By Elizabeth Wells, Senior Programme Manager – Entrepreneurship, Cherie Blair Foundation for Women –
“Amazing”…
“Opens the door to relationships that last a lifetime”…
“An incredible experience”:
These are the words of business professionals speaking of their time volunteering as mentors on the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women’s flagship online Mentoring Women in Business Programme. We have been delivering life-changing professional mentoring experiences to support women entrepreneurs around the world for over ten years now. In that time, we’ve seen first-hand how life changing these relationships can be for both mentees and mentors and have developed a robust and highly effective programme.
The programme would not be what it is, however, without its world-class mentors.
Join us as a professional mentor to create impact by empowering and releasing the potential of women entrepreneurs at a time when they need it more than ever. Find out more and apply by 15 March at https://cherieblairfoundation.org/weavementors/
By giving two hours a month of their time to mentoring women entrepreneurs, these talented professionals both contribute and benefit hugely. Mentees gain access to: business knowledge, skills, confidence, and networks; enabling them to achieve their goals, increase the revenue and profits of their businesses, create jobs, and become pioneering leaders in their communities. Mentors meanwhile experience huge rewards: developing their leadership and communication skills, growing professionally while working remotely, learning about different sectors or industries, and helping level the playing field for women in business, as well as graduating with a certificate in recognition of their achievements and commitment. Indeed, 100% of our 2019 mentors said the programme benefitted their personal and professional development.
A mentor from our most recent intake summed it up perfectly: “The Mentoring Women in Business Programme is a circle of support that empowers both mentees and mentors to be the best version of themselves.”
Now, the opportunity to be one of our mentors has emerged for professionals based in Vietnam. As part of our commitment to support 7,500 more women entrepreneurs in the country, we are incorporating mentoring into our ambitious and exciting new programme, WEAVE.
If you’re an experienced, English-speaking businessperson based in Vietnam, we invite you to become a WEAVE professional mentor and contribute your expertise to a woman entrepreneur mentee, whether it lies in planning, marketing, communications, finance, strategy, sales, accessing capital, leadership, management, negotiation or something else entirely. We also encourage businesspeople who are also able to communicate in both English and Vietnamese to join. We try to match each mentee with a mentor who has experience in the areas she wants to focus on, and welcome mentors from many different backgrounds.
This opportunity is even free-of-charge!
The 6-months of mentoring start in April 2021 and will be conducted on our brand new, bespoke platform, which will allow you and your mentee to conduct video calls in-platform, share direct messages, set, monitor and analyse their performance against their agreed goals, and easily track their individual learning progress throughout their programme journey. You will work one-to-one with your mentee, acting as a sounding board and thought partner for her and guiding her to ensure she reaches her full potential and overcomes obstacles in her way. The individual impacts of this enriching journey are tremendous, but programme participants also contribute to rebuilding the Vietnamese economy post-COVID-19, with mentors playing crucial and lasting roles in the development of SMEs that will, in turn, form great drivers of growth.
COVID-19 has threatened small businesses around the world, but mentoring can offer some solutions. Another of our recent graduate mentors told us:
“Experiencing the pandemic and the challenges with life and being able to provide emotional guidance was an invaluable aspect of this for me this year.
The program provided a truly important means of connection to others.”
Join us as a professional mentor to create impact by empowering and releasing the potential of women entrepreneurs at a time when they need it more than ever. Find out more and apply by 15 March at https://cherieblairfoundation.org/weavementors/
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