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The Rewards of Mentoring :: Women on Business

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Stimmler , contributing Women on Business writer A few days ago I received an out-of-the-blue email from a former intern at my firm thanking me and my business partner “for being such fantastic mentors.&# And that being a mentor, either formally or informally, really does make a difference and can touch people’s lives.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

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Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

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Ask a colleague, friend, coach or mentor to hold you accountable this year and help you stay on track with your own personal navigation system. Related posts: Mentorship and success go hand in hand “A mentor is someone who allows you to see the. Here’s my suggestion: find a “GPS Buddy”.

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Ask for a Promotion :: Women on Business

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Be an Advocate for Yourself A recent Catalyst study demonstrates that mentoring does not help. You’ll Never Know Until You Ask Is No really NO or is it an opportunity?

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What Women Leaders Bring to the New Decade :: Women on Business

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We can spend time being thoughtful and finding those coming u behind us to mentor, to dialogue with and also to listen to. It’s interesting that as a species we not only can think, we can think about what we are thinking. This is our time to reach out to our men, to our colleagues, to those junior to us and talk about what we have learned.

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The Prodigal Daughters of Business :: Women on Business

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Cathy Curtis—who pilots her own investment advisory firm specializing in the finances of women out of the San Francisco Bay Area—made the personal choice to “go it alone” and become her “own boss”. “I love to see more women invest in themselves” she says, “and determine the course of their own lives.”

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Advocacy to Shift Culture

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As an executive coach, I often see highly skilled, talented women plateau in an organization largely due to lack of mentoring. Sharon OConnor January 12th, 2011 at 7:39 pm Thanks for raising awareness on this topic.