Mentor Resources:
Great Article: How Can I Make the Most of a Mentor Relationship?
From Business Women Connect. Dedicated to the development and connection of our community of
women. The editorial found here is designed to provide information, inspiration, and connections.
Through mentoring programs, range of articles from marketing your business, creating a new job, balancing
your finances, keeping your health a priority and our online business directory allowing you to find other women
with whom to do business, they remain committed to personal and professional growth.
Athena Foundation-Athena PowerLink
Athena PowerLink is a program that unites a woman-owned business with a group of local mentors who serve
as a panel of advisors. Advisors work with the protégée on her business for one year at no charge. The
protégée and her panel meet quarterly and run their meetings with the formality of a Board of Directors
meeting. To qualify for participation, the protégée needs to have been in business for at least two years, as well
as meet certain revenue thresholds. Each PowerLink program is governed locally by an interested community
organization. These organizations make use of a panel coordinator with each match to ensure an effective and
professional mentoring process.
Contact Information:
http://www.athenafoundation.org/
800-548-8247
Center for Women and Enterprise-Community Entrepreneurs Program
Community Entrepreneurs Program is an entrepreneurship training program. It is designed primarily for women
who intend to start their own business to achieve economic self-sufficiency. The program offers a modular
approach to training, which enables clients to start the program at any point and take different modules based
on their needs and prior experience. Fees for the training are offered on a sliding scale. The majority of
participants are women, although men are welcome.
Contact Information:
http://www.cweboston.org
617-536-0700
Committee of 200--Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program
Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program seeks to help women entrepreneurs take their businesses to the
next level (represented by C200 membership). Six to seven entrepreneurs who gross between $3 million and
$10 million on an annual basis are selected for the protégée class via an application process. Using a team
approach to mentoring, each protégée receives two to three mentors who serve as her advisory board.
Protégées meet with their mentors throughout the year individually and informally. Additionally, the protégée
class meets together four times a year to network and attend a two-day Teaching Institute facilitated by an
accomplished instructor and offering curriculum defined by the protégées themselves.
Contact Information:
http://www.c200.org
312-751-3477
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Great Article: How Can I Make the Most of a Mentor Relationship?
From Business Women Connect. Dedicated to the development and connection of our community of
women. The editorial found here is designed to provide information, inspiration, and connections.
Through mentoring programs, range of articles from marketing your business, creating a new job, balancing
your finances, keeping your health a priority and our online business directory allowing you to find other women
with whom to do business, they remain committed to personal and professional growth.
Athena Foundation-Athena PowerLink
Athena PowerLink is a program that unites a woman-owned business with a group of local mentors who serve
as a panel of advisors. Advisors work with the protégée on her business for one year at no charge. The
protégée and her panel meet quarterly and run their meetings with the formality of a Board of Directors
meeting. To qualify for participation, the protégée needs to have been in business for at least two years, as well
as meet certain revenue thresholds. Each PowerLink program is governed locally by an interested community
organization. These organizations make use of a panel coordinator with each match to ensure an effective and
professional mentoring process.
Contact Information:
http://www.athenafoundation.org/
800-548-8247
Center for Women and Enterprise-Community Entrepreneurs Program
Community Entrepreneurs Program is an entrepreneurship training program. It is designed primarily for women
who intend to start their own business to achieve economic self-sufficiency. The program offers a modular
approach to training, which enables clients to start the program at any point and take different modules based
on their needs and prior experience. Fees for the training are offered on a sliding scale. The majority of
participants are women, although men are welcome.
Contact Information:
http://www.cweboston.org
617-536-0700
Committee of 200--Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program
Growing Entrepreneurs Mentoring Program seeks to help women entrepreneurs take their businesses to the
next level (represented by C200 membership). Six to seven entrepreneurs who gross between $3 million and
$10 million on an annual basis are selected for the protégée class via an application process. Using a team
approach to mentoring, each protégée receives two to three mentors who serve as her advisory board.
Protégées meet with their mentors throughout the year individually and informally. Additionally, the protégée
class meets together four times a year to network and attend a two-day Teaching Institute facilitated by an
accomplished instructor and offering curriculum defined by the protégées themselves.
Contact Information:
http://www.c200.org
312-751-3477
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How do you know if you are ready to find a mentor?
Take the quiz below to find out…
Circle the appropriate answer to the question below.
1. Do you sometimes feel you wish you had someone to listen to your frustrations
about your work or profession?
Yes No
2. Are you feeling overwhelmed with the responsibilities of your job or business?
Yes No
3. At the end of the day, are you feeling like you did not accomplish very much?
Yes No
4. Do you have trouble focusing on one task and completing it?
Yes No
5. If you have a troubling relationship with someone in your office, are you comfortable
talking about that?
Yes No
6. Do you sometimes feel alone and that there is no one to support you?
Yes No
7. Are you suffering from burn out in your business or job?
Yes No
8. Are there times when you wish someone could understand what it is like to be in
your shoes?
Yes No
9. Do you have a business strategy that you would like to discuss with a person who
is not directly involved?
Yes No
10. Is managing employees or working with other employees difficult for you when
it comes to discussing sensitive issues?
Yes No
11. Are you clear about what could be holding you back from your goals?
Yes No
12. Can you clearly describe how you are different from your competitors?
Yes No
13. Do you know how you see yourself and do you think others see you the same way?
Yes No
14. Do you know what you’re best strengths are and do you think others think so, too?
Yes No
15. Do you have clear long and short-term goals?
Yes No
Scoring:
Numbers 1-10:
If you answered Yes to any of the above, a mentor could help you get on track.
Numbers 11-15:
If you answered No to any of these questions, you definitely could benefit from a
mentoring relationship.
Want to know more about mentoring? Read Linda’s article
Take the quiz below to find out…
Circle the appropriate answer to the question below.
1. Do you sometimes feel you wish you had someone to listen to your frustrations
about your work or profession?
Yes No
2. Are you feeling overwhelmed with the responsibilities of your job or business?
Yes No
3. At the end of the day, are you feeling like you did not accomplish very much?
Yes No
4. Do you have trouble focusing on one task and completing it?
Yes No
5. If you have a troubling relationship with someone in your office, are you comfortable
talking about that?
Yes No
6. Do you sometimes feel alone and that there is no one to support you?
Yes No
7. Are you suffering from burn out in your business or job?
Yes No
8. Are there times when you wish someone could understand what it is like to be in
your shoes?
Yes No
9. Do you have a business strategy that you would like to discuss with a person who
is not directly involved?
Yes No
10. Is managing employees or working with other employees difficult for you when
it comes to discussing sensitive issues?
Yes No
11. Are you clear about what could be holding you back from your goals?
Yes No
12. Can you clearly describe how you are different from your competitors?
Yes No
13. Do you know how you see yourself and do you think others see you the same way?
Yes No
14. Do you know what you’re best strengths are and do you think others think so, too?
Yes No
15. Do you have clear long and short-term goals?
Yes No
Scoring:
Numbers 1-10:
If you answered Yes to any of the above, a mentor could help you get on track.
Numbers 11-15:
If you answered No to any of these questions, you definitely could benefit from a
mentoring relationship.
Want to know more about mentoring? Read Linda’s article
The person who makes
a success of living is
the one who see his
goal steadily and aims
for it unswervingly. That
is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
a success of living is
the one who see his
goal steadily and aims
for it unswervingly. That
is dedication.
Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
| Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) |
| Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. |
| Underpromise; & overdeliver. |
| Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Albert Einstein |