When it comes to mentoring women encourage their protégés to become their own person and don’t expect them to be cloned in their image. And research shows that humble mentors get the highest quality-of-mentoring ratings from their protégés. So there are lots of good reasons to seek a “Womentor”. Are you ready to find the right one?
1) Look for inspiration- Seek a woman who is productive, someone doing well in her field. She’ll likely have the same devotion to excellence as a mentor as she does to her profession and you’ll be the beneficiary. Also, her credibility will rub off on you, improving your status. There’s nothing like star-power to inspire you to improve your skills.
2) Look for recent experience- A mentor who has traveled a journey can draw a better road map, especially if they have driven that road recently. Thus, I suggest matching a mentor with 5 to 7 years more experience than their protege. Women seek mutuality in relationships and its best achieved in this more collegial manner.
3) Seek good chemistry- Its important to trust your mentor and that is more easily achieved if you share values, if she has good interpersonal skills and is warm. You want a Womentor who listens to you, not someone who interrupts you. It’s important that she doesn’t expect perfection but also that she offers corrective feedback. Afterall, we have mentors to improve and if you trust her you’ll feel confident that this feedback comes from a good place.
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