This document discusses mentoring and its importance for empowering women. It provides an overview of mentoring, including its roots in Greek mythology, definitions and perspectives from different authors, and the roles a mentor can play. It also discusses the benefits of mentoring for both mentors and mentees. Specific topics covered include women in mentoring relationships, challenges they may face, the importance of networking, and how mentoring can empower women and girls to improve their lives and communities.

1. Mentoring - empowering
women for the future
”EQUALITY MEANS
BUSINESS” Istanbul event
Istanbul Bilgi University

2. You Can Be Whatever You Want To Be
”There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you
want to be - all of the energy to do whatever you want
to do. Imagine yourself as you would like to be, doing
what you want to do, and each day, take one step
towards your dream. And though at times it may seem
too difficult to continue, hold on to your dream. One
morning you will awake to find that you are the person
you dreamed of - doing what you wanted to do - simply
because you had the courage to believe in your
potential and to hold on to your dream”
by Donna Levine

3. Roots in mythology of Greek’s
Odyseus, king of Ithaka, did hand over his son
Thelemakhos to goddess Athene, when he left to
the war of Troja. Athene took the form of
Odyseus’s friend called Mentor, the role was to
help, guide and train youngster to his task -
kingship
Greeks had very strong belief to this kind of
relationship between senior and junior, key to
civilization survival: young will learn skills,
customs and values directly from such person,
which he/she respects

4. Exercise
Think of someone who helped you to develop (or
someone who mentored you in special way)
What were your initial expectations of the person
and the relationship?
Did your expectations start out positive or grow as
the relationship started to succeed?
What were your behaviors that influenced the
positive responses of your partner?
What did this person seem to expect of you? How
did you react to these expectations?

5. GOOD MENTORS
ARE OPEN ABOUT THEMSELVES,
OPEN ABOUT THE BUSINESS,
OBTAIN FEEDBACK, PROBE,
SURPRISE THE MENTEE, ARE
COUNSELLORS, MAKE IT TWO WAY,
ARE CARING, HUMAN, AVAILABLE,
COMMITTED, GOOD LISTENERS

6. MENTORING NOWADAYS
Mentoring involves primarily listening with empathy,
sharing experience (usually mutually), professional
friendship, developing insight through reflection,
being a sounding board, encouraging. - David
Clutterbuck
Mentoring is a long term relationship that meets a
development need, helps develop full potential, and
benefits all partners, mentor, mentee and the
organisation. - Suzanne Faure

7. MENTORING NOWADAYS
Mentoring is a mutual relationship with an intentional
agenda designed to convey specific content along
with life wisdom from one individual to another.
Mentoring does not happen by accident, nor do its
benefits come quickly. - Thomas Addington and
Stephen Graves
Mentoring is a one-to-one, non-judgemental relationship
in which an individual voluntarily gives time to
support and encourage another. This is typically
developed at a time of transition in the mentee's life
and lasts for a significant and sustained period of
time. - Active Community Unit

8. A MENTOR WILL FILL MANY
DIFFERENT ROLES
– ROLE MODEL - A mentee will observe the mentor as an
adult, employee, citizen, and community member.
– ADVISOR - The mentor will provide information and
expertise in a particular area in order to aid the mentee
in making informed decisions.
– COACH - The mentor will help the student learn specific
skills about their job and the workplace.
– COUNSELOR - The mentor will have opportunities to
help the student think through career, personal, and
academic questions.
• EVALUATOR - The mentor will monitor the mentee's
performance and offer constructive feedback about his/her
progress.

9. Academic ”world”
Older students help younger students cope with peer
pressure
University alumni provide guidance to students seeking
business careers
Experienced faculty members assist their newer
colleagues, mentoring has given them a very positive
attitude to the university
Peer mentoring - two colleagues mentor each other
In academic medicine women with mentors report more
publications and more time spent on research activity
than those without mentors. Women with a role model
reported higher overall career satisfaction.

10. THE MAIN HEADINGS OF THE
MENTORING CONTRACT ARE
A ’NO FAULT’ OPT-OUT CLAUSE, A TWO-
WAY PROCESS
WHAT WE ARE PREPARED TO DO / TALK
ABOUT
EACH OTHER’S EXPECTATIONS
TIME ISSUES: HOW MUCH, WHEN, IN
WORKTIME / PLACE OR NOT
MANAGING THE LINE MANAGER
RELATIONSHIP

11. THE MAIN HEADINGS OF THE
MENTORING CONTRACT ARE
PERCEPTIONS AND SUBTLETY
COPING WHIT ENVY / GOSSIP
CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE RELATIONSHIP –
TRUST / CONFIDENCE
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
HANDLING FEEDBACK
LEARNING ABOUT OTHER ASPECTS OF THE
ORGANIZATION
• LIFE AFTER ’THE END’

12. Women and the mentoring
relationship
it has been said that women in mentoring
relationships have greater job satisfaction than
women whitout mentors
a mentor can significantly accelerate a woman’s
professional development compared to that of
women whitout mentors
mentors are important in introducing women to the
organization’s power structure, formal and
informal.
women may face different problems to men in
mentoring relationships

13. Women and the mentoring
relationship
women mentors are in short supply at very senior level.
the gender of the mentor is less important to success than
their quality as mentors.
the mentors should be aware of their own style and
behaviour and those of the mentees.
participants need to be prepared to counter office gossip and
jealousies
Women's mentoring is more about commitment than about
chemistry. It's about personal growth and development
rather than about promotions and plums. And it's more
about learning than power.

14. Thoughts of an anonymous
aborigin woman from
Australia.
"If you have come to help me, you are
vasting your time. But if you have
come because your liberation is
bound up with mine, then let us
work together"
Women executives assist other women to break the "glass
ceiling"

15. Business Mentor Program
The mentors are experienced and successful senior
business managers. Many of them are retired
from their full-time work.
The mentors are willing to offer their own
professional experience and know-how for the
benefit of small local companies and help new
entrepreneurs starting.
Cherie Blair Foundation Mentor is an unique
opportunity for supporting women entrepreneurs
across the globe and helping to close the gender
gap in the SME sector

16. Florence Awasom, Cameroon
To help others walk along a path that
they (mentors) have already
cleared. But, it is easier if you can
begin your journey on a cleared
path!"

17. 
GROUP MENTORING
Group mentoring - one mentor meets
with several mentees
Group-group peer mentoring
Can be efficient, promotes diversity
• no a vibrant culture

18. Reverse Mentoring
The more junior person is the mentor
It is usually used when elder employees need to
understand operations or technology that can be
shared by shop floor, front-line or tech-savvy
employees
It needs ability to create and maintain an attitude of
openness to the experience and dissolve the
barriers of status, power and position.

19. MIND HEART
BODY SOUL
Skills
&
Knowledge
Values
&
Beliefs
Feelings&Attitudes
Im
age&
W
ell-being

20. Networking is a prime component
In the future, information is power
The larger your Network, the better your chance
of finding out exactly what you need to know
Knowing whom to call is almost as good as
knowing!
Networkers can accumulate influence or power
by control of information and, of course, by
learning

21. Give and get information
Networking is a two-way street
A network is not a collection of business
cards, but of people.
Take the time to understand the business
of those in your network
Be careful never to burn bridges
I also have seen: rather than focusing on the strengths of what women
offer each other and using them to everyone’s advantage, efforts to
undermine talented coworkers can be evolved into an all-or-nothing-
war-like campaign and a hostile competition among women.

22. Listen and give
Listen to the people you meet to see how you
might assist them in what they do
Giving first and giving more than receiving is a
very important rule of networking
If one party does all the giving, then the
relationship will not last and the networking
ends
Networking relationships takes work and
cooperation by all parties involved

23. What do you get from learning to
network
You'll save money on advertising, since you'll get more business
from referrals.
You'll get more leads, and close deals faster.
You'll develop an "In" with people that can help you get to the
profitable "hard to reach" clients.
You'll develop strong and long lasting business relationships,
quickly and effectively.
You'll build a network of loyal contacts, who will look for ways to
send you new business.
You'll hear about profitable opportunities before they become
common knowledge. (That's an unbeatable edge!)

24. Empowering women and girls
we raise the quality of life for everyone. This
is because when women lead they not only
lead businesses, they lead in their
community, they fight for their children,
and they give voice to issues that are
important to our collective future -- like
education and health care

25. So, mentoring has very many
faces!
Thank you for your attention -
"the future is one minute from
now"!