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EMPOWER-U MENTORING CIRCLES

POWER’s Empower-U Mentoring Circle Program is a unique opportunity to develop future leaders in a confidential and intimate forum, which allows for the free exchange of lessons learned from experience, first-hand advice from today’s leaders and discussions around topics that will accelerate women’s full potential in the workplace.

Who should Enroll?

Professional women of all levels and generations with the desire to advance into higher levels of leadership roles. Women interested in building relationships while expanding their network to different companies, professions, region’s trailblazers and emerging leaders.

What is Mentoring?

• A practice that empowers individuals to achieve professional and personal goals with the support and guidance of another individual who has a different level of experience.
• An opportunity for individuals to increase self-awareness, maximize potential, to develop skills, improve performance and become the best version of themselves.
• A focused, results-oriented relationship that requires confidentiality, openness, courage and commitment to development goals.

What is Mentoring Circle?

A mentoring circle is a support group with the same developmental goals as traditional mentoring, but offers more diverse perspectives, advice and insight.

Advantages of Group Mentoring

• Hearing stories and experiences from all mentees and mentors allow for multiple perspectives, greater advice, and a more diverse array of ideas.
• Expands your professional and personal support networks.
• Allows you to learn from the challenges, success and failure of others.
• Encourages teamwork and creative problem solving.
• Increases confidence and improves leadership skills
• Builds an affinity group that establishes bonds which last beyond the program’s duration
• Provides an opportunity to develop meeting facilitation skills.

Structure of Sessions

• Mentees and mentors are expected to arrive at the designated meeting at 4:15pm.  It’s essential that you arrive on time.
• The first 15 minutes will be used for networking and settling in
• Each mentee will give a 1-minute update on current events going on in her personal and/or professional life, along with a challenge associated with the discussion topic of the day.
• The month’s assigned mentee facilitators will then introduce the topic and begin the discussion on the assigned topic and any reading material or video that she emailed out beforehand.  From there, the group will discuss specific personal challenges related to the topic, look to the mentors for advice and continue the conversation until 6:30pm.
• The mentee facilitators will make sure that the discussion stays on topic and that everyone is contributing.  She will step in if a mentee is going off topic or monopolizing the conversation.  The mentors will also be available to assist the mentee facilitators if necessary.
• In some sessions, we may have a subject matter expert guest mentor join the conversation and offer advice.
• After each session, the facilitators will be expected to post on social media.

The Value of Mentorship Empowers Women with Knowledge.

Circle discussions include topics such as:

• How to set up your own board of directors.
• Identify and leverage your worth.
• Enhance leadership skills to take your career to the next level.
• Gender Differences; understand the challenges women still face.
• Art of tactful self-promotion & developing your personal brand.
• Build important and meaningful peer relationships.