Mentors and Mentoring
Check out this article in Forbes driving the point home about mentoring.
Be a mentor! If you are a B-W student or Alumnus, you can be a mentor by signing up at the B-W Career Network. Make a contribution back to your school. Help a current student with life and career opportunities!
You can also become a member of our chapter of ABWA. Come to meetings and make it known that you are available to be a mentor. It is my mission to have mentors for the student members. This was so vital to me when I graduated with my bachelors, and is still a vital resource for my continued growth, even now as a student of Masters of Business.
Find a mentor! Baldwin-Wallace has a couple ways to get a mentor. If you are a student looking for a job, sign up on the B-W Career Network. This is where I found the mentor that I wrote about to B-W Career Services. This is such a great service!
I was also lucky to find a mentor in my MBA program at B-W. Peter Kelly, Director of the MBA programs, invited MBA students to get together with a small group of mentors. Only a few students were selected due to the limited number of mentors. I met with Debora Lyons, Chief Human Resources Officer of Westfield Group, who was so gracious with her time. She let me conduct an informational interview with her. She showed me around Westfield Insurance, and she even let me take some personality tests to help me discover what I wanted to do with my life. Her time and feedback were and are so important to me.
I also have mentors at ABWA. Lucille Windgard and the other ABWA members of Women with Vision and Women of Wisdom have been such wonderful contributions to my growth.
And I cannot forget the unofficial mentors that I have! My swim coach from high school (thank you Jane Schweitzer!) and the many wonderful members of the local Beachwood Chamber of Commerce! Because of chamber’s “Job Seekers” program and efforts and encouragement of Wendy Schwartz, I was able to join as a temporary member and meet new people, learn networking skills, and create opportunities for myself. Wendy’s Job Seekers program helped me to break out of my shell. She offered creative ways to search and follow up with prospective jobs. And the members of the chamber were also very generous with their advice and contacts! You would be surprised at how wonderful and giving people can be. These are the unofficial mentors that YOU can find too!
Tony Robbins says if you want to be successful, find a person you admire and model after her/him. This is an indirect way to get a mentor, but a direct way to achieve success!
Mentors can be someone you ask, or someone you don’t even know personally. Mentors are helpful in your career path! Find one today, or BE one today! You can do this by joining our ABWA chapter, and many other ways!
