain cultural immersion The Vira I. Heinz...

VIH Mentoring Program

Mentee Guide Week 1: How to attain cultural immersion

The Vira I. Heinz Program for Women in Global Leadership

Getting to know each other… • What is your major? • Where are you from?• Why did you apply to the VIH Program and where

will your international experienced take place? • If you could have a cup of coffee with one person

living in the world today, who would it be? • Over the course of the next three years, what impact

would you like to make on your community?


Tips for Effective Mentoring

Together

Mentee

• Reciprocity: Both the mentor and the mentee need to be fully invested and committed to participation on a weekly basis.• Respect Confidentiality: Information shared in these sessions stays between you

• Be honest with your mentor and don’t be afraid to ask questions• Stay open to new ideas and new ways of learning• Appreciate the time that your mentor is investing in you


Peer-to-Peer Discussion

What is Mentoring?


Functions of Mentoring

Mentoring means different things to different people. It is

important

for you to be clear on what you want in this relationship.

What do you want to accomplish with the time you have together?Personal

Support

Role

Modeling

Professional

Development

• Friendship• Self Growth

• Role Modeling• Setting SMART goal 1

• Sponsorship• Exposure and visibility to new networks


Mentoring is…The process of forming, cultivating and maintaining mutually beneficial developmental relationships between one or more mentors and one or more mentees.

Peer to-Peer Discussion:Do you agree with this definition? Why or why not?


Setting SMART Mentoring Goals:Think about how you can use your mentoring sessions to prepare

for your time abroad. The following two slides will help youset a SMART goal for your mentoring sessions. Please refer to

your supplemental worksheet.

What is a SMART goal?

Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely


Let’s Talk Logistics…

Please discuss the following:

• Select a regular weekly meeting day and time.

• Where will you meet?

• Consider entering your mentoring sessions in your planners, calendars or phones.


Communication Discussion

I can best be reached by…

My organizational stylecan be described as…

When I get stressed Itend to…

You should probablyknow…

• Ex: E-mail, text, Facebook Messages…• The best time to reach me is…• I am usually not around on…

• Think about how you manage your personal life, school schedule, and work

• I begin to feel stressed when…• To deal with stress I…

• Ex: Sometimes I forget to check e-mail on the weekend• Ex: I really like it when people leave voicemails when

they call• Ex: I dislike when people call multiple times in an hour

Concept borrowed from Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc.


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